Large Format Photography Australia

If Jonathan Jones got past mistaking "pictures"for "photographs"maybe he would not be so glib in dismissing the capacity of photographs to deliver: A rich and inventive visual experience which gives great scope for idiosyncratic vision. A picture validated and empowered by its ph...

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3947/15698559422_b0c22f53b9_c.jpg Rams Head Range, Charlotte Pass Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.2cm X 16.3cm, from a 4x5 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fi...

Thanks, Walter, for the link. Interesting technicalities but they still echo the popular fallacy of "looks like" means "same as". Even if digital picture making was to advance to the stage of exactly replicating the appearance of a photograph it would still not offer the qualitie...

I reckon it's the foliage counterpointing the severe inorganic forms that lifts these pictures. Look at the second one. The leaves and twigs nicked in on the left saves the view from wall-to-wall industrial folly.

Cranky Rock outside Warialda is a top spot for getting close to big rocks. I guess a lot of folks miss it because it's not on a main north-south highway. The heavy filtration in Alex Gard's picture gives the scene weight by bringing the rock and sky tonally closer. Very impressive.

Wow, those trees and rocks are stunning. I think I recognise them. There is a stretch of road beyond Cooma with dramatic rocks and dead trees in all combinations. I've been known to jump a farmer's fence (checking for the farm bull, of course) just to get good camera positions. Tragically almost all...

Detention is an excellent restatement of a grand technique in pictorial art: chiaroscuro. This use of bold light and dark contrasts was first perfected by none other than Leonardo da Vinci. Worked for him; works for Alex Gard.

That's the building on the Peaks Crossing road just off the Cunningham Highway near Warrill View. I think it's the old Warrill View Show Hall, but I'm guessing. The elaborate dunny in the back yard implies public use. The corrugated iron construction is a paragon of Australian vernacular architectur...

Cheers, that's great info. What do you use as a heater? The heat arrives as hot water from the tap built into the splash-back of the darkroom sink. The developing tray with 1 litre of Xtol-rep floats in a bigger tray of hot water. A glass laboratory thermometer measures dev temperature and when it ...

Any chance you could explain your explain your dev & print technique more in depth for this corker? Seems well balanced for a high contrast subject. 90% of the picture is down to the subject and lighting; hard sunlight, deep shadows, and strong bark patterns with cadenced forms make for a strik...