Tod Davis. Rock n Roller and one of the heads of Kansas City’s Two Headed Cow. On digital and film. Same camera, same lens a Hasselblad with the 150mm Sonnar. Phase One digital back and Rollei Retro 80s film.
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Kauffman Gardens
Some photos taken during a casual stroll through Kauffman Gardens this afternoon. The fall colors and cloudy light have been quite magical these days. Meanwhile, all of my favorite photo blog writers have become obsessed with the latest camera offerings and they’re all yapping about that, and none of them are actually out taking any pictures. So, here’s a few pictures taken with a Phase One P30+ and a Hassleblad 500cm with 150mm Sonnar both of which are older than most of my kids, and given that my youngest kid is a college grad, I think the camera did just fine.
Beau Bledsoe
Beau Bledsoe @beaubledsoe, consummate musician, founder of Ensemble Ibérica and Alaturka. Amazing how the sound of his Martin guitar filled my small studio. Beau’s portrait was made in my Westbottoms studio with a Hasselblad 555ELD, 150mm Sonnar, Phase One digital back and traditional Hasselblad film backs.
The Librarian
Archive – Photographs by members of the Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography – Potter Gallery, Missouri Western State University, October 1-26.
This photograph goes waaay back in my archive. Seventh Grade, 1974 Valley Center Jr. High, Valley Center, Kansas. I would have been 12 or 13, and becoming obsessed by photography. I remember taking this photograph, but when I look at it now, I feel as if I’m somewhat omnisciently looking at another person’s work. I know this photographer, I know where he is going, I understand him.
He shot up a lot of film during this time and the photos are not half bad for a Jr. High kid. But occasionally, he will (I think) just nail one. These images are where my omniscience fails me. Where did this come from? Did he get this one because he was always hammering away and got lucky? Was he actually paying attention as he idly flipped through the art books in the library? This is where I lose the connection and make the connection. Today, I have a much better idea of what’s going on with my work, but the occasional “where did this come from???” still happens.
New Studio Space!
Portrait made in my new studio space, Kansas City Livestock Exchange building located in the West Bottoms next to Kemper Arena.
Film vs Digital
Side by side windowlight portraits done with a Nikon D850 Digital camera and a Nikon F2 Film camera. I’ll be posting a number of these and I’m not going to say which is which. The film is Kodak Portra 160. The lens is a Nikon 105mm f/1.4 shot wide open. This isn’t meant to be rigorous comparison or even a film vs digital. It’s just something I did for fun.
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A Person of Mystery
A Person of Mystery
A while back, through sheer chance, I acquired a Century Studio camera that had belonged to Howard Eastwood, a photographer I admired. The camera came with some 8×10 film holders. One of them had a sheet of film in it with the position of the dark slide indicating it had been exposed. As far as I knew, the camera hadn’t been used in 40 + years. I’d never seen Howard use it. Chances were high that if the film holder had an exposed sheet of film in it, that film would be hopelessly fogged by now. It’s not so much an age thing; it’s almost impossible to pick up an old film holder and not open it. With that in mind, I threw the film in a tray and sloshed it around for awhile. Imagine my surprise…
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Brookside Art Annual
Medium Category: Photography
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Congratulations on being selected for 2018 Brookside Art Annual. We had over 1070 applications for 170 spots.
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The Hanging
It’s a strange feeling to watch people line out your work on tables while they talk about how it will be grouped and sequenced on the gallery walls.
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My Inner Thoughts
This is one of the photographs being offered through SmallEditionPrints. It was made with a “vintage” 15mm ultra wide angle lens manufactured circa 1979. While it looks like a fisheye lens, it’s actually rectilinear – straight lines stay straight. No curvy fishiness in your photos with this lens. High-tech and wildly expensive back then, considered obsolete today; it’s one of my favorite lenses. The machine in the photograph is a Carding Engine manufactured circa 1858. It revolutionized the textile industry. In 1958 a complete three story factory with nine carding engines sold for $650.00. Today the same factory is a historic landmark, Watkins Woolen Mill. Will my lens make a comeback, will it be valuable again? Don’t know, don’t care, I’m getting full value from it right now.
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