Are you making money with LF?

[savantcreative]

Are there people out their still getting paid well enough to be shooting large format and film?

How is business these days. I pretty much shoot all digital commercially now.

Best regards

[Walter Calahan]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Unfortunately very FEW photographers really get paid well.

I had a film assignment last year shooting 8x10. Can't remember my last film assignment other than that.

[Vaughn]

My business is fine-art photography, which is 100% LF...and I make enough money to keep photographing, but the day job pays the bills and feed the kids.

My last commercial assignment was getting on the roof and then climbing up a couple of ladders to the top of the elevator structure on the County Jail to make a panaramic shot with the 8x10 (consisting of four 4x10's) onto color transparency film. This is the highest building in Eureka.

Vaughn

[savantcreative]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Unfortunately very FEW photographers really get paid well.

I had a film assignment last year shooting 8x10. Can't remember my last film assignment other than that.

I know it's a good but sad one.

The last time I did a commercial 8 x 10 shoot was about 9 years ago for Captain Morgans Rum in NYC. I had a feeling that it would be the last one even back then.
Do you shoot commercially?
Best

[David Luttmann]

All of my wedding and portraiture work is now digital based. Even landscape prints I sell have come from digital images or high MP stitched digital images. Some of the landscape prints I’ve sold have however come from LF negs, so yes, I guess I have earned some from LF.

[savantcreative]

My business is fine-art photography, which is 100% LF...and I make enough money to keep photographing, but the day job pays the bills and feed the kids.

My last commercial assignment was getting on the roof and then climbing up a couple of ladders to the top of the elevator structure on the County Jail to make a panaramic shot with the 8x10 (consisting of four 4x10's) onto color transparency film. This is the highest building in Eureka.

Vaughn

Stay with your art, man. I love having to climb on stuff when I shoot. The harder the better. It's like being a kid.
Best

[jnantz]

i get a handful of habs/haer assignments a year.
they are mostly LF, and i can't complain.

[Vaughn]

Stay with your art, man. I love having to climb on stuff when I shoot. The harder the better. It's like being a kid.
Best

It was fun, but climbing up 20' ladders leaning (not fixed to the building) against the upper reaches of the building with the 8x10 was a bit of a challenge. Then the roof of the elevator shaft was an uneven spongy rubber layer. At least there was no wind that day! The job originally was to be from a lower roof of the courthouse and only found out about the jail roof part when I got there!

But you are right -- I'll stick with the fine art aspect of photography (especially since my day job is taking care of a teaching darkroom for a university Art Department!), and leave the weddings and other commercial shoots to those who enjoy that aspect of photography!

Vaughn

[Kirk Gittings]

Up until October of 2006, I made my living with film and a view camera, now the commercial work is 95% digital. My personal work is still 95% 4x5 film.

[domenico Foschi]

I have been floating on the surface for almost 3 years.
Considering the doubts and fears I had,I have far exceeded my expectations.
Now it's time to glide effortlessly