Large Format Photography Australia

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1485/25571148791_ee50d479e9_c.jpg Rockpool and Surf, Infrared Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.5cm X 19.6cm, from a 8X10 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Nikkor-W...

Mick, you see it right. It was cloudy bright but perishingly cold with a sharp breeze. The back of the shed afforded a bit of shelter so that's where the camera was set up. Framing strategy was the basic "get it all in". I didn't correct for verticals - wasn't sure if the shed was straight...

Good ones, Walter! The church is a perfect archetype of Australian corrugated combining the aesthetic and the pragmatic. Short of a massive bushfire a corrugated iron church will last forever with minimal maintenance. That corrugated wall with all the tags and the dunny on the left has been up befor...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1489/25036421163_1e8acc5214_c.jpg Iron Shed, Monaro Highway Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.6cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Plus-X negative exposed in a Bender double extension view camera fitted with a Repro-Claron 305mm f9 ...

This is what happens when I go to the seaside with friends. They chill out and I photograph. They don't notice the camera anymore. They've seen it a hundred times and know it's not dangerous.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1506/25214905160_c4a9ca8080_b.jpg Z & B, Seaside Conversation, Infrared. Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC 111 VC FB, image area 17.6cm X 24.4cm, from a 4x5 Kodak High Speed Infrared negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a S...

As a photograph this is a car crash; a very creative car crash. And like the real deal along the highway, the scene that I know I shouldn't slow down and stare at, but I do, it shakes me up a little. But in a good way; a sort of exhilaration in its raw physicality.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1462/25064442923_17836a964e_b.jpg Cove, Lake Weyba, Infrared Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.4cm, from a 4x5 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted w...

I keep seeing these Alex Gard ambrotypes and I think I'm learning. From my ultra-traditional background I would not even think of sending out a photograph unless it was perfectly spotted and etched if necessary. Well, I'm sure that Alex hasn't spotted or knifed Weeping Willow, Hollow Tree Road so so...

Thanks Mick. Tilting the camera up or down causes vertical convergence or divergence. So I set the camera dead level. Unfortunately the horizon then goes through the exact middle of the picture, usually a bad bad, but I figured with all the visual clutter from the branches no one would notice. The r...