4×5 film – Page 5 – So Many Stars

Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD – Experiments and Results

I wanted to experiment with the recipe for a coffee-based film developer commonly called Caffenol. Dirk Essl at caffenol.org does an excellent job of keeping track of development times for lots of different films that can be developed with Caffenol. However, most of the films that have been developed using this unique developer were filmsContinue reading “Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD – Experiments and Results”

Gravitational Fields

technorium: Ilford Orthographic film, developed in Ilford Multigrade paper developer (which is, by the way, not on the recommended list of developers at all. i totally used this developer by mistake). model: sara ferron

a new day

natural window light with the 4×5 camera suspended above the model. i guess there’s always the fear of falling gear, but such beautiful light should not be wasted. model: Hana Rose

Memento Mori

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” – Susan Sontag model: cam damage

the golden hour

i don’t often work in color, but i recently had the chance to shoot with a model named Porcelain and thought it was a good time to shoot some of the Provia slide film i was given by the Fuji rep at Photo Plus Expo. the sun was setting fast and we had some of that goldenContinue reading “the golden hour”

with/without

an experiment in undressing the model. the idea for this came spontaneously just after Floofie hit the clothed pose. i asked her to remove the jacket and replicate the pose. certainly a common theme with nude photos, but one which i couldn’t resist interpreting myself. shot on 4×5 Ilford Delta 100. model: Floofie

That Look

Jillian and I hang out all the time. i see her at least once a week and we’ve talked about shooting so often, it’s not even funny any more. So we set up a date to shoot and the night before I mixed a little bit too much Wild Turkey in with the night andContinue reading “That Look”

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