Portrait with large format

Hi, there.

 

I am curious to know if there is anyone in this forum who uses LF to primarily make images of people. I have been taking pictures of people with 8x10. I got a feeling that people with LF are more interested in landscape, architecture, and etc...

But, I would love to see their images in some form and I want to know their creative use of LF for portrait.

 

Also, does anyone can suggest names of photographers who use or have used LF to make images of people? Names come across my minds are:

 

Richard Avedon, Sally Mann, Andrea Modica, August Saunder, Weston, etc...

 

Any suggetions will be appreciated!

 

tsuyoshi

Tsuyoshi: You for got the best portraitist of them all: Yousuf Karsh!

Several portraits on my site are made with large format equipment.<P>Some other photographers who regularly work with large format equipment to make portraits: Gregory Heisler, Arnold Newman, Mary Ellen Mark, Irving Penn, Joel Meyerowitz, Jock Sturges, Shelby Lee Adams, Nicholas Nixon, Thomas Struth, Dan Winters, and Martin Scholler. That is eleven photographers , all working in very different styles and genres of portraiture.

Paul Strand! Brassai (sim. to large format - an early Voigtlander).

ALL 19th-century photographers made portraits with large format equipment.

All of the photographers I listed are living breathing working photographers, even Penn.

Tsuyoshi - some other living artists who have explored portraiture with a large format camera are --- Thomas Ruff, Rineke Dijkstra, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tina Barney, Cindy Sherman, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Harry Callahan...

I know, Ellis. I'm just adding a whole additional group to the list.

 

Thing is, we have it much easier than they did. I just attended the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition in London, where it was noted that she was delighted by certain of her child models who could hold perfectly still for a count of 300.

I make most of the portrait photographs I do these days on 8 x

10.

 

 

 

Ray Bidegain

Ellis, I think that you are potentially missing an opportunity to make some great money. Take that portrait of Ken Lay and and print it circular so ex-Enron employees and stockholders that got the shaft can purchase it and affix it to their dart board for inexpensive therapy. You would make a killing.

Hi Tsuyoshi. I too make portraits with my 8x10 Deardorff. I haven't yet matured artistically to the point that landscapes interest me very much. I basically take the same kind of family pictures that we all do, but with a larger camera to compensate for my technical deficiencies. You can see a couple in my LF portfolio here at photo.net if you like. In closing I'll add one more name to the very distinguished list that Mr. Vener and others have provided; Judith Joy Ross. Ross uses an 8x10 camera with the deft spontenaiety of a press photographer, and prints her beautiful and insightful portraits on Printing Out Paper. If you haven't seen her work, you might consider looking her up. I hope you will post your own work for us to admire here.-jdf

Several weeks ago, I brought my 4x5 to work hoping to photograph an

interesting snow formation on the grounds of the facility. As luck should have

it, the lighting changed that day making the snow scene very undesirable.

Instead, I took a group photo and some individual photos of my team in the

section of the cafeteria that has a glass roof with uniform sun exposure. (As a

side note, I was amazed at how intrigued everyone was with the LF camera).

 

The photos were OK but, certainly nothing that would win any contests... I

posted some 11x14s on the bulletin board and soon after, I was bombarded

with questions about LF photography. Also, no less than 4 or 5 people asked

me if I would do family portraits. Clearly, people are not used to seeing the

clarity and tonal rendition that LF is capable of.

 

In any event, in the right circles, LF portraiture would probably be well

received.

 

Regards

I do mostly 12X20 Platinum portraits.

 

Though no Richard Avedon, I too am alive and breathing, at least the last time I checked.

 

Regards,

Nathan

I also made some portraits on 13x18cm b&w.

Excuse me, just a question for Janez;

 

Are your prints digitally treated? I like it very much...

An inspiration I have discovered through the net is Bruce McNeil.

He posts at photocritique.net, and has a website here:

www.brucemcneil.com.

Ahem. www.brucemacneil.com.

 

Mc, Mac, Mic. Why can't they say Nilsson like a good viking

should?

Hi, everyone.

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Thank you very much for your posts. There were some names that I was not familiar with, and I would definitely love to look into those works. I guess I was more interested in people in art in general.

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Also, I am glad to see some people are working with LF to make portrait. With 8x10, there is something "magical" about making images of people even if it is done rather in a straightforward manner, and I have been haunted by it since I started it.

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I shoot wedding on side, and I am hoping to use LF to make portrait of couples on location. Although I am still struggling with the cumbersomeness of the equipment at the moment. But I think it would be an interesting project.

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If anyone of you live closer to Philadelphia, PA, maybe we can get together to show our work whenever we feel like. Anyone interested, please e-mail me.

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Also, please let me know if you come across with more names of photographers in the future. I always want to see more good images.

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about the image:<br>

I often take pictures of people I know. This is a one of my good friends whom I have been doing photography with. I almost always use the widest aperture to make images like this, which seems to create a sense of fluidness. I like that effect a lot.<div></div>

I love to use my Cambo for portraits, it forces you to interact with the subject, rather than snapping away.<div></div>