One evening, four exposures and an unbroken horizon

The analog photography process is clumsy and slow compared to the modern digital workflow. Not so much if you just compare the actual process of taking pictures with, for example, an analog 35mm SLR and a modern digital SLR. You can expose a lot of negatives if you have plenty of 35mm film. No, the work before and after shooting is mostly different 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 analogue-to-digital solutions. All that takes a lot of time.

A few days ago, I returned to a long-running project I am working on. The name of the project has changed several times during the period I have been working on it, so I am not writing anything today. Anyway, the result, as mentioned above, was four exposures during that evening. One reason for the poor result was that I chose to shoot with a large format camera of 4x5 inches. With a large format camera everything is cumbersome and above all slow. You have to load one and a half sheets of film into the film holders that 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 shoot against the sky.