Thursday, November 15, 2007

old decaying buildings


a photograph from summer semester for our large format portfolio. this is a 4x5 kodak e100g film negative scanned in. absolutely no photoshopping. i scheimpfluged the front standard of the camera while keeping the rear standard level to get the window distortion. the hardest part was standing with a 20 pound camera + tripod on a floor that has (obviously) sunk into itself, while also getting the sun leaking through the roof while keeping everything level. and if you've ever shot on a large format sinar camera, you know it's hard enough to keep it level on concrete.

3 comments:

Melisa Ann said...

man, I don't know how you show this with almost no floor, but you did extremely well. I hope you got a good grade on this because the lighting, camera position/height, and dof are just awesome. old buildings ftw.

Sophia Zimmerman said...

Awesome photo.... I like the lighting it seems to age it more.

Meghan Barrett said...

I love this. Great texture and cool feeling mood. Great job marshmellow!