Stu is my friend from back home in the UK although he lives here now. We hadn't seen each other in about 5 years and bumped into each other in Sydney, which was very bizarre but amazing to see him again. Tori is his fiancé.
I captured this image on Saturday with my Tachi 8x10 using TMax 400 (pushed to 800) after spending an afternoon mostly with a beer in my hand. So I was surprised that a. the exposure was pretty much dead on, b. it's pretty sharp (I didn't use a loupe), c. the grain is very fine for 400 film pushed to 800. I developed it in D76 for 10 minutes.
This is the first photograph I've shot featuring people, using a large format camera so overall I'm really pleased with the result. Unfortunately Tori is a fair bit softer than Stu - I shot this at f/11 as light was dropping and really expected the depth of field to be far more shallow than it is. I'll print it at 13x19 and see how it turns out - if Tori is too soft at that size, I'll try it at 8x10 and I don't think it will be too noticeable.
Edit. just opened up the scanner to scan another negative and noticed the negative was slightly curved on the scanner bed. So that might explain the softness on Tori. Oh for a drum scanner!
