Large Format Portraits — An analogue experience for everyone
There was a moment in the workshop, while we were developing the first portrait on paper, when someone said: “Wait — you can actually …
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Large Format Portraits at Cameras & Films — August 2024
Bring Arezzo — said the workshop announcement — and come learn to load, focus and shoot our old large format Woody camera.
The idea: we …
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Results from the Large Format workshop
Results from the introductory Large Format workshop at Llumàtics.
4×5" black-and-white sheet film, developed in a tray. The image …
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Large Format workshop — behind the scenes
This is how Saturday’s workshop at Llumàtics went.
The large format camera, 4×5" sheets, the ground glass, the black cloth over …
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Session with Maria de Acha
A recent session with the brilliant Maria de Acha at Llumàtics.
The kit includes mostly Hasselblad CM with a 100mm but also a Leica M4-2 …
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Introduction to large format
Why such a big camera?
It’s a fair question. A view camera is bulky, slow, expensive to run and requires a tripod. It’s not …
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Large format 4×5"
One exposure, one decision
When you use a large-format camera, you don’t shoot and discard. You don’t make ten photos of the …
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Large-format portrait
A 19th-century camera
At Cameras & Films — the space that was the Lomography Embassy Barcelona, where Joan Linux has been teaching …
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