{"id":19,"date":"2008-04-08T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T21:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-04-16T04:44:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T11:44:13","slug":"ebony-45s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/ebony-45s\/","title":{"rendered":"EBONY 45S"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past four years I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve worked almost exclusively with a Mamiya 7 camera, and is what I used for Motherland<\/em><\/span>. \u00c2\u00a0I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d originally planned to use a 5×4 field camera for the trip but because of logistical reasons I decided on the Mamiya.\u00c2\u00a0(Traveling for a year across Russia meant that I needed a light, versatile camera that could cope with very cold temperatures).\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We English<\/em> will all be shot on a 5×4 camera. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to be using the beautiful Ebony 45S<\/a> (see photograph below), a lovingly crafted camera made from ebony wood and titanium. It is <\/span>lightweight, compact and easy to use. However, w<\/span>hat I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m most enamoured by is its simplicity and purity. It is the antithesis of our modern digital age and is a far more contemplative process to image making, too rarely seen in our twenty-four-hour news media world. Importantly for me, I also take better photographs with it! <\/span><\/p>\n

There is something much more personal about my relationship with the camera, partly due to the amount of time and effort it takes to compose an image, where I find myself being more considered in framing every scene. This relationship also extends to my subjects who I find relate to me as a photographer in a more intimate way and, on the whole, tend to take the image making process more seriously than if I was snapping away with a smaller, hand held camera.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a bizarre way, I also tend to get more spontaneous photographs, especially in situations where there a lots of people in the frame, mainly because by the time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve set-up and am ready to take the photograph, people have got bored looking at the camera and continue with what they were doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to be photographing exclusively with a Schneider 150mm lens using Fuji Pro160 S film.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For the past four years I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve worked almost exclusively with a Mamiya 7 camera, and is what I used for Motherland. \u00c2\u00a0I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d originally planned to use a 5×4 field camera for the trip but because of logistical reasons I decided on the Mamiya.\u00c2\u00a0(Traveling for a year across Russia meant that I needed a light, versatile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}