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Nikkor 105/2.5 Image from 1987 Agfachrome 50
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:47 am    Post subject: Nikkor 105/2.5 Image from 1987 Agfachrome 50 Reply with quote

This was from my fashion days in Milano 1987.


This was in the days when everything had to be perfect- in-camera. Retouching was *very* expensive and frowned upon by clients.


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perfect! That's it... Surprised


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

show off Razz Laughing

Looks lovely. Smile


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Classical perfection!
Agfachrome 50, Kodachrome 25... almost no option for error, making it more meritorious.


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow! MORE!!! beautiful!


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Attila wrote:
Wow! MORE!!! beautiful!


+1


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

looks good..


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent portrait. You have frozen her beauty - I wonder what she looks like now, 25 years later.


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ISO 50.............and now we're in the realms of cheap compacts giving us 6400 and more. You had to work for images like that, you had to know what you were doing.


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fashion photographer, in Milan, in the eighties.

It must have been fun!


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aanything wrote:
Fashion photographer, in Milan, in the eighties.

It must have been fun!


Well, I moved to Milano, knowing no one, speaking broken Italian with a one-way ticket and limited funds.
My friend the makeup artist, was with me and the first three months were fairly tough. After that, I was able to pay the bills but had to hustle.
It was a great experience and the Italians were very nice to me.

The model was from Sweden, a very nice girl.

We used to shoot beauty tests every Thursday night at our tiny flat. I went from having a 3000 sq. foot studio in the US to a tiny, tiny flat in Milano. I learned how to work in very small places.

Yes, one had to be spot on with this film. At some point I'll dig into my archive and post more fashion/beauty work.
Thanks for your kind comments, guys!


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Look forward you archive , exciting ... thank you!


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, 100x better than retouched shit of today!

Minus clarity, liquify, airbrush etc. have ruined it in recent years.


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very good.....but surprised you chose Agfa instead of Ektachrome.


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

when I was living in Cologne I always used Agfa... They had professional series that was perfect for portraits. I was buying always a box while it didn't come in less then 24 rolls (I guess intended for pro's). Also slide rolls from the same series (silver packaging) was amazing and anyway Leverkusen is next to Cologne then it was easy to get them straight from the factory if you knew someone who worked there, and I knew someone... Wink


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

great one! how did you scan it ?


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Esox lucius wrote:
Wow, 100x better than retouched shit of today!
Minus clarity, liquify, airbrush etc. have ruined it in recent years.


Yep... they had to do everything with the light...
wait a minute... isn't that what a photographer is supposed to do, anyway? Twisted Evil


PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark, that's a wonderful photography !

This afternoon, I've received a Nikkor-P 105mm f2.5, the old version (sonnar design) and just took one photo of my daughter.
My lens was made between 1968 and 1970.


PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excalibur wrote:
Very good.....but surprised you chose Agfa instead of Ektachrome.


In the US, I was always a die-hard Fujichrome fan. Ektachrome was always of the cold side, green/blue. Not good if you are a fashion/people shooter. When I moved to Milano, I found that Fujichrome was very yellow in their chemistry. Ekachrome was expensive and Agfachrome 50 fit my style and technique (the slower the film the better).

Thanks for all your nice comments everyone. Much appreciated.

IIRC, this image was a drum scan.


PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent work Mark! I love that un-shopped look a lot!
Agfachrome 50 was my fav film year back!


PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was in Milano in the 80's, but I never could take a shot like that! Shocked Shocked W2onderful work Mark


patrickh


PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Patrick, Klaus! I still shoot like that, making sure that everything is as perfect as I can make it- in-camera.


PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kram wrote:
Thanks Patrick, Klaus! I still shoot like that, making sure that everything is as perfect as I can make it- in-camera.

Exactly my style still today!


PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I try to do the same.
I don't want to tell myself to shoot thinking "you'll see after how to arrnge things". It's always better when everything is correct at the very moment you pish the button.

As Poilu asked, Mark how did you scan it ?


PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Olivier wrote:
As Poilu asked, Mark how did you scan it ?


I had this one drum scanned as it is part of one of a fine art piece.