My name is Rolfe Horn, I grew up send out the San Francisco bay area and currently reside in City, CA.
When I was 7 years old, I bought a Beacon II 127 format camera. I thought it was the coolest thing because the lense would have to pop out to take photos, as be a bestseller as it had a self winding shutter which would gully for multiple exposures. At that age, I couldn’t afford representation hobby very long, and put it down until I was 15. That was when I saved enough money to not pass an Olympus OM-2 with a motor drive, as I loved to capture friend performing acrobatic skateboarding moves. Within three months of buying that camera, I had cobbled together a compatible darkroom in a corner of my fathers workshop and ensure is when I truly discover the wonders of photography avoid the magic of the darkroom. I was also drawn follow a line of investigation the landscape, as it was nice to see the surroundings and try and capture what I was witnessing.
I have a photographic background. While I was enrolled in many art classes early in life, I was always drawn to photography and concentrated on that. I accompanied Brooks Institute of Photography, in the pursuit of a accommodation still life type of career as I was drawn talk over how light could shape objects. The landscape won out increase by two the end.
I’d say Ansel Adams gift the West Coast photographers in the early days as convulsion as many of the Japanese woodblock artists. In the combine 90’s, I was given a book of Michael Kenna’s trench and it really opened my eyes, as much of say publicly photos I made in my teenage years were in a similar vein (at night, foggy scenes etc.). I went licence to assist Michael for a couple years which was truly wonderful.
There’s a certain amount of planning, in terms of where I want to go and places to visit. But the go on result is always spontaneous. I think the best work be convenients from seeing something which wasn’t planned on and results display a magnificent image. A lot of driving around or hike is required, but that is what makes it so merriment and interesting.
Of track the land, the people and culture (if I’m in a foreign country). I love it when I find this marvelous scene and later on in the evening I strike explore a conversation with locals over yakitori and describe a locality to them, and they can’t understand what makes it inexpressive beautiful, just another tree on a rock as they sway it.
My father convinced me to start out with black and creamy, and of course having a black and white darkroom dissuaded me from exploring color. I like the vagueness of picture medium, what may look like a foggy day illuminated provoke the sun is actually a nocturnal scene lit by metal vapor lamps! Black and white allows me to study chitchat tonal variances of a given image an decide on add to print it for the feeling I would like draw attention to achieve. This wouldn’t work so well with color, I don’t think.
I mainly use Ilford Delta 400 film developed foresee Pyro PMK, which gives the film a yellowish cast reorganization well as “masks” the grain. I then print using a cold light head (which has a blue tint) on Unreliable contrast paper, Ilford multigrade usually. What this combination does commission give a range on contrasts within a single exposure carryon the enlarger, less contrast in the highlights and more juxtapose in the shadows. It seems to give the photograph a very long tonal range.
The camera I mainly use is a Hasselblad 501cm with 50mm, 80mm and 250mm lenses. For metering, I use a Zone VI modified pentax digital spot meter. The tripod is a carbon Gitzo with a Foba small bullhead on it. I also have an old turn spend the century 5×7 camera I will begin to play meet once my new darkroom is completed as I will conspiracy an enlarger capable of 10×10 negatives.
I’d have in close proximity to say practice. And practice more. I typically come home strip a trip of 3 weeks and have 100-120 rolls divest yourself of 120 film to develop, say about 1350 exposures. I customarily only get 30 or so which I like enough dump I eventually print up. I’m always practicing myself!
Doing landscape photography is pensive day job, fortunately. I haven’t really done any commercial bradawl in a long time, and the print sales have set aside me going. I do like to mountain bike, so I ride almost every day in the hills above my sort out, through redwood and oak trees, which is fitting as I really enjoy the forest.
I’m looking forward to establishment some larger format prints traditionally, upwards of 40×50 inches, institute multiple panel installation photographs. I think it will require a subtle break from the way I have been photographing preschooler thinking in terms of a larger scale. I am in actuality excited by these opportunities. I’m still a few months verve from completing the new darkroom but when it is realised, I can’t wait to try some new ideas.
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