Yup. PBS aired a little bit about my work & methodology last night. A fun blend of some medium format street photography and large format portraiture. Watch away!
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Yup. PBS aired a little bit about my work & methodology last night. A fun blend of some medium format street photography and large format portraiture. Watch away!
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Houston! Different than Duluth… weird place.
On a note somewhat-related; Nikon announced today a 36MP 24x36mm DSLR. Now, I fully expect the vast majority of users will use rubbish zoom lenses with this camera, but come March or April I fully intend on trying out one of these bodies with some 1980s-era fast Nikon primes. I’m betting “Full-Frame” digital is going to be the new Medium Format. Not as fun to use as a view camera but I’m interested to see the kind of images these super-high-resolution units make with proper lenses!
Well Hunter, wherever you are now has to be more boring than Duluth. Time to come home. 😀
Cool to see a bit of you out in the field- you’re fast with that camera, damn fast. You’re faster with that manual-focus, manual-advance, manual-exposure camera than most DSLR shooters! Goes to show how much further technique goes than technology.
I totally agree about the advantage of larger formats, even at screen-sized images. Having shot formats from Micro-4/3rds digital (teeny 13x18mm sensor) up to that very same wood 8″x10″ camera Kip uses in the video and quite literally everything in between, I can tell the difference as soon as I pull up an image in my computer. Larger formats can offer a much shallower depth-of-field to isolate subjects, a quality of defocused areas and a smoothness of transition between light and dark tones that’s quite striking. It’s certainly not a look that can be replicated with small-format digital. I suppose that an excellent 24x36mm Film or Digital system with the very fastest lenses might offer similar depth-of-field and tonality but the 7000$ for a D3x might be better spent on a 4×5 or 8×10 system and a good scanner!
Kip, glad you got the shout-out from PBS- keep the LF goodness going. Maybe an 11×14 camera next? I enjoy keeping up with your photos on this blog but I miss geeking out about old cameras in person! Cheers!
Nice work, Kip. Curious to see where this path takes you…
Thats exactly how I feel Blake. Can’t wait to find out.
Great documentary, the whole procedure of operating such a wondeful camera as a 8×10 on the street is fascinating (I am also “moving” to 4×5 from medium format soon). And of course the web cannot reproduce the feeling you get by looking at a large print from a 8×10 negative !
While I totally agree with that Konstantinos, I also am fascinated how even at web resolutions, images from 8×10 that I’ve seen can still often reach out and slap me in the face.
I’m classy that way samh.
@Dave: A few months ago I was at a gallery in Minneapolis and overheard someone looking at a piece say something along the lines of “This piece would really match your living room.” Pretty much one of the worst things I’ve ever overheard. Glad it was regarding one of my pieces.
Really cool, Kip. I like the notion of taking pictures as documentation.
Favorite part: you shaking hands with Dave Adams.