this is my first official speed graphic portrait. i've shot plenty of 4x5 but have always lusted after a handheld large format so i could realistically bring it with me wherever instead of just in the studio on a huge stand. featured is, shockingly, jamric.
for illustrative purposes, here is a shot of me holding the camera, very soon after i took this shot, which the guys will very likely mention on their brand new blog.
i suppose im a tiny part of a larger trend of people enjoying older cameras, processes, and approaches to taking photographs. of course there are tons of people who learned on this stuff and still use it and it is just now time for me to clue in to its greatness.
Okay so it has been a while since I have posted here mostly due to being occupied by the other place I am posting daily images--electric lion. I do try to keep the images in the electric lion part of this site when I have time but the bulk of posting nonsense happens over there for now.
I have a couple of things to blurt out awkwardly here really quickly.
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My sister is done with chemo! There is a remission-bash in June and I am pumped for it. Anyone know some Reps or Photo Directors I should meet with while I'm in New York? Anyway, she was and is a badass and can now finally flip the bird to long-named cancer drugs--hopefully for goood. Also, she still has shirts and bags for sale at her blog. They go toward he lovely hospital bills. Check it here.
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Speaking of my sister, I got to see here when we convened on the family farm (with Nicole, my mom, my grandparents, aunt and uncle, cousins, etc) for Mothers' Day and while there I took some portraits of her (one should be sufficiently creepy. she is a good sport) as well as some 8mm footage of Nic and my granddad working with his bees. He has kept bees since 1969 and at age 86.5 he still works them practically every day. Here is some of that footage. Note that I shot it with two different cameras...see if you can tell which one is expensive (read: not mine) and which one cost four dollars (thrift store!). It shouldn't be too hard to tell, if you have eyes that work anyway.
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Here are some random favorites from electric lion. I realized I hadn't posted any in a good while (here, anyway) so I will now highlight a few.
Jason Hamric helping me out on a shoot in Indianapolis, Indiana
My good friend Helen (who recently moved to Portland with Garrett. Cue weeping) modeling for some new mental_floss tshirts.
so in honor of a visit from kevin (AND! john yam), here is an old school shot of kevin. there is a party tonight in their honor, thrown by and for themselves. we are all very excited.
on another note, the longer i shoot the more i find i am drawn to older cameras. im excited to start a new project with a camera i just snagged on ebay--the long desired (by me) speed graphic. for those unfamiliar, think of old mob movies. its a similar camera to the one used in the godfather (part i) where they take the photo of the mob guy at the wedding and his bodyguard grabs the camera and the mob dude rips up the 4x5 exposure.
we were going for a sort of cheesy 50's housewife thing, but only so much as i like her outfit and thought i'd be funny. there wasnt much in the studio in the way of props...so there is a plate, a spatula, and i think a potato.
anyway...yeah..its azurae again. not to bombard with them but a) i love so many of these and b) i am waiting on more film.
