Grant Gunderson is a local Bellingham photographer who shoots a bunch of skiing and other outdoor sports. Of course he’s more on the action photography side of things, but I find much of his work quite inspiring, especially the image below. Here’s his website
I haven’t done much film photography before, so I learned a lot from the reading. It made many of the things we went over in class a little more clear. The sections on altering the contrast, exposure, and density of the photographs during development was very interesting. It’s always interesting to see how those things are done in the analog world. The section on photograms was interesting as well, I remember doing those as a kid in my Dad’s darkroom. Liquid photographic emulsion is also intriguing to me, I’d love to experiment with that.
I enjoyed the reading, it was very informative. Much of it was review, but since I haven’t worked much with film cameras before, those sections were very enlightening. I liked the sections about the eye and how it relates to camera mechanics. The pinhole camera stuff was cool too. It’s amazing that something that simple can make a photograph! I really want to try to make one.
I'd love to see this print in person.
I saw a short film made by this guy last year. He’s an incredible landscape photographer from Australia. In my opinion his photographs are pretty inspiring.
For this project he biked a ton of camera gear into the middle of Lake Eyre, a dry lake in the Australian Outback. The lakebed is so enormous that from the center of it nothing can be seen but a perfectly flat horizon in every direction. He took some amazing images on large-format film. He calls it “a landscape without landscape.” The first image above above is after a rainstorm left water covering the ground a few inches deep from the viewpoint to the razor-thin horizon. Perhaps somewhat boring and featureless, but I think it has an intriguing, otherworldly quality, especially since it doesn’t have any digital manipulation. It almost looks like a gradient you might make with Photoshop.
He spent weeks out there, alone, and judging by the film he made, went kind of crazy from being in such a desolate, featureless place for so long.
Check out his website, it has several more incredible pictures.
His tent and bike on the lakebed.