That's right peeps. I think it's time to retool http://www.chrismorring.com again. Please take a look and give me some feedback. Yes, I will be including more examples of platinum prints(I'm going to be a scanning fool after review). Yes, I will be updating/removing galleries. I'm ( Read more... )

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. - Irving Penn - September/October 2001, American Photo , Page: 43 ( Read more... )

I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after ( Read more... )

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. - Henri Cartier-Bresson ( Read more... )

Identify your objectives. Be clear in your mind what you want to say about the subject. Is it beautiful? Is it menacing? Don't shoot unless you know what the message of your picture is going to be. - Bob Carlos Clarke ( Read more... )

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. - Richard Avedon ( Read more... )

You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams ( Read more... )

The state of mind of a photographer while creating is a blank...For those who would equate "blank" with a kind of static emptiness, I must explain that this is a special kind of blank. It is a very active state of mind really, a very receptive state of mind, ready at an instant to grasp an image, yet with no image pre-formed in it at any time. We ( Read more... )

The state of mind of a photographer while creating is a blank...For those who would equate "blank" with a kind of static emptiness, I must explain that this is a special kind of blank. It is a very active state of mind really, a very receptive state of mind, ready at an instant to grasp an image, yet with no image pre-formed in it at any time. We ( Read more... )

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stuff shot with the hasselblads and stitched in photoshop. The verticals happened in camera that way.

- CWM