Large Format Portraits

These family pictures were all taken on my large format camera.  I bought this camera a year ago and came close to selling it a few times.  It's very expensive to buy the film and have it developed.  It takes about 10 full minutes to set up one shot.  It's cumbersome and a total pain.  We have a love hate relationship, the large format camera and I.  I've always found it difficult to do portraits with this thing as I like to capture certain moments that's not quite possible with this camera.  However, using it in the studio has been pretty great.  So I think I'll keep it around for a bit.

PS this is what it looks like when I shoot with this monster of a camera:

Video by Seth:

Michelle

I finally took my 4x5 camera out for a test shoot.  I only shot these first two images with it, the other two are 35mm.  I bought all color film but I was not liking the colors at all on any of the film I shot that day, so I switched them to black and white.  Which is a bit frustrating considering the color film is more expensive to buy and develop.  Well, what can you do?

(still some dust, got a bit lazy)

Field Trip

Went on a field trip today for class to use the large format cameras. 4x6, 7x17, and an 8x10 were involved...woo! I brought along my Hasselblad and took this shot of Melissa setting up the 8x10 camera, the camera itself is a piece of art.

(it was a fun day).

Pinocchio

I've been working on a series for my Photo III class using a 4x5 large format camera. I have been asking some of my friends to dress up like Disney characters. This has been a learning experience, I've been shooting indoors and some of the photos haven't turned out like I wanted. However, I am really happy with this shoot, and Brady makes such a great little Pinocchio.

Large Format

This was my first time using a 4x5 Large Format camera and I loved it! What an amazing camera. I did get a lot of looks taking these photographs, one person thought I was shooting a video. These are taken in Rexburg and Rigby, Idaho.