Absecon Lighthouse as seen through the decay that was Atlantic City, NJ in 2005. Not the typical location for a lighthouse being a few blocks off the shoreline.
Category: 8×20
Today is an image from 2018 of the Stehli Silk Mill in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
August 2020, or should we write it 8/20? Time to feature some 8×20 images.
I thought I’d start off with an image of Juliana V. from 2015. I’ve had the set up for this shot on my About page for a while now. Here is the image from that setup.
Here is an image of Lana H. from 2015. Working with the 8×20 is both a great joy and a huge frustration. I have said before when everything goes right the negatives and prints are a joy to see. But as the negative size increases so do the number of things that can cause a failure in the photograph.
I’m about to head out this weekend for a shoot, and I am looking forward to working with the 8×20 again this weekend.
This image is of Helen W. on her farm from a session from 2016. One of the horses in the background was watching me and the big camera.
This is one of my best selling 8×20 images. This image was made as part of One Day in the Life of the Hudson, a shoot and show in 1992/1993 sponsored by the Hudson Highlands Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY.
This photograph later turned into one of my best selling images at the Robin Rice Gallery, in New York City.
In 1991 I wanted to test out a larger format then the 8×10 that I had been contact printing. So I picked up a Korona 8×20 Banquet Camera. The focusing bed on the Korona was not in great shape, so I pulled the back off the camera and placed it on a Raja 8×10 focusing bed.
The new camera did not fold after the modification but it was solid enough to use. I really didn’t want to spend much money on a format I wasn’t sure I was committed to. Four years later I had fallen head over heals in love with the format and picked up a Wisner 8×20 camera.
This was one of my early adventures out with the Korona/Raja 8×20 camera. There was something about the format that kept drawing me in.