[LargeFormat] Introducing........

[Matt Kennedy]

Greetings all,

I'm Matt Kennedy, from Arkansas. I've been a darkroom chemistry
nut for just nearly two years, and shooting large format almost
exclusively for the last year. I'm a biology major, graduating
college in about ten days. I spent my student loans on my Shen
Hao 4x5, a rodenstock sironar n 210mm, a Fuji 90 sw, Minolta
spotmeter F, and a Slik pro tripod that outweighs all the
aforementioned gear. The tripod makes all the other gear seem
light on long hikes in the mountains.
    My folks allowed me to build my darkroom into a funky old
mobile home that sits on their retirement property. There, I
battle mice, temperature variations, and dissolved minerals
(iron, about two horseshoes/gallon.) I use an omega D2 with
condensors I got from a little old lady who bought it used in
the 50's and only took it to bingo. She threw in her retired B &
J press with its functional graphlex 135mm and a dryer. (So
THAT's how you dry fiber flat...)
     I shoot Fortepan200 and soup in PMK in tubes. Now and then,
I'll test a different dev, but I always come back to the PMK.  I
have a calumet 6x7 back for shooting color and IR, but haven't
had opportunity to get those films out of the freezer. 
     I bought 10 boxes of fortepan400 for an extra $1 per box,
and durned if it isn't the exact same film. Same color, smell,
notch code, and all. The info sheet in the 400 box makes clear
that the film was tested under tungsten lights, and will be
slower in daylight... No such stipulation in the 200 box. Tests
will tell. But I'm drifting....

     Currently, I shoot quite a bit of portraiture, nudes, and
the like. I exhausted myself on landscape as a youngster
shooting small format, but I do want to try to approach it again
now that I'm free of educational committments... I've been doing
some alt stuff, mostly Vandyke browns, making negs with Liams
reversal process on APHS. I hope to try gum bichromate soon.

Cheers to the future,

-Matt



	
		
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