Thursday, August 8, 2019

the mystique of mediom format black and white

Black and white has a certain mystique, a certain aura. It's because it is very graphic and shoes the essentials of an image. It is like radio as opposed to TV or movies. When one uses medium format the graphic nature increases because of the almost unreal sharpness. These images were shot with a Mamyia 654 and Tri-X Pan professional.





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