p.1 #1 · Medium Format Portrait and People Image Thread
Not sure where this thread will go, but let’s give it a shot. While there is already a general medium format thread and camera specific threads, this one is dedicated to portrait and people photography shot on medium format cameras. Subject matter can vary, but people should remain the primary focus.
To keep things open and inclusive, images taken with any medium format camera and any lens—including adapted lenses—are welcome.
Please post your people/portrait images here and say which camera & lens was used. Feel free to cross-post them in other or your favorite image threads as well.
I'll kick things off with one from a recent portrait session.
p.1 #10 · Medium Format Portrait and People Image Thread
This image always looks to me like the individual panes of the window have been Photoshopped, but, fun fact: they haven't! That's an artifact of mixing very bright outdoor light with a lot of indoor fill from a beauty dish (which removes some of the shadows you're expecting to see from the outdoor light). The weather was bad the day I photographed the model (stage name XLCR Moon), so I did have to come back and shoot a plate on a sunnier day, but I replaced the entire upper half of the background in one piece specifically to not make the window pane artifact any worse. P.S. Shot this on a tripod and left the camera in place so that lining up the plate wouldn't be too difficult, luckily it was only about two days of a tripod sitting in the middle of my floor until I got a day where the sun cooperated!
GFX 100 | GF 32-64 f/4R WR | Mola Demi beauty dish to camera left a foot or two above her head, and a 10 degree grid behind her on each side. My only regret is not gelling the grids so that they looked a little more like sunlight coming through the window.
p.1 #12 · Medium Format Portrait and People Image Thread
weezintrumpete wrote:
My wife on our babymoon.
GFX 50S + Mitakon 65/1.4
I always read the "which lens has the most 3D pop" thread here on FM and think to myself the answer was, is, and always will be - the Mitakon 65mm. There is no lens single on digital that can produce this look to the level it does. Some get close, but nothing matches it.
p.1 #15 · Medium Format Portrait and People Image Thread
mard22 wrote:
I always read the "which lens has the most 3D pop" thread here on FM and think to myself the answer was, is, and always will be - the Mitakon 65mm. There is no lens single on digital that can produce this look to the level it does. Some get close, but nothing matches it.
Totally agree! I posted on that thread saying the Zeiss FE 110mm F/2 was for me the lens with the most "3D pop" It was, until I got the Mitakon 65mm F/1.4 recently for my X2DII which has given me most surreal look of any lens I've ever used. I call it my Paolo Roversi lens.
p.1 #16 · Medium Format Portrait and People Image Thread
I thought I'd bless y'all with a self-portrait next. This is my 40th birthday (so nearly two years ago) but I never got around to posting it anywhere, so. Plain backdrop because self portraits are hard enough to pull together!
The gel on the rim lights is from Lee Filters, it's called Moroccan Pink. I've got it turned down really low here, but if you're ever trying to mimic that sort of warm and gentle feel of classic Playboy, try putting a heavy dose of this gel on your fill lights (and you're welcome for me not trying to pose or dress like a Playboy model).
