More Large Format

These are just some large format photos that, I think, were just practice ones. I don't recall these being for anything specific but they came out pretty good.

Angelica

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Large Format Photography- Fake Flowers

Now that I've got some major stuff that had to get done finished (basically replacing my car), I can do this longer-than-usual post about this project that I did in college. One of the photography classes that was offered was a large format course. That was one of those things that seemed very daunting, but ended up being a lot of fun (it made me want to get a large format camera). The photos are from the final project that I did for that class (I have other photos from that class that I will post another time). What I ended up doing for that class was setting up simple still life arrangements with fake flowers, photographing them, hand-processing the film, and then taking the negatives and scanning them into the computer. Once scanned, I did very minimal editing in Photoshop (adding a warm tone to each one) and then I printed them out of translucent 8x10 vellum paper, and then laying those prints over a warm-toned basic 8x10 drawing paper (I'll post pictures of that set up another time). I had intentions of making them into a book but I ran out of time and ended up just leaving them as individual prints (I may bind them together at some point; I'm not sure about it though). 

Julia Margaret Cameron Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Image Source: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?exhibitionId=%7b79EB91E1-D244-4348-A0E6-16A692A72049%7d&oid=268709&pg=2&rpp=20&pos=22&ft=*

I came across this article on the internet a few days ago: Julia Margaret Cameron's Victorian- Era Celebrity Photographs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an exhibit of her work that will be up until the beginning of January. I remembered her name from the history of photography class that I took in college about two to three years ago and I remembered liking her work. For those of you who have not heard of her, Julia Margaret Cameron is a well known Victorian photography whose main focus was portraiture photography. She did not start photography until after her children were grown; her daughter was actually the person who gave Cameron her first camera in 1863. Many of the people she used as models were from British artistic and literary circles but she also photographed people she found "beautiful or full of character."(Rosenblum, pg. 80) All of her work that I've seen are Albumen prints, which I will explain the process of when I can dig my book of alternative photo processes out of the bottom of my bookcase :) (I have too many books which leads to me having to dig stuff out of rather than just being able to access them easily as you should be able to get books from a bookcase).

Angelica

*Note: The information above on Julia Margaret Cameron is from the text book that I have from my history of photography class: "A World History of Photography" (Fourth Edition) by Naomi Rosenblum. You'll often see me cite information like I'm writing a paper because that's the easiest way for me to remember to give the source of the information since I'm in the habit of doing it that way from my college classes.