Nick Brandt
Here’s a nice change of pace for this blog… wildlife photography! These are not your run of the mill animal mug shots. These, in my opinion, are quite special as photographer Nick Brandt is able to connect with his animal subjects on a level I’ve never quite seen before in wildlife photography. I have a hard enough time getting small dogs to love me so I couldn’t imagine being that intimate with a lion. Nick uses a Pentax 6×7 medium format camera and, if I were to guess, uses a 300-400 mm lens for some of his images. In 6×7 format, that’s roughly the equivalent of 150-200mm. Check out his book On This Earth, A Shadow Falls in person. Then you’ll get a sense of the true quality put into the images. He’s able to achieve a depth of field that I can’t quite figure out on few of the pictures. Maybe he utilizes the old vaseline on a lens method?
Hopefully these images will make those who are locked down in winter-freeze mode feel a little warmer. Spring is right around the corner folks.
Check out Mr. Brandt’s work on his website: http://www.nickbrandt.com
7 Comments Leave A Comment
Thomas Boesgaard says:
February 11, 2014 at 3:05 amIt’s not Vaseline. He tilts the plane in his enlarger, when creating prints from his negatives.
So a cool tilt/shift effect done a cool way :-)
John Dykstra says:
February 11, 2014 at 6:04 amWhat Thomas said :P I guarantee it’s not vaseline. I often use Nick Brandt’s photograph of the elephant drinking from a river to show the strength of triangles in composition.
Navis says:
February 11, 2014 at 12:06 pmI was kidding about the vaseline. But I didn’t think of tilting the plane on the enlarger so that makes perfect sense.
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Jeff says:
February 13, 2014 at 5:35 amI’ve been following his work for a while. In an article with amateur photographer he notes he only carried 3 lenses a 55,105 and 200. This amazed me because he must have been very close to the animals at 100mm equivalent on 35mm distance even with cropping
Truls says:
February 13, 2014 at 6:44 amHe has said specifically that he doesn’t like to use teleobjectives because of the distance it creates from the animal to the viewer.
He scans and edits his negatives in photoshop and then prints them. He has said that he tilts his objectives in the camera without mounting them properly, don’t know if this is true. I would have guessed he does it in photoshop.
Some of the pictures are also done with infrared b/w film.
Power bank says:
March 17, 2014 at 8:29 pmHe has said specifically that he doesn’t like to use teleobjectives because of the distance it creates from the animal to the viewer.
He scans and edits his negatives in photoshop and then prints them. He has said that he tilts his objectives in the camera without mounting them properly, don’t know if this is true. I would have guessed he does it in photoshop.
Some of the pictures are also done with infrared b/w film.