8x10 US Olympics Team photos

[brennanphotoguy]

It seems like someone does something like this every year and here they are again. Pretty cool.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-behind-the-scenes-olympic-portraits-snap-htmlstory.html

[brennanphotoguy]

http://petapixel.com/2016/08/09/portraits-olympians-captured-8x10-wood-view-camera/

There's some cool bts photos in this article too.

[diversey]

Awesome!

[David Karp]

Thanks.

[Pere Casals]

Impressive !

[DrTang]

dude..shoot film!

[dasBlute]

awesome results from what is probably RC paper!

[Willie]

He used photo paper rather than film because of he thinks film is too expensive?

[EdSawyer]

film is the cheapest part of that whole endeavor. Seems silly to not use it yet go to all the trouble of shooting 8x10. Frankly, I wasn't really impressed with most of those shots. There were a couple of the soccer goalie that were decent but the rest seemed really meh (regardless of film vs. paper).

[StoneNYC]

Cool

[ic-racer]

I watched until I saw him put them on a scanner.

[Michael Graves]

...Frankly, I wasn't really impressed with most of those shots...

Oh, whew! I'm not the only one that thought that project was a waste of a perfectly good Tachihara.

[richardman]

I watched until I saw him put them on a scanner.

So the images were acceptable enough to pique your interest to watch. Then you stopped because he uses a process you don't think it belongs.

All these times, I thought it's the image that matters.

(Personally, I don't think the images are great either, but that's another story)

[Daniel Stone]

Maybe we should ALL consider giving him a pat on the back and some positive reinforcement, rather than a slap in the face, for even attempting to shoot this kind of project onto 8x10. No matter the originals being RC paper negatives...
I'm sure he has a (constricted) budget to work with, so he's using ingenuity to create something different rather than just settling for shooting it on digital like of of you tightwads here most likely would :p

I tip my hat to him.

-Dan

[richardman]

Hear Hear!

[Taija71A]

Let me see...

First Generation: RC Photo Paper.
Second Generation: Epson Flatbed Scanner.
Third Generation: Invert Image in Photoshop.
Fourth Generation: Additional processing in Photoshop... For final B&W Production.
Fifth Generation: Display 'Scaled' images on Monitor (860px × 682px 'At best') for Web viewing.

"You get the idea"...