Large Format Photography Australia

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8301/7990567742_573f125314_b.jpg Moonrise, Lake Weyba Gelatin-silver photograph on Kodak Polymax Fine Art photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.6cm, from a Tmax 400 8x10 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon...

Lately most of my large format negatives have been Fomapan 400 or Freestyle Arista EDU Ultra 400 which is the same thing. At A$2.75 landed cost for an 8x10 sheet I can't complain. Driving to premium landscape locations and organising accommodation costs way more than the film. One of the pleasures o...

Point Light Gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney is having an exhibition named "As Good as it Gets" until 20 April. The director Gordon Undy will have a Maris photograph or two on the walls. The space will be shared by a row of names and I suspect the Henri Cartier Bresson, Ansel Adams, and Paul...

Some links for you Alastair: http://www.flickr.com/photos/54704995@N02/8483643079/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/54704995@N02/8484755912/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/54704995@N02/8483677135/in/photostream Every negative I make goes through a similar production sequence. I...

I though you might be amused by this work-flow sequence: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8383/8483643079_754588af5c_n.jpg Negative file with neg #014 This is my negative file that includes negative #14 which will be used to make "Twisted Snow Gum, Charlotte Pass" . The top of the file includ...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5018/5530099959_c3e57827dc_z.jpg Floating Nude Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford MG-IV FB VC, image area 24.7cm X 19.6cm, from a 10x8 Tri-X negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens. Titled, signed, and ...

It's been a long long time since I noticed the groundglass image in the back of a view camera is upside down. Or should that be upside down AND back to front? In any case the "inversion" emphasises the formal structure of the image rather the emotional attachment to subject matter. Subsequ...

Nice motifs, isolated trees in a paddock, very Australian. The yellow filter is surprisingly effective in taming those skies and bringing out the clouds. Blank skies used to be a paper negative tradition but your's look much better. I see your marginal notes are mirror-reversed. If you are going to ...

This is how I work when I have to use a new film or developer and I'm in a hurry for workable insights. First I find a "standard" front lit scene with some sky, clouds, some ground, grass and trees, dark shadows, white paint in sunlight, etc etc. The key thing is to have a wide range of su...

Julian Pierce is giving an "Artist Talk" at the QCP, cnr Cordelia St & Russell St, Brisbane, on Sunday 17 March at 1.30PM. The subject will be the aesthetic and technical aspects of Palladio/Platinotype photographs and the Ultra Large Format camera usage that supports them.