March 2010 Archives

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Born in Romania in 1967 and currently living near Düsseldorf, Germany, Vernon Trent describes himself as a visual artist with the main focus in fine art photography.
His photographic work spans many facets, such as wet plate collodion, lith, alternative printing processes like salt prints, brom oil, platinum palladium as well as the traditional printing on silver gelatin.
Working with film invigorates Vernon's passion for photography. His photographic art has been exhibited and published worldwide.


By: Vernon Trent










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I bought a Fuji g617 about three years ago and since then have been trying to cover some of the more interesting scenery of Oregon.
I think the challenge of the wide format for me has been limiting in some ways but it has also helped refine my composition skills a bit. Composing with the wide format forces me to focus less on subject matter or various elements within the scene and more on balancing out the whole image, giving more consideration to the proportions of the image than to minor elements within it, and not allowing various elements within the image to dictate the proportions. Symmetry is much more important it seems in this format. If I shoot Portland's downtown waterfront buildings with a reflection of the buildings in the Willamette river, that dividing line between the buildings and the reflection has to be right in the middle. In other formats, and in a lot of similar shots I've done, other elements such as clouds or the shoreline in the foreground can alter the proportions of the whole image. Compositions that don't work in the 6x17 format are a lot more obvious than other formats.
One drawback to this camera, it has a fairly slow lens. It's maximum aperture is F/8. That, plus a center spot filter ( one stop) for correcting light fall off from the wide angle creates a challenge when shooting in dimly lit areas like here in the northwest. I shoot a lot of images in the 10 to 30 second range when I add a polarizer.
Even so, I love this camera. It will always have a big, uncomfortable, cavernous spot in my camera bag.



photo:mediajoy


Images were taken with a Fuji g617 medium format panoramic camera. It has a fixed 105mm f/8 lens, about a 24mm equivalent in 35mm lenses. 4 shots per roll of 120 film.
Most of the images were taken in northern Oregon, a couple in Washington.
Film was scanned into my computer using a Canon Canoscan 8600f flatbed scanner

Matt  Abinante (USA)












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More on the Fuji G617 here
A review here
Same format other camera. The Linhof Technorama 617s III
Panoramic photography on Wikipedia