Portrait with Butterflies

This is a portrait I took in the late 1990s in natural light indoors. This was taken on an upstairs landing of a wide staircase in late afternoon with a north western exposure in a big old house near the shore in Lynn, Massachusetts. The light was the golden glow of the late afternoon sun filtered through a stained glass window at a landing of a beautiful, wide, paneled staircase...

 

The camera is a Nikon FT 35 millimeter film SLR camera with a Nikon 43-86mm zoom lens. I enjoyed using it for portraits.

 

I believe I used Kodachrome II film. This digital version was scanned from a 3 x 4 inch print on Kodak paper. The effect is like a Botticelli painting.

 

I am now out west using a Canon digital SLR. I don't see this pleasing, warm, and generous quality of light in Tucson, and neither does the camera. I am not sure that eliminating film was an advance in the state of the art form.

 

I have an adapter that enables using my old Nikon lenses on a Canon DSLR camera body.

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Cecily

 

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