With lenses like the Sony FE 24mm 1.4 GM, Sigma 35mm 1.2 Art DG DN, Laowa 35mm 0.95 Argus and the Sony FE 50mm 1.2 GM in the E-mount lens lineup and the ongoing Instragram hype it might be a good time to talk a bit about environmental portraits.
What is an environmental portrait and what is the difference compared to a normal portrait? Which lenses work best? Which mistakes I made in the past but you can already avoid today?
These are the questions I will try to answer in this article.
In early 2023 I managed to buy two rolls of the ORWO Wolfen NC 500 color negative film and it is something special for several reasons, so let’s have a closer look. Processing (ECN-2) and scanning was done at Silbersalz35 in Germany.
Minolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 40mm 1.4 MC | f/5.6 | Wolfen 500 NCMinolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 40mm 1.4 MC | f/11 | Wolfen 500 NC ECN-2Minolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 40mm 1.4 MC | f/5.6 | Wolfen 500 NC ECN-2Minolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 40mm 1.4 MC | f/4.0 | Wolfen 500 NC ECN-2Minolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 40mm 1.4 MC | f/11 | Wolfen 500 NC ECN-2
After buying the Leica M6 I bought whatever films I could find and among those also was an Agfa APX400 black and white film. It was lying in the fridge for more than a year before I finally conviced myself to use it. Processing and scanning was done at urbanfilmlab in Germany.
The pictures you see in this article are from 1 roll.
Minolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 35mm 1.2 III | f/5.6 | APX400Minolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 35mm 1.2 III | f/1.2 | APX400Minolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 40mm 1.4 Nokton Classic | f/1.4 | APX400Minolta CLE | Voigtländer VM 35mm 1.2 III | f/2.8 | APX400
The Viltrox AF 85mm f/1.8 STM ED IF Z mount is an autofocus mid-range telephoto, which is popular for portrait photography on full-frame cameras. Viltrox originally made this lens for Sony E-mount cameras, but later they managed to improve and produce it also for Fuji X, Nikon Z, and Canon RF mounts. Viltrox is the only manufacturer that has been able to produce Nikon Z mount lenses with full lens-camera communication and autofocus in the most common focal lengths. 85mm is a focal length that seems easier for manufacturers to design and make lenses with good optical qualities. There are quite a number of those nice and sharp lenses available and it seems that the price, in relation to how good/fast they are, goes up exponentially. Let’s see how good Viltrox has done with this one!
Sample Images
Nikon Z6 | Viltrox 85/1.8 Z | f/1.8Nikon Z6 | Viltrox 85/1.8 Z | f/1.8Nikon Z6 | Viltrox 85/1.8 Z | f/1.8Nikon Z6 | Viltrox 85/1.8 Z | f/1.8Nikon Z6 | Viltrox 85/1.8 Z | f/1.8
Sony A7III | Canon EF 50mm 1.2 L USM | f/1.2 | Cobalt Elite Portra 400 NB
I already wrote an article on Cobalt’s products here, but in the meantime they released a new line of “Elite Film Emulations”, covering some of my favorite films from the Analogue Adventures, and asked me if I want to have a look at those as well, so here we are.
Sony α | Leica M | Nikon F/Z New article every week
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