Portraits Taken on a Hasselblad

Justin Aguirre

Justin Aguirre

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My friend wants to become a screenwriter so I arranged to do a little photoshoot with her on the matter. I'm still really diggin' the look my Hasselblad creates, so I decided to use that instead of my Olympus OM. She wanted the photos to be in black and white so I chose to go with Kodak Tri-X 320. I've never shot Tri-X before but I am glad I did. I love the tones and grain this film produces. Enjoy.

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Really nice shots! Love the feel, she looks like an artist at work.

Love that stock too. Which body and lens? Available light or did you light it?

Dan
 
Thanks for the comments guys.

Dan: The body was the 2000fc and the lens was a F 80mm f2.8. The light was from a modified natural source from the ceiling fan. I wasn't getting a decent level so I changed out the 40 watt bulbs for 100. I did a second setup as well with her in front of a closed window. I'll post those if you want to see them too. :)
 
We used to rate Tri-X at 400, sometimes push it to 800 or 1600 with Microdol. Ah the good old days. I thought TMax had pushed it off the shelves for the most part. Tri-X had a great look and I did some great stuff with it, but TMax gave better subtlety in the shadows.

Nice lookin shots though. Never did get used to the square format of the hassys. Always wanted to try large format, but never could pull the trigger. Shot with a Medium format Pentax for a while.. SLR on steroids!

Man I miss film sometimes.
 
Film is so good....

I miss shooting on it... Though a really good DSLR comes so close....
 
This is the second setup we did that night. Shot it in front of my bedroom window with a 100 watt clamp light off camera to the right of the lamp for some extra punch. I didn't realize it at the time but if you scroll down slowly the four photos sort of form a story on how a script is written. Enjoy

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The Hassy (Zeiss) lenses have such nice contrast. Even though I adore my Bronnies and Mamiyas, I always envy what the Zeiss Hassy lenses can do for a print. It was the right choice shooting with the Hassy - the 80mm gives you a shortened DOF versus a normal lens on your 35mm olympus.

I don't mind 6x6 at all. It's the only time I ever get to use a square format in anything. It's kind of a pain to turn a 645 camera vertical sometimes.

What I like about all my film cameras is that they have wonderful eye relief - I can use the viewfinders with my glasses. I just bought a Sony A200, man I hate the tiny viewfinder! Even the Nikon D90 isn't that much better for eye relief.
 
Nice shots, but I like the first batch much better because the 3/4 angle composition is much more interesting than flat head-on in these, but they are still good.

Do you realize if you cropped out your friend, you have shot an almost perfect Kodak grayscale chip chart with those blinds?

Dan
 
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