Video: “Advanced far out darkroom technique in black & white photography” by Borut Peterlin
Make of this as you will! Interesting results at the very least.
Online Photo Essay: In My Backyard – Iceland by Agnieszka Sosnowska
“For a long time I thought that photographs showed the viewer what the world looked like. It wasn’t until college that I learned that a photograph could tell a story. While studying photography at Massachusetts College of Art I began…
A rare sighting: Gowlandflex 4×5 twin lens reflex camera
Spotted on Reddit, a rare Gowlandflex 4×5 twin lens reflex camera that was brought into Peace Cameras in Raleigh, North Carolina in the USA by it’s own. The image above, showing it towering over a what looks like a Hasselblad…
Photographing the nude with large format by Leonard Metcalf
My first nudes with large format cameras were very slow affairs. Painting my friends bodies with a light grey body paint all over and only a couple of poses of them together. Limited by only a few sheets of film…
12th April will be the official Film Photography Day! Put your DSLRs away!
So the Lomographic Society has deemed the 12th April to be the official “Film Photography Day”! We hope all our readers will, on this special occasion, put their digital cameras away, grow a beard (women too) and bring out…
Technique: Sekonic L758D and the Zone System by Alex Bond
Visit alexbond.com.au for a very useful post from Alex Bond on using your Sekonic light meter with the zone system. Read more…
How to Expose for Shadows & Develop for Highlights
If you have been around photography for very long a couple quick observations come to mind. First, things just sound complicated and in reality they really are not. Math is involved so that puts a certain distribution of people in…
Video: Portrait of Nature – Myriads of Gods on Platinum Palladium Prints
The Platinum palladium print uses platinum which is the most stable metal on earth, and with its rich gradation expression, it is understood as the most beautiful print among various printing techniques. Photographer Nobuyuki Kobayashi applies platinum print on Washi…
An introduction to 4×5 large format photography by Japan Camera Hunter
Japan Camera Hunter has a series of blog posts on introducing large format photography. For those new to large format photography, it’s a great introductory guide and highly recommended reading. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Interview: Digital photographs of buildings can be “disturbing”, says Hélène Binet
The Swiss-French photographer shoots exclusively in analogue, and regularly works with some of contemporary architecture’s most famous names – including Peter Zumthor, Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind. “I’ve never done anything professionally with digital,” Binet told Dezeen. “If something is…
