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You see them all over universities, little memorials, gifts, and the such. The University of Findlay in lovely Findlay, Ohio, is no different, and this week’s subject is one such memorial. This is the restored bell that once sat in the tower of the Old Main building. It was given as a gift to the university, fully restored and mounted on a new tower from the classes of 1953 and 2003. I thankfully met up with the FPP gang at Findlay to catch the final day of Walking Workshop after a couple of rough nights of attempting to camp, but Sunday dawned bright, sunny andRead More →

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Back in April, at the FPP Walking Workshop I had the chance to work with some studio lights. One of the things to come out of the first round with the studio light was the Polaroid Portraits that I was very proud of. But on Sunday, before the Large Format workshop kicked off, I again hooked up one of my cameras to the same light and, with the help of Professor Jeff, got all the settings landed and began to pull people in attendance into my studio for a quick shot. Loaded into my camera was a single roll of Kodak Portra 160NC (one ofRead More →

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This past weekend at the Film Photography Project’s Walking Workshop in lovely downtown Findlay, Ohio, at the Polaroid Party at the University, they had a couple of stations set up for portrait work. I had used by trusty Auto 250 (Polaroid Model 250 Automatic Land Camera) at Milton’s Help-Portrait event a couple of years back now, which was a hit, but I never thought to hook it up to a studio light. The camera is equipped with a PC socket which allows you to hook up an electronic flash mounted on a bracket, or a radio trigger. Mat’s massive Sinar P2 8×10 camera took theRead More →