Last night was my second large format people photoshoot. I completely understand why, when the roll-film camera was invented, it took off so well. I am re-thinking this whole move to 4x5 from medium format now. It sure seemed like a good idea at the time...Candy, photographed in West Hollywood. She's moved to Seattle and is available for art modeling.
posted by D. Brian Nelson at 7:39 AM
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I've enjoyed reading about your large-format journey, but from the time you started it, I've wondered why. Your Pentax (or even a newer model DSLR) seems so well-suited for what you're doing. I thought maybe you wanted to make prints larger than 20x30 or 30x40. I'm guessing you miss the spontaneity that results in those great opportunistic shots.
Will
The 4x5 is a mysterious format because once you get a good photograph for it you'll realize medium format or any DSLR won't be able to touch it... but those moments are rare and delayed by the one 'sheet at a time' process.
The 4x5 definitely doesn't carry any quick gratification with it.
-Marek
I know what you must have gone through with the 4x5 the other day. It's a struggle getting everything quite right in the ground-glass - it's all too often that the photographer loses sight of the grander scheme of things.
It's just a whole lot of fiddling around, and I'm not all too sure how one would go about photographing people in the way that you do with a 4x5.
Film on rolls works nicely. Good luck.
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