Brandon Patoc - Worldwide Photographer » Fine Art http://brandonpatoc.com/blog Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:17:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Image of the day http://brandonpatoc.com/blog/2010/02/image-of-the-day-6/ http://brandonpatoc.com/blog/2010/02/image-of-the-day-6/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:00:22 +0000 brandon http://brandonpatoc.com/blog/?p=972

I love shooting film and spending time in the darkroom. This shot was taken with my Hasselblad 501 C/M.

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Here’s an image I took a couple years ago on a trip to Kazakhstan. I had just boarded a train and happened to notice all these people waving and saying their “goodbyes” to their friends, family and loved ones. I love the rain, the hands on the window and the person inside the far train observing all of the action below on the loading deck (he’s difficult to see in this reduction).

Had I captured this image digitally I probably would have shared it soon after I took it, but there is something special about a traditional silver-gelatin print and printing in the darkroom – a nice change to sitting in front of a computer.

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Hasselblad X-Pan
Kodak 400 Tri-X
“Leaving Pavlodar” 2008

]]> http://brandonpatoc.com/blog/2009/12/personal-work/feed/ 1 From the archive… http://brandonpatoc.com/blog/2009/06/from-the-archive/ http://brandonpatoc.com/blog/2009/06/from-the-archive/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:20:45 +0000 brandon http://brandonpatoc.com/blog/?p=622 I took this photograph almost 7 years ago when I was shooting entirely with film. Photography has changed so much since then, but I still love getting in darkroom and shooting with my Hasselblad. Film is amazing. The original print is about 36″ wide. I was also playing violin a lot more then, which I miss more than shooting film. 

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Print type: Giclée triptych
Medium: Kodak Portra NC 400

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