by stevesherman | Jun 14, 2017 | Process Tips
Hartford City Hall Staircase 110mm Schneinder Super Symar FP 4 f 22.5 @ 3 minutes 15 secs. N – 4 Pyrocat HD Minimal Agitation The Eye / Brain relationship can process huge amounts of contrast and therefore many times with Film we have to compress huge...
by stevesherman | Jun 7, 2017 | Process Tips
My rebuttal to the Magic Formulas and Photographer’s Romance with the Nonsense is at the end in italics, but first here is a direct comparison between two identically exposed 7″ X 17 ” J&C 200 film shot back in 2003 and processed upon my...
by stevesherman | May 28, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
Two good friends and I, all Large Format photographers from Connecticut, planned a trip to the Canyonlands National Park for the express purpose of hiking the Salt Creek to photograph Angel Arch. Park Rangers explained the beginning of the excursion would be down...
by stevesherman | May 13, 2017 | Process Tips
https://youtu.be/zHqkIKFJ10c This Month’s Process Tip may seem very obvious, however, over the years I have lead scores of workshops with students numbering in the hundreds. I have seen Reciprocity charts tucked neatly away in the backpack, or worst yet...
by stevesherman | Apr 28, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
Beginning Labor Day Monday of 1997 I began approximately a 6-week obsession with the Fafnir Ball bearing plant in New Britain CT. The factory was being razed and was fenced off from the public, my friend Peter Bosco and James Monteiro had been here several times...