What a great set up!
I'm impressed!!
Great to see it come to fruition for you!
How much does your tent weigh?
Serge
What a great set up!
I'm impressed!!
Great to see it come to fruition for you!
How much does your tent weigh?
Serge
Thank you, Serge. I really do appreciate all of the encouragement you fellows have offered, especially as it comes from people whose work I really respect.
Here is the canopy I bought:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/King-Can...sc__W611914892
It looks like it weighs 201 lbs. I rented a 14' truck to set up the day before the festival opened, and again on the last day to break it down.
Normally, the fellow who runs the festival (the musician Robert Sarazin Blake, the fellow in the portrait bowing and holding his hat above his head) charges $300 for vendors to set up at the festival. We made a deal, though, that I'd shoot portraits of the musicians who perform at the festival and give them scans of their images for free. He had invited me to be a vendor after we met at the 2016 Jamboree. My plan is to go back every summer for the next ten years or so. By the time I wrap it up, I figure I'll have a nice little set of portraits.
Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com
I love this!
Only skim read this thread. Awesome job. Will read it a bit more indepth later, but I do like what you have done
Wonderful idea and results! Looks like hard work, but well worth it.
This is great. Would like to do something similar this summer.
I love the photos, and am really struck by how wonderfully you handled the lighting, with the modified tent. The light is absolutely perfect, by any measure!
Thanks, but I'd rather just watch:
Large format: http://flickr.com/michaeldarnton
Mostly 35mm: http://flickr.com/mdarnton
You want digital, color, etc?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stradofear
Thank you, Michael. I think that considering the light is one of our best chances to impact an image. We can’t really take credit for how a lens renders a scene (we didn’t make the lens), or the great face or expression our subject has (or for that matter, the beautiful tree or mountain). That leaves composition, technique, and the light. The light can be so beautiful. Properly handled, I think it can make an image of anything seem like a revelation.
I have plenty to learn about light, of course, but this project has been a great vehicle for that process. I was trying to recreate the light in the north light studios of old, like Hippolyte Bayard’s below from 1855. I spent five weeks setting up the tent in my back yard everyday, gradually modifying the way I draped the fabric until it was just the way I wanted it. I didn’t want to be figuring it out during the actual festival.
Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com
Really enjoyed those, plus the shots of the setup. Good for you!
Robert
Nice job all around, portraits are great and it's awesome that you brought you studio camera out.
Roger
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