The Large Format Photography Podcast

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Simon Forster

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Andrew Bartram

https://daveshrimpton.co.uk/

Friday May 22, 2020

#29 How Heavy Is Your Lens, With Dave Shrimpton

Friday May 22, 2020

Eventually, when some form of “normal” re-establishes itself, we will meet Dave in real life, spend some hours with him and live in his world a bit. Until then let’s make do with this great conversation between three large format enthusiasts.

Dave’s links

https://www.instagram.com/dave_shrimpton/

Things we chatted about on the show:

Jeff Perry got a few mentions, former guest and the genius behind 20^th Century Camera.

https://20thcenturycamera.com/

“Photographers I’ve always admired and influence me”

http://www.vivianmaier.com/

https://www.davidburnett.com/

https://intaruka.wordpress.com/

https://huxleyparlour.com/artists/herbert-ponting/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothea-Lange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Brigman

http://grahamcopekoga.com/

A continued BIG thankyou to those lovely folks who go to the effort to make a Ko-Fi donation – believe me its not easy!

Other News

The inaugural LFPP Gathering in the forest 2020 has been cancelled. Lets see how COVID pans out over the summer but my guess this will now be moved to Spring 2021.

And….

Much to Simon’s dismay the Six Towns Darkroom is in lock down for the time being.

Also Simon is selling radio-active hard to find lenscaps to amuse you in these dark days.

LFPP links -

You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group

Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –

Or from Simon –

Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast

largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com

Podcast Hosts Social Media presence

Simon Forster

https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/

Andrew Bartram

https://www.instagram.com/humbersetfoto/?hl=en

Friday May 01, 2020

#28 PROJECT: Svein Olav Humberset

Friday May 01, 2020

Our guest this week thoroughly enjoyed the words of wisdom that Borut shared with us on our last show (as did many others), not worrying when it doesn’t go to plan, if the shots don’t work out. Own the emotion, learn and move on. Incorporate it into your art; make it a part of the “ritual” of creativity. It was against this background the host of Viewfinder Vikings Podcast, commercial and fine art photographer Svein Olav Humberset joined us to talk mainly about photographic projects, why bother, the challenges, the opportunities and well, you get the idea.

Simon is off to photograph his garden from the same spot, every Month for 10 years...

Svein’s links

See examples of Svein’s atmospheric images from Norway at his IG site

His website

http://www.humbersetfoto.com/

Listen to Svein and Ian Barnaby Nutt at the Viewfinder Vikings Podcast (it’s great)

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/viewfinder-vikings-podcast/id1436597744

Things we chatted about on the show:

The "Knowledgeable Simon Forster" was asked to write the foreword to a digitised book of the travel photos of Kurt Hielscher “Unknown Spain” – take a look here:

https://large-format-photography.org/

Of course we couldn’t get through this particular show without referencing show #27 with Borut Peterlin in particular the moving video he had just posted in memory of Mike his dog.

Grab some tissues and watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUx-2IB9QA

Simon gave a shout out to former guest on the show Kate Miller-Wilson. Kate has moved on from electrocuting herself in the quest for inner realisation and is now making some lovely wet plate images and sharing her journey in IG.

https://www.instagram.com/katemillerwilson/?hl=en

Svein gave shout outs to former guests Borut (see above) and Alys Tomlinson.

See Alys’s work here.

http://www.alystomlinson.co.uk/

Other News

The inaugural LFPP Gathering in the forest 2020 has been cancelled. Lets see how COVID pans out over the summer but my guess this will now be moved to Spring 2021.

And….

Much to Simon’s dismay the Six Towns Darkroom is in lock down for the time being.

Also Simon is selling radio-active hard to find lens caps to amuse you in these dark days.

LFPP links -

You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group

Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –

Or from Simon –

Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast

largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com

Podcast Hosts Social Media presence

Simon Forster

https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/

Andrew Bartram

http://www.topshitphotography.com/

Saturday Apr 18, 2020

#27 Topshit Photography With Borut Peterlin

Saturday Apr 18, 2020

Another show that's been long in the making, and it comes three weeks in to a UK lockdown due to COVID-19, with photographers trying to make sense of it all, trying to find motivation, maybe dealing with anxiety or frustration.

Borut Peterlin is a man consumed with his art-work, seeking self-expression through a +100 year old medium, communing with nature, exploring the meaning of rituals in life.

