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This time of the year, it’s hot where I live. If you’re going to take your camera gear on vacation with you or leave it in the car while you go to work, you’ll want to protect it.
Put a cooler with the camera and the film in the trunk of the car not the front. The trunk doesn’t heat up very much compared to the front of the car. You can minimize that heating by opening the windows in the front some to let heat out. If you want to use a cooling pack in the cooler, you can keep it from chilling as much by putting a layer of towels over the cool packs below the camera gear. There will still be a cooling effect. Play around with it. I’ve gone on many vacations with the camera and film in the trunk. No problems. Just don’t chill the camera so much that you get condensation.
The camera isn’t as available this way as if you have it up front with you while driving, but it’ll be ready to go and nobody knows it’s there.
Oh, yeah, try to park the car in the shade as much as possible. I’ve never had a problem though.
Have you ever wondered what a rangefinder camera is? Do you know how you would focus a rangefinder camera if you aren’t looking through the lens? Here is a short video explaining how rangefinder cameras work.
This is a PBS work that has been put up on youtube. I’m not sure if it will last there, but it is worth seeing. Love him or dislike him, Avedon has been very influencial in photography. Click here for Avedon on Amazon
For today’s viewing pleasure, a very short video of Paul Caponigro. He talks a little about his influences, his subjects and how he likes to do his daily still-life work. Click here to find Paul Caponigro’s work on Amazon
I watched this video and had to pick my jaw up off the floor so I could write this post.
This is an incredible photo studio. I feel like a total slacker for having the small space that I have. I guess I have different needs.
When you watch this video, look at how well this studio adapts to different needs, how he can do different kinds of subjects easily and how well it is lit. Brilliant stuff.
Today’s photography site of the day is Tom Johnston Photography. Tom is an art photographer working in black and white and E6 color.
I’ve featured Tom’s videos here before. I also ended up trading a lot of emails with him after I used some of his videos. Heck of a nice guy. He really knows his stuff too.
Tom has some beautiful work on his site. He mentioned in an email to me that he has a lot more art photography that hasn’t made it’s way up there yet. I’m really looking forward to seeing it.
Besides photography, he’s also an exceptionally good woodworker. Along with his own designs, he makes museum quality reproductions with hand tools.
I realized I have a lot of work to do to get to his levels in either hobby.
I’ve written before about Quinn Jacobson and Wet Plate Collodion photography, an all but forgotten technique of sensitizing sheets of glass and making exposures on that glass instead of our more modern plastic films. Jacobson practices and teaches this process.
Beginning as a reflection of his early life, the video transitioned to a good introduction of the techniques of wet plate photography. The video then transitioned again into an interview of his portraiture subjects.
These weren’t your ordinary subjects, the pretty people of life. Here his subjects are the people of his home town – people who generally would be considered the underbelly of society – criminals, mentally challenged, the physically and mentally handicapped. The type of people that a photographer generally leaves as soon as the photograph is taken. Here, however, the photographs were followed by interviews. These people were given a chance to tell a bit of their stories, a moving caption for the photographs. There was a sense of the dignity of the subject regardless of the trouble that person has had in life.
If you have a curiosity about old photographic techniques such as wet plate photography or if you’ve ever had the desire to see a subject as more than just the momentary focus of a camera, you might be interested in this two part video. I enjoyed it. I would have loved to have seen more.
I’ve never seen the process of making a bromoil print before. This is just fascinating stuff to me. It’s a very manual, labor intensive process and it’s beautiful.
