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Errorism is a contemporary art movement in photography (and few other art genres) that purposefully accepts and utilizes technical errors, let them be accidental or deliberately forced. The only restriction: the errors must add to the overall impact.

This is an attempt to shoot large format portrait with my VDS 810 field camera and Ilford HARMAN direct positive paper. This stock is rather tricky, you never know what is its sensitivity. It goes from ISO 1.5 to almost ISO 10, depending on several things.
We did this shot and got critically underexposed. Later I scanned the paper image, swapped the sides as direct positive paper switches them, and tried to push it to the limits to fill the darkness. The result was amazing giving this eerie look and sense of hidden beauty well beyond the visible…

Tech Talk:
Camera: VDS 810 large format field camera custom-built by VDS Camera Manufactory
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach APO Symmar-S 240 f/5.6 MC with Copal 3 shutter
stock: Ilford HARMAN direct positive paper 4×5" size
t=2 sec; f16 1/3
Developed in Tetenal
Scanned with Canon CanoScan LiDE 220
Cleaned-up, pushed and toned in Photoshop.

This is a faithful depiction of a living person, strictly protected by copyright law and privacy laws. Please don't claim, steel, nick, lend, lease, lift, edit, alter, draw, blog, reblog, share, broadcast, twist, cook or abuse it. If you really must use this for any purpose, write me (actually us—I'll forward the request) for fair terms and conditions.

Please respect the models.

Description
Errorism is a contemporary art movement in photography (and few other art genres) that purposefully accepts and utilizes technical errors, let them be accidental or deliberately forced. The only restriction: the errors must add to the overall impact.

This is an attempt to shoot large format portrait with my VDS 810 field camera and Ilford HARMAN direct positive paper. This stock is rather tricky, you never know what is its sensitivity. It goes from ISO 1.5 to almost ISO 10, depending on several things.
We did this shot and got critically underexposed. Later I scanned the paper image, swapped the sides as direct positive paper switches them, and tried to push it to the limits to fill the darkness. The result was amazing giving this eerie look and sense of hidden beauty well beyond the visible…

Tech Talk:
Camera: VDS 810 large format field camera custom-built by VDS Camera Manufactory
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach APO Symmar-S 240 f/5.6 MC with Copal 3 shutter
stock: Ilford HARMAN direct positive paper 4×5" size
t=2 sec; f16 1/3
Developed in Tetenal
Scanned with Canon CanoScan LiDE 220
Cleaned-up, pushed and toned in Photoshop.

This is a faithful depiction of a living person, strictly protected by copyright law and privacy laws. Please don't claim, steel, nick, lend, lease, lift, edit, alter, draw, blog, reblog, share, broadcast, twist, cook or abuse it. If you really must use this for any purpose, write me (actually us—I'll forward the request) for fair terms and conditions.

Please respect the models.