Borut’s YouTube channel is a must watch, Simon you need to play it through your TV in your living room, it comes to life then and is much more interesting that Casualty……

We didn’t talk about gear at all, this was a thoughts and ideas show and was all the better for it, but listen and see for yourself.

Borut’s links

https://www.instagram.com/borutpeterlin/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjjZ-Qc43dF7xHBC92MAuA

Things we chatted about on the show:

Borut’s latest body of work the New Earth Project which I think is a complete change of lifestyle for him and not just a passing project, was influenced by work shown in Berlin by Cuban conceptual artist Ana Mendieta- here is a link to work that was on show at the Tate.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ana-mendieta-11167

Writer, thinker and author Eckhart Tolle

https://www.eckharttolle.com/

Thinker, writer and philosopher Alan Watts

https://www.alanwatts.org/

Other News

We didn’t mention this but along with Photostock 2020 the inaugural LFPP Gathering in the forest 2020 has been cancelled. Lets see how COVID pans out over the summer but my guess this will now be moved to Spring 2021.

And….

Much to Simon’s dismay the Six Towns Darkroom is in lock down for the time being.

Also Simon is selling radio-active hard to find lens caps to amuse you in these dark days.

And a dog piss soaked 3D printer just arrived at his house

LFPP links -

You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group

Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –

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Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast

largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com

Podcast Hosts Social Media presence

Simon Forster

https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/

Andrew Bartram

https://www.facebook.com/PhotoByWayneSetser/

Friday Apr 03, 2020

#26 Wayne Setser & The Long Awaited Email Show

Friday Apr 03, 2020

We’ve been threatening to have an email / listener show for a while so we thought this would be a good opportunity to do that in a short show, of course it didn’t quite work out that way.

It’s a good job we didn’t have any more emails to read out.

Wayne’s links

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wsetser/

Things we chatted about on the show:

We answered emails from;

Chris Frear

https://www.chrisfrear.co.uk/index

Tom DiCorcia

https://www.facebook.com/tdicorcia?comment_id=Y29tbWVudDoyNjIyNTAwMDk3OTc0NzIzXzI2MjMyNDg4Nzc4OTk4NDU%3D

Ian Flemming

https://www.instagram.com/ifleming/

Mark Fohl

https://www.facebook.com/mark.fohl.5?fref=search&__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARA2ykGsYI3Xl94I8rEnE8syxwq4aKWrLIU1bkPrlTpeoKY098apnEPh7ptf8o-OYkAAq7Zvujmyu5YO

Bob Matter

https://www.instagram.com/bobmatter/

And the show he plugged which you can’t see at the moment.

https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9167/signs-and-wonders-the-photographs-of-john-beasley-greene

Andrew shared the tale of cutting a hole in the wooden lens board kindly made by Neil Piper’s Dad – you can check out Neil in various places but the best place to hear him is with Alex Purcell

https://anchor.fm/neil-piper

Wayne recommended a spiffing adjustable tool to cut holes

https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-adjustable-holesaw-with-cowl-29cm-9-piece-set/2571v?fbclid=IwAR3YIfXM6StVpCz9Uc4IszJ9D1Pfl-xA63uaozhrYZP_GjrKsiMiKwL3p6A#product_additional_details_container

We moved on to address some questions from the FB group specifically from;

AJ White

https://www.facebook.com/adtamrobtay?fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARA6GfQ4rnA-osuWLstNhSuLMyLBtTA9m3arlJZyDJvKTv1gh5pp7X1p31hR9qAn957n1fxBLjDDUfKW&hc_ref=ARTxjPOc1CfokFpe-xEc7LCkCQ_Rf-mY5t4gAC-uxUPxlmQr1k4q3IdYzM4Le76pom0&dti=2296599290564807&hc_location=group_dialog

and Svein Olav Humberset who also has a podcast with Ian Barnaby Nutt

https://anchor.fm/viewfindervikings/episodes/Episode-22---Free-Film-ealhm8

Andrew and Wayne gave book shout outs

Dialogue with Photography

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30219311191&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3Ddialogue%2Bwith%2Bphotography&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2

Ways of Seeing

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/john-berger/ways-of-seeing/GOR001256569?msclkid=baa71b88bfdb138c1e6a450e4ec488b1&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=SP%20-%20Books%20-%20Desktop%20-%20%C2%A35.00%20-%20%C2%A35.49%20-%20Bing%20Only&utm_term=4575617640877501&utm_content=%C2%A35.00%20-%20%C2%A35.49

Photographers on Photography

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30595277029&searchurl=isbn%3D9780136647553%26n%3D100121503%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1

Currently our meet up at the end of May is still on, BUT, if you haven’t already booked you may want to hold on a while to see how the plague settles down or not.

