After posting my last impression on the Ritter 7×11/8×10, Richard contacted me asking me to send him the base of the camera for an update. He made a modification to the base of the system that should help stabilize it on those windy days.
Now, in my book that means a lot, because it means that [...]
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Additional Update on Ritter 8×10
Posted in Photography on March 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
1300 Miles of Windshield Time
Posted in Photography on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1300 Miles of Windshield Time …. or 24 hours of driving in 5 days and not making a single photograph.
I recently went on a trip to Lubbock, with a couple of other guys from the Texas Church Project, to install the latest work from the project at Texas Tech University. The morning I left there [...]
Ritter 7×11/8×10 Re-visited
Posted in Photography on January 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, it’s been a bit over 3 months since the brown box arrived and I added the images of the camera. Seems like a good time to reflect on using the camera.
When it first arrived, I spent some time setting the camera up then folding it up. The exercise, per Bruce Barlow, is known as [...]
Happy Holidays
Posted in Photography on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hope this finds everyone enjoying the holiday season. With the economy the way it is, this is a good time to remind everyone that you can still give a special gift without spending a great deal of money.
How? Well I’m glad you ask (aren’t you?). Photographers love to share what they have been working on. [...]
Practice, Practice, Practice
Posted in Photography on October 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If there is one thing I have learned while shooting large format, it is you have to practice your craft.
I was out last weekend for the first time since Memorial Day weekend. I had been waiting for the new Ritter camera to come in, plus work and life in general kept getting in the way. [...]
Photographers are junkies
Posted in Photography on October 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photographers are junkies, well sort of…
Really, most photographers are junkies – they fall into one of the following groups”
Equipment Junkies – these are the photographers that have bounce around from camera to camera, lens to lens, etc. Nothing wrong with this, as long as one realizes that they enjoy the equipment more than making photographs.
Format [...]
What Does Ike Have to do with Photography?
Posted in Photography on September 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wasn’t even in Texas when Ike hit the upper Texas coast, but the news of Ike left me with a sinking feeling nonetheless. Why? What DOES Ike have to do with photography?
Working on the Texas Church Project has been as much an education on life along the Texas coast 100 plus years ago. Many of [...]
New Ritter 7×11/8×10 Camera
Posted in Photography on September 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There is nothing like a new camera to get you going..and here is my new Ritter 7×11/8×10 camera, made by master camera maker Richard Ritter.
The camera arrived today (9/20/2008) and I plan to spend some time ‘cuddling’ to get a feel for the camera. The phrase cuddling a camera comes from Bruce Barlow, his way of [...]
Photographic Memory
Posted in Photography, Uncategorized on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a camera involved with my life, in some way, as far back as I can remember. Be it a holiday event, like Christmas, or a family gathering, or some other life event there has always been a camera around.
When my mother passed away a few years ago, I became the ‘keeper’ of the [...]
Format – What Size?
Posted in Photography on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Working with film is still a joy for me. Like many photographers, I started with 35mm, then came roll film (aka medium format) and finally large format (first for me was 4×5).
My preferred method of printing is contact printing. Coating a nice piece of paper with platinum and palladium (with some ferric oxalate), allowing it [...]
