by stevesherman | Aug 29, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
Back in 2004 I thought I wanted to go to a larger camera, 8” x10” was the next step up from my 5” x7” Deardorff camera. I already had several lenses that would work the larger format, so before I actually purchased a camera I was fortunate to borrow one with the...
by stevesherman | Jul 30, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
Coney Island Mafia This image was made on an unseasonably warm day in early April, yet it is the perfect image to kick off August, typically the hottest month of the year. On my second visit to Coney Island in Brooklyn New York, I came across a group of locals...
by stevesherman | Jul 1, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
This month’s Story Behind Every Photograph has for this month only morphed into The Story Behind Steve Sherman’s Quest to understand the Mystery of the Creative Process. What I learned was quite a surprise to me and has resulted in an even greater excitement about...
by stevesherman | May 28, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
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...
by stevesherman | Apr 28, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
Beginning Labor Day Monday of 1997 I began approximately a 6-week obsession with the Fafnir Ball bearing plant in New Britain CT. The factory was being razed and was fenced off from the public, my friend Peter Bosco and James Monteiro had been here several times...
by stevesherman | Mar 29, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
The digital age has given birth to many different terms relative to photography, one is High Dynamic Range, i.e. HDR. The term HDR refers to the contrast range a digital sensor in conjunction with a computer software logarithm is capable of reproducing. Black and...
