Hi all.
I'm completely new to the forum. I have been doing 35 mm photography since I was a child (I'm 29). I learned everything on full manual, all the physics and fundamental principles. My darkroom experience is extremely limited to a few hand-holded sessions more than a decade ago. I have a full on screams amateur page for my digital stuff (I only shoot a few primes, and all full manual on a budget Canon EOS body): http://www.olasanaflora.com .
In 2006, when I started graduate school, I visited the Museum of Fine Arts for the first time, and my whole paradigm of photography was changed forever. I saw large format prints in person for the first time. The exhibition was Laura McPhee: The River of No Return. Ever since that day, a little tingling, irritating seed was planted that has never died, but never fully germinated.
In the last year I made the website, and to my PROFOUND surprise, sold a few fine art prints of my work.
And... now more than ever... The seed is itching again. My fieldwork as a research scientist takes me to some amazing places. I am a fan of the old school, I want to learn the controls of dynamic range with a real, tangible exposure. I want to take a real, large format image and learn to work with it.
BUT... I know virtually nothing about large format/4 x 5.
I know nothing about lenses, film, focus, focal lengths, dof, darkroom developing, printing etc. with a large format.
I hope to learn. Thanks for reading!
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