I finally launched a 4x5 section on my site. It’s still very much in progress, but for the sake of making myself work on it, I went ahead and made it public. Still working on galleries that make more sense for editorial, etc, but these shots made me super happy to create. The gallery will be updated as I work through new orders and rescan some of the images. As it is now, there are plenty of artifacts / newton rings, etc, but I’m trying to let go of needing it all to be perfect. That’s it for now!

4x5s are here.

Peter K, some gnarly scar, and (fake) Tony Hawk!

Last Halloween there was a skate comp at the now-defunct Shoe Factory skate spot hosted by Peter Karvonen, pictured above. I’m just now getting good scans of some of those shots (the black and white ones anyway) and thought I’d post them, even if I’m too lazy to spot them and stuff right now.

Below is a dude’s super gnarly scar and fake Tony Hawk.

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Working on a large format gallery for my site so I’m rehashing some old photos. I’m sure I’ve posted this 1000 times now, but here’s Ashley again, shot on the Legotron. A scan I’m finally happy with. Loving this ANR glass.

The New York Times Lens blog just nails it so often.

Photo © Bharat Choudhary

Branden on the Legotron, shot on Kodak Portra 160

In an attempt to stay positive about Kodak, I thought maybe today was a decent day to post one of the images I’ve shot in color on the Legotron. Kodak sent over a few sheets for me to test out a while back and I’m just now getting around to really do anything with the stuff I’ve shot so far.

This first shot is Branden. I took some sheets on my normal field camera also to be able to compare color and all that stuff, but I’m still working on getting super clean scans for color 4x5. Black & white and color film stocks are different and despite being able to get great scans now out of BW, color is still eluding me—damn Newton rings.

I’ve got to say though, I absolutely ADORE the weird color shifts that come from light leaks and colored blocks. A bunch of people who have seen the camera have told me that I should rather have black blocks inside the camera, or spray it flat black. But perfection is the absolute last thing I’m after with this camera! All these weird lines and blotches. Love it!

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WOW!

Via Feature Shoot

from instagram

Shooting Branden on the Legotron on Kodak Portra 160 (can’t wait to see it)

Additional photos of Chief Roper

I had the great pleasure to photograph Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper for the September issue of Birmingham Magazine. And when I say great pleasure, I mean it. He was simply wonderful to work with. When I think of people with a lot of power, especially in the realm of law enforcement, I think of hard-headed, bad-ass jerks, mostly thanks to Law & Order. Chief Roper was exactly the opposite of everything I expected, which really shouldn’t have been surprising since I read the story before I shot him.

His whole platform pretty much is to work with anyone who is trying to help make the city a better place.

He was warm and funny and down to let me shoot however I wanted.

Thanks Chief!

See the article online here.

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