Douglas Kirkland and his 8x10

**Duane Polcou** · 14-Aug-2009, 00:18

Ran across this in Digital Photo Pro magazine.

http://www.digitalphotopro.com/profi...-and-back.html

**Matt_Bigwood** · 14-Aug-2009, 03:34

Very interesting - particularly the bit that he rephotographs his 8x10 chromes on a light box using a Canon DSLR.

**Walter Calahan** · 14-Aug-2009, 04:41

He should get rid of the Canon by switching to a Nikon D3X. Grin.

**Patrick Dixon** · 14-Aug-2009, 05:06

Originally Posted by Matt_Bigwood

Very interesting - particularly the bit that he rephotographs his 8x10 chromes on a light box using a Canon DSLR.

Yes but he doesn't shoot 8x10 for the quality, just the limited DOF.

**MIke Sherck** · 14-Aug-2009, 06:13

Originally Posted by Patrick Dixon

Yes but he doesn't shoot 8x10 for the quality, just the limited DOF.

What, you mean there's something that doesn't have a Photoshop filter for it yet? Quick, to the basement office, Code Man!

**Frank Petronio** · 14-Aug-2009, 06:48

That's some of his best work, his early Photoshop experiments were pretty scary.

**Mark Sampson** · 14-Aug-2009, 08:23

Well, *most* early Photoshop experiments were pretty scary. But Kirkland was an early adopter- I was at the Maine Workshops in '91, and we visited the brand-new "Kodak Center for Creative Imaging across town; (boy is there a story behind that fiasco) and his Hollywood portraits were on display there. Can't remember much about what they looked like though.. we were at CCI to learn lighting interiors, if I remember.

**mandoman7** · 14-Aug-2009, 09:35

This makes me wonder how many people are using 8x10 for commercial portrait shoots on this forum. In Kirkland's case, there's some momentum there with famous people and the according budget. I've only pulled it out once so far with a paying customer, since I'm still in the process of developing confidence with the procedures. Are there many out there using these for paid sittings?

**Jeremy Moore** · 14-Aug-2009, 09:49

Originally Posted by mandoman7

This makes me wonder how many people are using 8x10 for commercial portrait shoots on this forum. In Kirkland's case, there's some momentum there with famous people and the according budget. I've only pulled it out once so far with a paying customer, since I'm still in the process of developing confidence with the procedures. Are there many out there using these for paid sittings?

Paid 8x10 sittings? Yes.

Commercial portrait shoots in the sense of magazine jobs or the like? Nope.

Sometimes people like the way I see with a camera so they pay me money to make photographs that way.