Herschel,
Even though I have no interest in using vintage equipment either I wouldn't call any of the original methods a yawn to look at. Independent of the formal qualities and subjets, each type of picture has a unique and beautiful material quality. If you are getting that kind of thrill with with your present methods, terrific. If not, I'd worry. Reminds me of the thread RE Weston's peppers where someone just couldn't see what the fuss was about - although, I'm sure you still fully appreciate their beauty.
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Subject: going back to 4x5
From: Herschel Mair <herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, November 17, 2006 2:40 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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There's something romantic about hauling out the old Sinar 4x5 P-Expert kit and
the 50lb tripod, loading another 20 lbs of film-holders and piling it all into
the jeep in search of the lost landscape....
Ansel's images filled me with awe over 25 years ago. I thought he was too good
to be from this planet. I lived, slept and dreamed the zone system for years. I
taught it with such enthusism too. I'd spend whole weekends in the darkroom
without sleep and love it
Now I look at those same images and find that I've grown out of them. I've
moved on. I don't know when it happened... But I now lo ok at half of Ansel's
and 70% of my work from the 70's and 80's and ... YAWN.
They're still a part of me and I apprreciate all they gave me, but I don't know
if I want to go back there.
Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Adobe Certified instructor
+ (986) 99899 673
www.herschelmair.com
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