Hey, gang. I figured I'd go ahead and share my testimony for large format. I started off with photography about 2, maybe 3 years ago now? I immediately fell in love with landscape photography, seeing the work of Ansel Adams. I took to hiking about, shooting hills and valleys which we don't have in Southern Mississippi. I found my ancient DSLR with about 4 MP a little lacking in resolution for landscapes, and the kit lens not sharp enough. I soon upgraded to a Canon T7, which I use to shoot most of my work. Even that was a little underwhelming for the type of landscapes I wanted to shoot. I still wanted to be able to blow my images up to a ridiculous amount and the digital sensor was horrible about collecting dust and specks, which limited me to around f/5.6 for landscapes. Late last fall, I heard about large format photography and immediately fell in love with the idea. The only thing stopping me was, well, the cost. I took the plunge slowly and sometime in January I took my first large format photograph. It was actually a self portrait of myself and some others, so I composed the photograph and did everything, but had a helper take the actual image. I've completely fallen in love with the process since then. I recently returned from a large format road trip across the entirety of the southwest. I didn't mean to go as far as I did but I had a couple accidental detours and ended up hitting every state, as well as a couple in the midwest. Digital photography seems a bit lacking, now. Good lenses are so much more expensive, and you don't get those sweet sweet movements. Digital has become more of a burden to me than an art, as snobby as that sounds, but it feels so limiting compared to large format now.
God Bless,
John P Garriga
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