Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're only as good sat your latest Double elephant folio. Which is a bound 30x40 inch book. Same size as " Audubon?s Birds of America, the greatest picture book ever published and the best-known double-elephant folio." I thought he was going through a stack of prints with the white Mickey Mouse gloves then I noticed it was bound in a book which needs a special stand like the Helmut Newton book which I think was a bit bigger. Amazing how annoying an excellent artist can be. "$2.5 million for the world?s second set of Botanica Magnifica " http://judithdenhollander.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/double-elephant-folio-of- 250-floral-images-jonathan-singer/ $2.5 million is more than $500,000 don't know about the discrepancy. Coincidently my approach exactly to shooting flowers. Black drop out backdrop. And the way to do it would be medium format digital the Fujiblad ideal for the job. The low light approach very interesting the first new lighting approach I've heard of in years for photography. Copy the Dutch masters. I think digital opened that up more. http://www.hasselblad.com/news/hasselblad-photographer-jonathan-singer-photo graphs-flowers-with-a-heavenly-touch.aspx And in effect "print making" but down by a book company. Mark William Rabiner