Starting as a farm kid in a 4H photography class, Ansel Adams was one of my photo heroes. I wanted to make images that sang like his did. I’d like to think that as a photographer, I have my own voice now and my prints sing their own song, but the fact that they can sing at all, I owe to the inspiration of Ansel’s work.
Thank you MFA Boston for the honor. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQ1WuxFSH1/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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 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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Side by side windowlight portraits done with a Nikon D800 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.
#itdoesntmatter #kirkdecker #shootingwithfilm #windowlight #elegantlight #makeportraits #blackandwhiteportrait #fineartportrait #analogphotography #blackandwhitephotographer #blackandwhitephotography #portraitphotography #filmphotography #wideopen #filmvsdigital #nikond800 #nikonf2 #nikon105mm
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I went out to the stream behind my house and did some photographs. The idea of Pareidolia in photography interests me. In these photographs I saw galaxies, people, and strange animals. Hit the link at the bottom of the page for the entire album on Google Plus.
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It has been cold, but the full Moon has been lovely. Full Moons have many names. One of the February names is Full Snow Moon.
