Shooting With The Masters - Charles Cramer Part 6

Finessing The Print

It’s been a while and today we continue our series with Charlie Cramer.  We  delve into the finer points of three different images and how Charlie approaches the printing of these. The first print is called Rock Face, the second is Ice Plant and third is Sea Weed.
It was fun finding these locations and the images that we printed.  The first image Rock Face was found at an area of rich rock called Tafoni.  This area has some amazing formations in sandstone.  While I was photographing one section with many different textures, Charlie found his image on the face of a rock.  This is a great segment as it shows that many times the picture isn’t in the big landscape but in the details of a smaller area. 

The same holds true for the second segment Ice Plant.  In this shot, