The Story Behind Every Photograph
Monthly Power of Process Tip
Hartford City Hall Staircase 110mm Schneinder Super Symar FP 4 f 22.5 @ 3 minutes 15 secs. N - 4 Pyrocat HD Minimal Agitation The Eye / Brain relationship can process huge amounts of contrast and therefore many times with Film we have to compress huge amounts of contrast just to create a literal rendering of a particular scene. Such is the case in Hartford City Hall, click the link below for a short discussion with a student who traveled from Argentina to learn my Power of Process and...
Response to Transparent article
My rebuttal to the Magic Formulas and Photographer's Romance with the Nonsense is at the end in italics, but first here is a direct comparison between two identically exposed 7" X 17 " J&C 200 film shot back in 2003 and processed upon my return home. The following two negatives were some of the very first negatives I processed via Semi-Stand forms of development back in 2003 in my quest to find a predictable method to process film in a Reduced Agitation form of development where...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…June, 2017
Two good friends and I, all Large Format photographers from Connecticut, planned a trip to the Canyonlands National Park for the express purpose of hiking the Salt Creek to photograph Angel Arch. Park Rangers explained the beginning of the excursion would be down the Salt Creek via a 4WD vehicle to a locked gate. To open the gate we were given a code, which would expire in three days at the limit of our permit so we needed to keep an appropriate timeline in place. We rented a Ford...
Monthly Power of Process Tip
https://youtu.be/zHqkIKFJ10c This Month's Process Tip may seem very obvious, however, over the years I have lead scores of workshops with students numbering in the hundreds. I have seen Reciprocity charts tucked neatly away in the backpack, or worst yet difficult to find in the pack taking away necessary time for a long exposure trying to find the chart. The only time a Reciprocity Conversion Chart is needed is when measuring light reflectance and determining what correction is necessary...