One evening, four exposures, and an unbroken horizon

The analog photography process is cumbersome and slow compared to the modern digital workflow. Not so much if you only compare the process of taking pictures with, for example, an analog 35 mm SLR and a modern digital SLR. You can expose many negatives if you have plenty of 35 mm film. No, the work before and after the photography differs the most when it comes to analog photography. Loading the film, processing the film, making prints in a darkroom, or perhaps digitizing the negatives with a scanner or other analog-to-digital solutions. All of that takes a lot of time.

A couple of days ago, I returned to a long-term project I'm working on. The project's name has changed several times during the period I've been working on it, so I won't write anything about that today. Anyway, the result, as mentioned above, was four exposures during that evening. One reason for the seemingly meager result was that I chose to photograph with a 4x5 inch large format camera. With a large format camera, everything is cumbersome and, above all, slow. You have to load one film sheet at a time into the film holders, which take two sheets per holder. Then, with a dark cloth over the back of the camera and your head, you determine your composition and camera settings.

The excitement and anticipation before seeing the result is one of the reasons why I also work with analog photography. And as it seems, the four exposures turned out fine.

One of the four negatives from that evening's photography towards the sky.