Amateur Photographer – 30 August 2019

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LARGE-FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY

Dustin Veitch Canada

http://www.dustinveitch.com; Instagramfaultyflipflap

‘Film photographyhasbeenmy

release forexperimentationand

learningoverthepastfouryears.

The wayimagesarerenderedon

fi lm is whatkeepsmeshooting,

and I lovetheentireprocess

from beginningtoend,butit

took many boxes of fogged sheets,missedfocus,

development mishaps and theliketogettowhere

I am today with large-formatphotography.

‘Shortly after the Kickstartercampaignforthe

fi rst-generation Intrepid model,I boughtmyfirst

large-format camera. It’s a lightweight,extremely

portable system and it acceleratedmylearningas

I can take it everywhere. ThemoreI shot,themore

I learned and continued to developmyskills;it all

comes as second nature now.’

Motel, Saskatchewan

Intrepid 5x4in Mk1, Nikkor 180mm

f/5.6, 1/8sec at f/32, Fuji Provia 100F

© DUSTIN VEITCH

James making 4x5 bellows by hand, with rolls of
bellows fabric in various colours on the wall

The bellows are constructed from Nylon with a

special super-thin lightproof coating inside

The 4x5 bellows being attached. Pretty much

everything is made in the Brighton workshop