Portable Studio Portraits

[John Olsen]

Thank you for your kind words, gents.

In previous years, I would shoot portraits for free and charge for prints if people wanted them. The problem was, I would spend weeks scanning negatives and sending out proofs. When orders came in for prints, it was rarely the for the images that I loved. It was a drag setting up the darkroom to print these images and know that I was putting off printing the important work. Now that nothing will be available for sale at any point, I have full control of the process. At one point this past weekend, someone asked if she could have her portrait made standing with one foot on the chair. In the past, I might have made the portrait with the thought that, well, maybe she’ll buy the print. In the event, I told her that I don’t like portraits of people with their feet on chairs, and since I’m not going to print something I don’t like, we shouldn’t make that picture. It was a great moment for me.

I’m going to New York for 12 days for John Coffer’s wet plate workshop and a few days visiting friends and family in the city. I’m planning to shoot another 50 sheets of film, which will round out my summer’s shooting to 300 sheets. I’ll start processing in September. The lovely thing is, when I’m finished, I can begin printing the images I love the most and just keep printing until I get to images that aren’t worth my time of the darkroom. Those images will never see the light of day. This is the way it should be for a hobby. It should be fun and I should be making what I want to make.

Here are the signs I had up in the tent:

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Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

By stating your goals and your standards so clearly you've done a huge favor to all photographers who want to work their own vision. I'll come to your show, for sure.

[Cameron Cornell]

Thank you kindly, John.

[tonyowen]

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Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com
www.instagram.com/papacornell

Looks like a partially unfinished game of Go in the foreground

regards
Tony

[Cameron Cornell]

Looks like a partially unfinished game of Go in the foreground

regards
Tony

That’s right! It was a teaching game my son had been playing with a visitor to the tent. If you know the game, you can see that neither side is playing brilliantly

[Merg Ross]

A passion and dedication to be admired. Wishing you much success!

[LF_Alex]

Really cool idea!!!!

[tradexelgraphics]

amazing sets of idea you made... great job. keep it up.

[Torontoamateur]

I think this is wonderful I would always send the subject one print. Even if " bad" to them it will be wonderful and they will tell friends.