The last time I used a large format camera has been about 5 or 6 years ago for an editorial shoot. Before that, it may have been another 5 or 6 years. I stopped shooting film for the most part since 2000. Now, after 8 years of shooting digital, I've had the yearning to not only shoot film again, but large format film. I have a Century 8x10 from the 40's and a Busch 4x5 field camera. I'm just getting my feet wet again with some Polaroid Type 56. We'll see how it goes...
Good to see another Pacific NW photographer on the forum. Hopefully the region will get warmer and dryer in the next couple months so we can all venture out.
Ted - there's a group of large format photographers getting together next Tuesday at the new Hopworks brew pub on SE Powell to sit and chat about photography. If you're interested, send me a PM and I'll give more details.
Welcome Ted.
You could also visit with Portland Photographers Forum. We have a lot of Large Format, medium, 35mm and digital photographers in the group. We meet every third wednesday at Wilson High of Portland, 7pm in the teachers lounge.
Our speaker this month is Terry and Kathlenn Thompson.
Here is a little blurb about Terry:
Terry's background includes an art education at the legendary School
of Visual Arts in New York City, working with artists as diverse as
Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Vido Acconci, Gary Winogrand, and Tad
Yamashiro. His Graduate work was at the San Francisco Art Institute,
with the top West Coast photographic artists, including Linda Conner,
Wynn Bullock, Pirkle Jones, and Jack Fulton. He was one of the first
photographic artists to revive the Platinum print process in the
1960's and his prints are represented in the collections of the
Portland Art Museum, Ruth Bernhard, Emmet Gowen, Martha & Robert
Gamblin and Bostick & Sullivan. He is currently on display at the
Portland Art Museum in the " New On the Wall, Recent Photography
Acquisitions" Exhibition, and will be showing new work in 2009 at the
Newspace Gallery.
PM me if you need more information.
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