Alternative Process
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Baking the Cake
Friday’s trip to Central Camera made for fun weekend work in the darkroom. It’s nice to have chemistry. Now for some scanning. darkroom #blackandwhitephotography #largeformatphotography #largeformat #largeformatportrait #film #filmisnotdead Continue reading
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Serendipity – What I miss from the days of film.
Sometimes, I miss the hidden advantages of film in these days of digital perfection. Digital has brought many advantages to photography. Today’s cameras can work faster, are more accurate with metering and focus, and can show me the image being recorded as I’m photographing. I can eliminate mistakes and avoid errors before I’ve pressed the… Continue reading
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A Journey’s End
This is a new image from my large-format portrait project. I used an 8×10 Deardorff view camera and sensitized paper to make this image of Stephanie. We popped over to Lake Katherin to make this image. It’s such a great outdoor space. Here’s the beast. It’s a heavy one to carry, and the tripod alone… Continue reading
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Getting All Jazzy
Making portraits with a vintage process is a deliberate and slow choice. Image creation that is measured in minutes per image, not images per second. See the link in the bio to see more of our blog post. Continue reading
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Selfie with The Dorff
My shut-in selfie… Say that ten times fast. I’ve had no excuses to do a self-portrait. And I know that I had to do it before I shaved off my beard, heaven knows when my next beard will appear. Balancing the Deardorff on the selfie stick was a bit of a trick. Doing a… Continue reading
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ULF Fun
Ultra Large Format. This image is part of a new collection of work using a paper negative process to make intimate portraits. Continue reading
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Salt of the Earth
This image is from a series using an 8×10 large-format view camera and paper negative. This process dates back to 1835 to Talbot’s Salt Print. I’m using a more modern version of the process. Brian had to sit very very still and he did receive a tan from the flash. Continue reading
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The Paper Neg is Back
More playing with paper negs…. the texture in the photo is from the paper fibers in the negative. Still working on getting the wet plate going… its just taking time with the crazy summer schedule. Continue reading
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Fun with the Old
My brother-in-law, Jon, was in town a few weeks ago, and I asked if he would sit for a portrait with my big camera. He, honestly, didn’t have a choice if he wanted to get to the airport on time… I’m having fun with the slower pace that the large format requires to produce an… Continue reading
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I found a new love
Yes….. Wet Plate just might be my new love. It takes a lot longer to do that shooting with large format, I like slowing down. One of the more fascinating aspects of the process is that the collodion is mostly sensitive to ultraviolet light. This is challenging because the colors being photographed are rendered differently… Continue reading
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955