Interesting Large Format Work

skysh4rk said:
I don't think it's your fault, Steve, and part of the fun of film in the 21st century is that we do have lots of very affordable equipment options available to us. At the end of the day though, it's the person using the gear and they choices that they make regarding composition, use of light, etc. that will have the biggest impact on any image.

With regard to the actual images in question, I find the concept mildly interesting and some of the individual photos are quite good, but others I do not find nearly as strong. I really like the third one from the end with the red points of light, but the ones with the weeds/bushes don't look as well planned out and really lack any significant points of interest in the frames.
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There is the other point of the artist making life difficult for the sake of it and I'm sure we've all done that whether it increases the impact for the viewer or just provides satisfaction for the artist is often up for debate. As You've observed unless these are printed very big they could have been easily done on MF and given some look a little oof they'd probably have been better on a MF SLR/TLR but thats probably not the point. I suppose if you're trying to get a bit of attention then shooting on an unnecessarily large camera will do it these days.
 
H'mm up to a few hours exposure.....maybe the lens was at f32 or smaller. I taken some similar shots with 35mm and exposure was seconds :confused:
 
They must have been pretty dark results then if you shot them in the middle of the night like the linked photographer did :0)
 
stevelmx5 said:
They must have been pretty dark results then if you shot them in the middle of the night like the linked photographer did :0)
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We had a thread about moonlight shots and you can turn moonlight shots into sorta daylight shots with a few secs exposure. But for my moonlit shots over the sea they were taken in seconds...but the moon was bright, and of course every shot wasn't perfect as it is a bit of trial and error.
 
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