Hot Dog Stand, Martinsburg, WV

 I hope everyone is having a great summer so far. So I went out and started photographing last night literally right before that huge thunderstorm that swept the mid-Atlantic area, and I got this Jem with the 4x5 with fujiroid film.
Also, I have a new(ish) blog its gwendolynandthephotoshow.tumblr.com , I know its tumblr but its a start!

Skateboarding With 4x5

These are some recent 4x5 photographs I took while skateboarding with some friends. Im really interested using the 4x5 to photograph skateboarding, something I feel hasn't really been done in the skate magazine industry. To me, it gives the photograph a totally different feel and perspective, compared to the typical fisheye photos used in skate magazines. Super stoked on how these came out.

Hanger

This is from my first assignment in Ian's 264 class last fall. I wanted to express an idea that humans can be an accessory to clothing, as opposed to our clothing representing a staple of our identities.

4x5 negative dusting

About a three hour adventure in dusting/spotting a 4x5 negative, 2008. (The white spots are just an overlay of every area where the fixing brushes were used.)

Architecture In Bozeman

These are some of the first scans I’ve done of my 4×5 negatives. These are images I shot for my architecture assignment in 264. I wanted to play with the illusion of placing telephone poles atop buildings, with the focus on the telephone poles, something we are not normally drawn to when we think of architecture.

Better Scanning Trays

After reading about Jackson's success last year with the "Better Scanning" trays, I had to give it a shot. I just completed a whole bunch of tests and this is what I have gathered. The top image is a 100 percent crop @ 2400 DPI with the standard Epson 4x5 plastic trays that come with the V-750. The bottom is also a 100 percent crop @2400 DPI with the Better Scanning 4x5 tray. The difference in quality can easily be seen. The Better Scanning 4x5 tray is a little different than their medium and smaller format trays, in that you can either wet or dry mount the sheet to the glass. I opted for the anti-newton ring glass so I could dry mount (faster and easier) or have the option of wet mounting. What really made the difference was a matter of .2mm.

Street Vendors

Here is a quick unedited scan of a portrait I made about a week ago in Union Square. It is for my street vendor series, in which the USP grant is supporting. This guy was ridiculous. He was rehearsing to me a very fictional and confusing story about "Sausage Head" (the book he is holding). He was very anxious to leave and I literally set up the tripod, leveled the camera, focused, put the film in and pulled the darkslide in under 2 minutes flat. Everyone moves so fast in the city, I still do not know where 95 percent are going. I am also pretty sure cab drivers are like hermit crabs, once one car dies they crawl into the next and drive away.

a quick self portrait

This was a quick and dirty self portrait i made due to boredom at home, also to see if I prefer fuji to kodak.  Does anyone have experience wet mounting on the scanners, to scan full frame without getting newton rings?