Outdoor Photographer - UK (2019-11)

THE CLEAREST

PATH TO

BLACK

• WHITE

For Marc Koegel, the experience

is more important than the photograph

By William Sawalich / Photography By Marc Koegel

A

t the very moment landscape

photographer Marc Koegel steps outside

to begin the search for his next photograph,

he has already won. For him, success lies not

in the trophy of the finished image but rather

the process of being out in the world, camera

in hand. It’s about the journey as much as

the destination.

Yukon, Canada. “I think it’s important to understand that it [using a medium
format camera and back] really isn’t that inconvenient. It’s inconvenient if I use
my Cambo because it’s manual focus. But even that isn’t inconvenient because
when I had my old back before, I didn’t have live view, so I had to focus with a laser
distance measure, and then I’d focus, and then I’d take pictures and look at the
back of the camera and then change my composition based on that. And then I’d
check if I was actually sharp. It was way, way, way inconvenient. Now it’s actually
quite shockingly convenient. The only thing is that it’s heavier. There’s no way
around that.”
³ Phase One IQ3 100 Achromatic with Cambo WRS camera, 23mm Rodenstock
HR Lens. Exposure: 26 secs., ƒ/11, ISO 200.

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