Film portraiture using only natural light

[Jonathan R]

gelatine silverprint (heliar 50mm f2) leica m2

Amsterdam, Nassaukerk, 2023

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Nice, but ... natural light?

 

[Erik van Straten]

Nice, but ... natural light?

Did you ever see unnatural light?

 

[Jonathan R]

Did you ever see unnatural light?

Silly me. The OP should have just called the thread ‘Film portraiture’.

 

[Bill Jones]

Did you ever see unnatural light?

Erik,

We differentiate between natural and artificial light.

Bill

 

[Keith]

There is a big difference between natural and unnatural light. You only have to set the white balance on a digital camera to daylight and take a pic under incandescent light to see that!

 

[Darthfeeble]

Oops, neglected to notice film was required.

 

[Erik van Straten]

silver gelatine print (color-skopar 50mm f2.5) leica lll

Nijverdal, 2008

 

[Dervla]

a housemate in San Francisco

He would bake sour dough bread, make sandwiches, wrap them, put them in a basket, cover them with a cloth napkin, and walk around selling the sandwiches. I think he went to offices.

The photograph was taken at a picnic in Golden Gate Park, 1977

Ektachrome, Canon FTbn and Canon FD 100mm f/2.8 SSC

 

[Glenn2]

Window light. M4, 35mm Summilux

 

[John Bragg]

Wood Nymph 2 by E.J. Bragg, on Flickr

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (cooke amotal 50mm f2) leica mp

C. de R., 2023

 

[d__b]

Leica M4-P, Zeiss Planar 50mm f/2.0, Ilford HP5+

Some scans from my latest roll of film by David B, on Flickr

Some scans from my latest roll of film by David B, on Flickr

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (hektor 50mm f2.5) leica ll

Babruysk, 2002

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (nokton f1.1) leica m2

Amsterdam, 2024

 

[yossi]

Leica M6/ltm Nikkor-S.C 5cm f1.4. Kodak double-X in D96.

 

[AntonioC]

Nikon F5 24mm f/2.8 Ilford HP5+ @1600ISO

 

[Mackinaw]

Leica MP with Canon 50/0.95. Efke 25 film. Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan at a 1920's festival.



Jim B.

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (black/nickel sonnar 1:1,5 f=5cm Carl Zeiss Jena Nr.1628901) nikon s2

Dutch painter Kees Nevenzel (2023)

 

[Erik van Straten]

I really love the Nokton 50mm f1.1. The image quality is much more "classic" than that of the new Nokton 50mm f1.

gelatin silver print (nokton 50mm f1.1) leica m2

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (summicron rigid 50mm f2) leica m3

Babruysk, 2005