Why not join us at the “LFPP 2020 Gathering in the Forest” over the weekend of 29^th and 30^th May.

Bracelands Camp site, Forest of Dean (that’s in the UK for those in the colonies) –

www.campingintheforest.co.uk

Thanks to all those who donated using the Ko-Fi site and to our email contributors, we finally managed to answer some (well two) before running out of time.

Simon's wonderful lens caps!

https://simonforsterphotographic.co.uk/collections/new-3d-printed-lens-caps

And……

Much to Simon’s dismay the Six Towns Darkroom is in lock down for the time being.

LFPP links -

You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group

Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –

Or from Simon –

largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com

Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast

Podcast Hosts Social Media presence

Simon Forster

https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/

Andrew Bartram

https://www.peterdefty.com/

Friday Mar 20, 2020

#25 Tangentially Speaking with Peter Defty

Friday Mar 20, 2020

I am not sure what to say about this other than what a great guest, making great work and with a wonderful story to tell. Feeling very inspired in these dark days of plague and pestilence after two hours with Peter. In other news, we finally read out Jeremy North's email from January, never let it be said that we would ever leave a good email behind.

Peter’s links

https://www.instagram.com/peterdefty/?hl=en

Things we chatted about on the show:

Peter came to our attention via Paul Bullock during a conversation that Simon had with him at the Six Towns Darkroom (another plug). Paul and Peter are both members of the Royal Photographic Society Analogue Group.

https://rps.org/groups/analogue/

Artist and Ethnographer Edward Curtiss and his documentation of Native Americans.

https://edwardcurtis.com/

Mr Cad and his wonderful photo store when Peter was putting together his large camera.

https://www.mrcad.co.uk/

Legendary darkroom printer Robin Bell.

http://robinbell.com/

Peter said his Outlaw and Miner prints are made to look like photogravure prints – still clueless?

https://photogravure.com/process/

Peter sources most of his paper from specialist paper supplier to the art world R.K.Burt.

https://www.rkburt.com/

Social Anthropologist Sara Pink.

https://theconversation.com/profiles/sarah-pink-109198

Jack Lowe (Grandson of Arthur) has been documenting RNLI crews for a while now using large format cameras.

https://lifeboatstationproject.com/

Custom Bellows in Birmingham offer a great bellows replacement service as well as selling Bulldog self-assembly LF cameras.

http://www.custombellows.co.uk/index.html

Peter uses a piece of shareware to locally manage print tonality .

http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRoverview.html

Process supplies got a shout out – they are a great supplier for all things film and darkroom.

https://www.processuk.net/

Currently our meet up at the end of May is still on, BUT, if you haven’t already booked you may want to hold on a while to see how the plague settles down or not.

Why not join us at the “LFPP 2020 Gathering in the Forest” over the weekend of 29^th and 30^th May.

Bracelands Camp site, Forest of Dean (that’s in the UK for those in the colonies) –

www.campingintheforest.co.uk

Andrew will be arriving on the Friday and Simon on the Saturday. The main “gathering” will be Saturday evening when we hope to share witty tales of large format japes, drink adult beverages and eat burnt food…..what’s not to love.

Thanks to all those who donated using the Ko-Fi site and to our email contributors, we finally managed to answer some (well two) before running out of time.

And……

Much to Simon’s dismay the Six Towns Darkroom is in lock down for the time being.

LFPP links -

You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group

Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –

Or from Simon –

Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast

largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com

Podcast Hosts Social Media presence

Simon Forster

https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/

Andrew Bartram

https://www.facebook.com/swhiser

Friday Mar 06, 2020

#24 Sam Hiser – The Real Negative Positives

Friday Mar 06, 2020

Today we chat to Sam West who, along with Bob Crowley was behind the successful 2014 Kickstarter campaign to bring back a 4x5 Positive Negative instant film.

