Introduction to Large Format
A Photographers Place
October 24, 10AM - 3PM
5100 Lacy Ave Ste 100,
Raleigh, NC 27609
Demystify the amazing large format camera in this class which will get you using this incredible machine and making your first negative. Building familiarity with the functions and use of a large format camera will improve your overall understanding of optics and photography. This 200 year old technology still delivers the highest continuous line resolution of any camera in history. The large beautiful analog negative you can hold, see and print is the result of this process. We will use cameras and make our first large format pictures and develop them in this seminar. Bring your camera or arrange to rent one in advance from A Photographer’s Place. In this class we will discuss:
Camera functions
Lens Functions
Loading Film
Metering Light
Film Delvelopment
Contact Printing
About the instructor:
Holden Richards is a traditional large format film photographer and native North Carolinian currently residing in Hillsborough. Inspired by primarily by walking the creeks and rivers of Orange, and Durham Counties, these locations and subjects predominate his photographic work. He has studied view camera (with Jim Stone) and historic process printing (Jill Enfield) at Penland School of Crafts.
He is a current Getty Images Contributor who has had his work featured print, including Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, The Hand Magazine, and The Oxford American as well as appearing in corporate advertising campaigns through Getty. His recent monograph Riverwalk is included in the archives of the University of North Carolina, Duke University and the North Carolina Museum of Art. His darkroom work has been included in The Cassilhaus Collection and the public collections of the cities of Raleigh and Durham, NC among others.
Lately I am using only large format cameras, mostly older than 100 years old, and contact printing the results in the traditional wet darkroom on select European papers as well as making Kallitypes, Salt Prints, Albumen, and other alternative prints.