I was on lighting assistant duty today as Alma worked the camera with the adorable little Jamie. I did Jamie’s parents wedding in 2010 so it was great to be in touch again to do more photos. I used an Elinchrome Ranger Quadra with a softbox for lighting and Alma took the photos using a Canon 5D Mkii and a 50mm F1.2 lens. Post production was with Lightroom 4 and 3 of my new presets.
Black and white of my good friend Christine taken in Cork city a few years ago. Christine is a talented singer/songwriter from west Cork, check out the you tube clip below 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQt8mn96yQ
Im nearly finished the previous wedding edit and developing, I will do a post on it very soon. I thought I might share an image captured by Alma Perissinotti on the day
on the return from the summit
clouds coming over the Piltri top
the view of the town from the Rufugio
light in the valley on the east side of Piltri
climbing the scree or loose stones on the final climb to the top
the beautiful Alma Perissinotti struggling on the last climb as the clouds rolled in and over the top
loose scree on the approach to the summit
the girls on top
Piltri view east
view of El Bolson from the top of Piltri...almost...before the clouds obscured the amazing view
view from Piltri towards Lago Puelo then Chile
A selection of images from a climb up Piltri overlooking El Bolsón, Argentina
Check out the blog post my Alma from the same trip
http://www.almaperissinotti.com/2012/03/2260-msnm/
I really love the last one, the feeling of the clouds rolling past
Information about the Rufugio is here http://www.bolsonweb.com/aventura/piltriquitron.html
Some recent work in Chile with my infrared Canon 5D, I got the camera converted to deep monochrome infrared by Lifepixel labs in the US, so the camera is just a monochrome camera sensitive to the higher infrared wavelengths. It is a complex camera to use, it suffers badly from sun flare, exposure is at best a guess, and sometimes the center of the frame is too hot…so its a horrid camera to use but I love it, no more the perfect everything digital, for being on holiday it is a breath of fresh air, Im having fun.
new black and white setting im working on, very high contrast with micro detail, I think it works well with the above pictures, it does use about 8 layers in photoshop, so its not fast but whats wrong with taking your time now and then?
Tato
I have ordered some prints from Ilford, traditional silver halide prints from digital files, I have chosen the above picture as it contains some testing tones and I’m interested to see how the digital print service from Ilford copes with the task. I will do a review here of the print service as soon as I get the test prints back. Im hoping next year to open my own printing studio, many years ago I used have an Epson 4000, I loved the quality, especially the black and white, bronzing was an issue on anything except matt paper and the print heads had a bad habit of getting clogged….and a set of ink was over €1000…ouch, I then had a Canon IPF5000, it definitely had a slight colour advantage over the Epson as it was new technology but for the life of me I could not get consistant grey scale images no matter how I profiled and fiddled with the settings. Im not going to get a large format printer for the foreseeable future, its just not worth the overheads as regards running cost when most of the time my print orders and below A3 in size and of small quantities, but I do miss having the ability to deliver a finished print quickly as compared waiting on shipment from a lab be it in Scotland or US