Despite numerous setbacks New55 PN film is still being made and sold by Sam and his small team of elves in New England. Sam talks to us about that journey, his love of all things large format and where next……

Sam’s links

https://www.instagram.com/swhiser/?hl=en

https://famousformat.com/

Things we chatted about on the show:

Sam talked about his engagement with the Featherstone Centre for the Arts. https://www.featherstoneart.org/

Sam touched on the different “families” of lens design, Simon got quite excited at this point and referenced his other podcast and the recent episode where Jason Lane gets into his lens design stride, catch it here.

https://www.classiclensespodcast.com/e/100-jason-lane-returns/

Tobias Feltus was a big supporter of the Kickstarter campaign and made some wonderful images to support the project using New55 PN material. See some of his images here and links to others

https://gallery.new55.net/tobias-feltus/#1

We got chatting about shutter repairs and camera repairs and Sam mentioned Bob Odess the go to Hassy man in the USA / World maybe.

http://david-odess.com/sales.html

Andrew then mentioned Lyndon from Londinium Camera Repairs who offers a great service and his communication is excellent.

https://londiniumcameras.com

Previous guest on the show (number 20) Kate Miller-Wilson published an article in PetaPixel showcasing the superb LF work she has been doing, using static electricity to create some otherworldly self portraits. Read the article here.

https://petapixel.com/2020/03/03/unique-self-portraits-made-by-zapping-4x5-film-with-static-electricity/?fbclid=IwAR0mhI7xYmK4kIt1AYt8Mg86lZ1OAPz0RF5OcHLkuPFJnqemTr6xJmyamrw

Another previous guest who has gone on to stardom thanks to Simon and Andrew is the lovely Sandeha Lynch, Sandeha was a guest on the most recent episode of the Homemade Camera Podcast and here is a link to that episode.

http://homemadecamera.com/e44-sandeha-lynch/

Why not come and join us the “LFPP 2020 Gathering in the Forest” over the weekend of 29^th and 30^th May.

Bracelands Camp site, Forest of Dean (that’s in the UK for those in the colonies) –

www.campingintheforest.co.uk

Thanks to all those who donated using the Ko-Fi site and to our email contributors, we finally managed to answer some (well two) before running out of time.

And……

If you live anywhere near Stoke On Trent then why not get in touch with Simon and coma along to the 6 Towns Darkroom on a Tuesday evening

You know how to find him

Sam suggested a couple of books for those who like such things.

“Dialogue with photography” by Paul Hill – find it on Amazon

And “The On Going Moment” by Geoff Dyer

LFPP links -

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Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –

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Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast

largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com

Podcast Hosts Social Media presence

Simon Forster

https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/

Andrew Bartram

http://www.travisbrianlinville.com/

Friday Feb 14, 2020

#23 Travis Linville, Nose to Ass Brass & Glass.

Friday Feb 14, 2020

After a recommendation by Bob Matter and many months of being “on our list”, it was with great pleasure that we finally got to talk with Travis Linville about his love for wet plate portraits and analogue photography.

Travis lives near Chicago so of course listeners to the Classic Lenses Podcast will know that we had to start the conversation by asking him what the weather was like.

Things we chatted about on the show:

Why not come and join us the “LFPP 2020 Gathering in the Forest” over the weekend of 29^th and 30^th May.

Bracelands Camp Site, Forest of Dean (that’s in the UK for those in the colonies) –

www.campingintheforest.co.uk/england/forest-of-dean/bracelands-campsite

In preparation for our Gathering in the Forest, Andrew bought new ground glass for his wooden Bomm L45 camera and to say he’s pleased with it is an understatement.

Check out virgisst on ebay, he’s in Lithuania and super low prices and high quality, Thoroughly recommended.

Travis hasn’t been making wet plate images for all that long, one of his inspirations for portraits was Giles Clement and you can see his work here.

www.gilesclement.com

Thanks to all those who donated using the Ko-Fi site and to our email contributors, we finally managed to answer some (well two) before running out of time.

And……

If you live anywhere near Stoke On Trent then why not get in touch with Simon and coma along to the 6 Towns Darkroom on a Tuesday evening

You know how to find him

LFPP links -

You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group

Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –

Or from Simon –

Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast

largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com

Podcast Hosts Social Media presence

Simon Forster

https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/

Andrew Bartram

https://galerie-photo.com/berthiot-anastigmats-en.html

Friday Jan 24, 2020

#22 Bill Schwab, Photostock, LFPP Festival In The Forest...?

Friday Jan 24, 2020

Bill has been on the LFPP radar pretty much since we started the show and Graham Vasey mentioned him as they had met on one of his Iceland organised trips. Andrew had heard Mat Marrash talk about Bill years ago on the FPP when he interviewed Bill at his “PhotoStock” annual gathering in Michigan.

