Conceptual Portraiture: Medium Format Portraiture

We were introduced to medium format camera's which appeared in the 60's. 
These camera's were much smaller than large format camera's this meant photographers could break away from the studio and go out into the streets and discover more locations which created the 60's street cool.
The camera upgraded double slides to a roll of film which meant taking photographs was more faster resulting in a faster workflow, more photographs to be taken and experimenting. This also meant that the photographer could interact more with the sitter.  


Some pictures of the camera we used (Zenza Bronica):

The film: 

When taking a picture you have to take the metal slide out. 

We then went outside and took photographs.

We also took some photographs in the studio.

We used a light meter before taking each photograph.

It was fun using these camera's as it was different to the camera's now. It was difficult remember to take out the metal slide before taking a photograph and not being able to see the image taken afterwards. 

This is the negative we used but as it was very light it was hard to get a right exposure that wouldn't be too dark on the face or the background. 

After many tries and using the filters on the enlargers we found that a 12 second exposure and having the magenta up to 165 worked best.