Monochrome Photography
The monochrome photographs here are taken on a range of cameras, from a Yashica Mat 124G twin lens reflex to a Canon 5D modified for infrared through the fitting of an infrared filter over the camera sensor. The square format images were taken on the Yashica using Maco infrared film, developed chemically. Although originally printed chemically using an enlarger, these images are scanned from negatives or prints and developed digitally in Photoshop or Affinity Photo. For years I developed black and white film on a reel in a tank, printing my monochrome photographs using a Durst enlarger and trays of chemical solutions, often toning them chemically post-print. Nowadays I confine myself to the less messy processes afforded by digital development, though I try to retain a timeless quality monochrome photography is uniquely capable of evoking.
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Colour Photography
The colour photographs here are, as with the monochrome above, taken on a range of cameras. My first camera, jointly owned with my brother, was a 35mm Ricoh rangefinder similar to the one in the photo here, but with a chrome top plate. The Ricoh shown here is a camera I bought in more recent years, although it has served more as a nostalgic reminder of a bygone photographic age than for taking a significant number of photos. I've used a range of colour films down through the years, starting with colour negative film but eventually settling on slide film, usually either Fujichrome Velvia or Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Colour 100 EBX. The purchase of a Minolta Dimáge Scan Dual II film scanner enabled me to digitise my photos and print them myself. This was a transitional time in moving from analogue to digital that led to a Minolta Dimage 7 digital camera and on eventually to Canon 5D and 5D Mark II SLRs.
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Digital/3D
The digital images displayed here are created using various software packages including Cinema 4D, Vue, GeoControl, ZBrush, Rhino and Poser. Models such as the Chevrolet or mantelpiece clock were created in Cinema 4D, with photographic or procedural colour or texture mapping. The windmill and the Vietnamese junk were modeled in Rhino with some work on the junk's hull done in ZBrush. Landscape work is usually done in Vue, with GeoControl sometimes used for height or plant distribution maps. Vue comes with numerous trees and plants of an earthly or sometimes alien nature, as can be seen in the Lonely Planet image. Poser provides human, animal and bird models that can be posed and inserted into scenes, digital actors of a sort. Other content for Vue and Poser, not included in the original packages, is provided by third parties and may be featured in some of these images.
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