Look forward to seeing those! !

Thanks Brian

Posing?

I just ask them to do different things....

Its hard to explain here but there are ways of getting people to do stuff without too much trouble.

Its psychology with a bit of flattery rolled in for good measure

If you didnt pose them the photos would be very static and poor

A few more from the Porta 160 roll

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Just seeing this now guys. Thanks for the comments and advice

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Stick one of your cameras on P mode with the kit zoom so you can concentrate on composition and relax.

with the other body sporting the 50 - 200mm make some room between you and the model and aim to shoot around the 175mm mark with that lens at F4.5 or whatever its widest aperture is,

Trust me you will be fine - just go with the flow. Shooting models is fun and the more you both relax the better the shots will be

all this time spent talking about, with what you take a photo, is time lost on taking a photo.

snorefest

Here are some other shots from my roll of Portra 160

I am enjoying the angle and close proximity I am getting with the 50mm 1.7 and the colours the portra gives you.

As mentioned in the other Portra thread anyone got any tips on blowing dust when handling negs etc?

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Thanks very much Johnathan - very kind words.

I am really enjoying shooting film at the moment and for my portraits its just fab.

As for the over-powering colours that are warm and cool in others - I just shoot and dont worry anymore about the outcome! For months I was coming home and tinkering with my RAW files for ridiculous amounts of time. The joy of this Portra film is that when the sun is shining the colours just explode. The day these were shot it was very cloudy but thats my fav conditions to be honest - less glare on the face etc

As for the scanning J?

I scan them on an Epson V500 scanner that I find to be terrific. I just set them in and scan at 3200 DPI

All I am doing in Lightroom is cropping the image slightly.

One thing that really IS annoying me though is the dust and hairs that are appearing on my neg uploads. Need to get myself a good rocket blower!

I really appreciate the comments mate.

Just scanned these images in tonight and I think I have found my fav film for portraits. I genuinely prefer these over all the digital images I have taken over the last 2 years. You just cant beat those skin tones.

Here are just three images that I have scanned tonight - with more to follow.

I really am in a quandry about what portrait lens to buy when the 50 1.7 offers great dynamics like this. What a lens...

(all images with MZ-6 and M 50mm 1.7)



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