Well it’s taken us to show 22 but we are sure glad we finally managed to get him on, hope you enjoy the chat.

Things we chatted about on the show

Andrew bought an old lens on ebay – he can't pronounce the name but the lens seems to have an interesting back story

Once attached to a lens board Andrew wants to use the lens to shoot Jason Lane’s dry plates that have now landed in the UK and are available from Analogue Wonderland

https://analoguewonderland.co.uk/products/j-lane-dry-plates-4x5-plate-film-iso-2

Specifically the ISO 2 plates which he thinks will be perfect for making salt prints

On the subject of salt prints Andrew and Bill both recommended books

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salt-Print-Manual-Ellie-Young/dp/144528328X

and http://www.alternativephotography.com/salted-paper-printing-a-step-by-step-manual-highlighting-contemporary-artists/

The latter is by Christine Anderson who Bill speaks very highly of and has published a number of books on alternative processes.

Bill spoke about creating digital negatives and indeed is collaborating with the aforementioned Christine Anderson on a book all about making them.

Andrew referenced James Guerin who was the guest on show 81 of The Lensless Podcast and James uses a software tool called ChartThrob that easily makes printer print profiles for your digital negatives.

https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast/episodes/Show-81-James-Guerin-returns-ea4pmm

http://www.botzilla.com/gearhead/2006/10/24/ChartThrob-A-Tool-for-Printing-Digital-Negatives.html

Bill mentioned a number of photographers who attend his PhotoStock gathering check out his website for 2020

http://www.photostockfest.com/

Save The Date!
We are in the very early stages of "organising" our own low key version of Photostock. The work in progress plan is to do something over the second May Bank Holiday weekend 30th/31st May in a field at The Forest of Dean, Gloucester, UK

Shout outs to Matt Marrash all round good guy

http://matmarrash.com/

Thanks to Jeremey North, Dan Tree and Greg Obst who have donated to the show since we had Max from Intrepid on

And……

If you live anywhere near Stoke On Trent then why not get in touch with Simon and coma along to the 6 Towns Darkroom on a Tuesday evening. You know how to find him!

LFPP links -

You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group

Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew –

Or from Simon –

Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast

largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com

Podcast Hosts Social Media presence

Simon Forster

https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/

Andrew Bartram

http://brightondarkroom.org.uk/

Friday Jan 10, 2020

#21 Intrepid To The Max!

Friday Jan 10, 2020

After 20 very well received shows since we began this podcast last year, for some time we considered retiring from the fame, stardom and wealth that this has brought us. I convinced Simon that we should carry on at least through 2020 as there are many more brilliant guests we can have on the show.

So we start 2020 with an industry big hitter Max Grew from Intrepid Camera. Since the successful Kickstarter in 2014 Max and his growing team have shipped over 5,000 brand new cameras – it’s a statistic we find staggering and really encouraging in this hi tech world.

So thanks to Max for taking the time to bring us up to date with all that’s happening with you – exciting times ahead.

Things we chatted about on the show

Max uses the Brighton Community Darkroom to print his work – it looks to be a brilliant resource if you are in the area – check out their website

Andrew mentioned DeVere as they are also in Brighton – listen to episode 19 or head over to their website for enlargers, lenses and other spares – or just some sound advice from John Boyce

http://odyssey-sales.co.uk/

Andrew referenced Ansel Adam’s book “The Camera” as a superb reference for all things Large Format which he bought back in the 1980s it is still in print and reasonably priced

https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Photo-Camera-Ansel-Adams/dp/0821221841/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ansel+adams+the+camera&qid=1578647837&sr=8-1

If you live anywhere near Stoke On Trent then why not get in touch with Simon and coma along to the 6 Towns Darkroom on a Tuesday evening

You know how to find him

Andrew mentioned the Stearman Press 8x10 daylight developing tank which appears in the Firstcall Photogaphic Catalogue – this is likely to be imported by Morco Photographic and both suppliers are really worth checking out

https://www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk/

https://www.morco.uk.com/

Excitement is building at the prospect of the imminent UK availability of Pictoriographica dry plates – we think at Analogue Wonderland

https://www.pictoriographica.com/online-shop.html

https://analoguewonderland.co.uk/

and of course the successful KickStarter to deliver brand new dry plate holders – the ChromaGraphica will be available soon

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dryplateholder/the-chromagraphica-double-dry-plate-holder

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