Large Format Skydiving Photographs

[vinny]

I once jumped off a chair with my 8x10 while wearing a parachute.

[Jack Dahlgren]

I find it hard to believe no one has ever jumped out of an airplane with a speed graphic before.

[Ivan J. Eberle]

Or one of the many aerial-photography 4x5 box cameras with cones replacing bellows.

[Jeremy Moore]

Another MFA art f@g.

It's like those hacks who go around with portfolios of stupid shots and then they claim they are art because they used a large format camera instead of a Rebel. Like that Gigapixel crap.

Hey! I resemble that remark.

[QT Luong]

Another MFA art f@g.

It's like those hacks who go around with portfolios of stupid shots and then they claim they are art because they used a large format camera instead of a Rebel. Like that Gigapixel crap.

If you are referring to gigapxl.org, the guy never claimed to be an artist. As for Clifford Ross, I think enough other people have deemed him an artist, for example http://dlkcollection.blogspot.com/20...sonnabend.html

[QT Luong]

I find it hard to believe no one has ever jumped out of an airplane with a speed graphic before.

It gets a bit windy, you know, and you'd also like to have your hands free.

[Robert Hughes]

"I wanted to upend the norms ... to be used in a wildly different way... a hybrid of new and old, calm and chaos."

Sounds like an assistant professor bucking for tenure.

[QT Luong]

Check out his "guide to birds of the pacific northwest" or whatever, for a perfect example of this. Really bad photography, attempted "clever" concept. Doesn't work for me.

The concept was already kind of used by Wolfgang Tillmans in "Concorde".

[Vaughn]

I once jumped off a chair with my 8x10 while wearing a parachute.

Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say...where's the photos, man?!

[Noeyedear]

I used my Razzle from an aircraft, I used double sided tape made tacky to hold the film, to be honest I thought the pictures I shot on the Pentax 67 were better in everyway. Then again my 1DsmkIII beats that. If quality is his goal I would suggest a large Phaseone. Like someone else mentioned, you could get that from a plane. Pointless exercise.

Kevin.