by Frank Sirona | Nov 30, 2020 | Frank Sirona
This is the first part of an interview that first appeared in On Landscape, the online magazine for landscape photographers, No. 212. The questions were asked by Tim Parkin. Q: Can you tell me a little about your education, childhood passions, early exposure to...
by Ryan Gillespie | Sep 24, 2020 | Educational, Ryan Gillespie
By Ryan Gillespie Creative Blocks, or barriers to inspiration, can be described as the inability to access one’s internal creativity. Those in creative professions – writers, musicians, performers, artists – are often more likely to be affected by...
by J Riley Stewart | Aug 31, 2020 | Educational, J Riley Stewart
The sheer volume of lessons from Ansel Adams about anything related to large format photography can be overwhelming. He packed more lessons into 3 pages than most of his contemporaries packed into a whole book. There is no way someone could remember everything...
by Ben Horne | Jul 31, 2020 | Ben Horne, Educational
It’s best to keep things simple when working with a large format camera. Over the years I’ve developed a ritual of sorts when working in the field. As Alan Brock mentioned in an earlier post, one such ritual is test firing the shutter before pulling the...
by Frank Sirona | May 1, 2020 | Educational, Frank Sirona
Part II: Exposure compensation Part 1 can be viewed here: Using calculators in large format photography One of the many aspects which set large format photography apart from photography with modern digital cameras is that there is no CPU to which you can delegate such...
by Alan Brock | Mar 31, 2020 | Alan Brock, Justin Lowery, Trip Report
“The entire world could end and we wouldn’t even know.” Justin Lowery said that once. Or maybe it was me. Honestly it’s tough to remember at this point as it happened over two years ago. What I do know is that he and I once socially...