In House Performance (First Attempts and Performance Photography)

I have some buddies that like to get together from time to time and preform at parties. I've had an interest in getting to performance photography, so I lugged along my camera this past weekend. Funny thing is I decided to leave the digital at home and use my junky old EOS 3000 shooing Ilford XP-5 C-41 process black and white. Just cause I was feeling nostaglic. Well the results far exceeded my expectations. Here are my favorite shots from that night.

Great first attempt, First and last images are really nice, and i really like the Color tone(Looks like a faint shade of Sepia?) and framing is really good too.

Keep at it

livewire-photography.com wrote in post #2703476
Great first attempt, First and last images are really nice, and i really like the Color tone(Looks like a faint shade of Sepia?) and framing is really good too.

Keep at it

Thanks for the compliments. The images colour tone was done in CS2 in duotone mode. I think the colours were black mauve and gold, but yeah it did give a slight sepia type shade to the shots.

I do plan on trying to keep this up. Shooting in a house is easy, not sure what my results will be once I try doing it at real venues.

Holy crap I love #1. The detail in the dreads is great! Hmm....where is my old film camera??

Cheers!
Jennifer

Great tone, seems to really fit the mood of the shots. #1 is awesome, very casual, intimate image

Thanks Jennifer and bacchanal!

#1 and 4 are nice, but it does look like you used a bit too much NR...

René Damkot wrote in post #2706632
#1 and 4 are nice, but it does look like you used a bit too much NR...

Thanks for the comment Rene. I do know what you mean, these are the first few images I processed on a LCD monitor. I don't have my old monitor set up at the moment. Looking back, they're not too bad before I did the a levels adjustment and the tritoning. I think this is what caused the skin tones to look so so flat. Maybe I'll have to give them another shot with the old CRT. At least I'm assuming you're referring to the smoothness and flatness of the skin... otherwise I think the images look fine personally.

nice job on these

aacmckay wrote in post #2707545
At least I'm assuming you're referring to the smoothness and flatness of the skin...

Yup...

René Damkot wrote in post #2707728
Yup...

i'm surprised you and me Rene are the only one's that see this. there is almost no shading on any of the faces. Just flat white. compare that to the shades on the pants and the arms on pic #1 and the backgrounds.

#4 is very striking but almost, not quite, but almost looks cartoonish with the eyes, nose, etc. looking almost drawn, against the stark white, balloon face. skin on hands really blown white also. again, compare the lack of shades of the person vs. the background.

and i can tell the guy is going to be defensive ... so i hope he pays attention here .... cause all that is fine. that's absolutely fine if that's the effect you are going for.

the stark, exaggeratedness of the guy in #4 makes him really pop out from the background. it's definitely an attention getting effect.

what perplexes me is if people are honestly saying the images look natural, uneffected. i man is #1 really an albino rastafarian

René Damkot wrote in post #2707728
Yup...

Guess I'll get the ole 19 inch CRT out and give it another go. I knew that the response of the LCD I was using was flat on the bight end (on a standard cal chart you can't distinquish between the 4 brightest whites. I knew it was flat on the monitor, But I though I had backed off enough to have some detail there. Guess I was wrong. No more using that LCD for processing :P

CanonXTuser wrote in post #2707987
i'm surprised you and me Rene are the only one's that see this. there is almost no shading on any of the faces. Just flat white. compare that to the shades on the pants and the arms on pic #1 and the backgrounds.

#4 is very striking but almost, not quite, but almost looks cartoonish with the eyes, nose, etc. looking almost drawn, against the stark white, balloon face. skin on hands really blown white also. again, compare the lack of shades of the person vs. the background.

and i can tell the guy is going to be defensive ... so i hope he pays attention here .... cause all that is fine. that's absolutely fine if that's the effect you are going for.

Defensive? :P No I totally agree. I checked these out on another monitor and I agree. I have images saved at every processing point while creating these. So I'll set up my monitor and go back as far as I need to in the processing to get some details back in the skin tones.

CanonXTuser wrote in post #2707987
the stark, exaggeratedness of the guy in #4 makes him really pop out from the background. it's definitely an attention getting effect.

what perplexes me is if people are honestly saying the images look natural, uneffected. i man is #1 really an albino rastafarian

My buddy Dave isn't really super dark skinned. It is a bit blown, (okay it is blown :P) Back to the "darkroom" for me!

aacmckay wrote in post #2708269
Defensive? :P No I totally agree. I checked these out on another monitor and I agree. I have images saved at every processing point while creating these. So I'll set up my monitor and go back as far as I need to in the processing to get some details back in the skin tones.

My buddy Dave isn't really super dark skinned. It is a bit blown, (okay it is blown :P) Back to the "darkroom" for me!

that's a great attitude. and again, i think the pics are striking. there is nothing wrong with processing them that way. it's a really eye catching look.

i just was sympathizing with rene wondering why me and him seemed to be the only ones that thought the skin/faces looked really processed/effected.

CanonXTuser wrote in post #2708301
that's a great attitude. and again, i think the pics are striking. there is nothing wrong with processing them that way. it's a really eye catching look.

Well I was trying to get some brilliant skin tones, but I didn't want to completely lose the shading in the face. Just slightly more than what I was wanting.