{"id":13070,"date":"2023-06-08T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=13070"},"modified":"2023-06-11T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:25:47","slug":"remember-when-a-portrait-sitting-a-portrait-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=13070","title":{"rendered":"“Remember when\u2026” (before the grab a selfie) there was the Portrait Sitting\/Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

“was a time\u2026” when a subject came to the large, studio portrait camera
\nfor a “portrait sitting” with the photographer and camera; or before the easel of the painter.<\/p>\n

Those 8×10 or 5×7 film cameras had “swing;”
\nwhich allowed the film plane, lens plane, and the plane of the subject’s face,
\nto maintain focus of both the subject’s eyes,
\neven though one eye may be further from the lens than the other;
\nand the large format, longish focal length lenses had very limited depth of field.<\/p>\n

This morning, after I completed my gardening task, Dolly Stokes invited me in,
\nto see Ron Stokes’ paintings. A lovely art collection; each with a story; of course.<\/p>\n

And I asked Dolly if she might “sit” for me for a portrait study;
\nas well as a proof of concept in the use of my imagist-swing-tilt-shift-contraption
\nto achieve classical portraits. She graciously agreed.<\/p>\n

Investing time used to be an important part of the way we created photographs.
\nTime to find the light, angle, point of view, manually adjust camera movements to arrive at\u2026
\nthe one, exposure on a large sheet of film.
\nAnd while we made these fine adjustments we also had time to get to know our subjects.
\nNot only how they looked in beautiful light; but also time to talk to them; and more importantly:
\nallow them to talk\u2026 allow them to reflect\u2026 much beautiful light reflects off a face\u2026
\na subject’s thought streams, if allowed the time, can reflect through their eyes.
\n“Windows to the soul.” It’s been said.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(click image for larger view)
\nThe imagist-swing-tilt-shift-contraption: with Leica SL, and the 1970 Leitz Elmar 1:3.5 \/ 65.
\nNorth window light, 11ish, Exposure: ASA 800, 1\/60th second, wide open @ f:3.5. It works.\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>And what a marvelous “talk-time” we had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“was a time\u2026” when a subject came to the large, studio portrait camera for a “portrait sitting” with the photographer and camera; or before the easel of the painter. Those 8×10 or 5×7 film cameras had “swing;” which allowed the film plane, lens plane, and the plane of the subject’s face, to maintain focus of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13081,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions\/13081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}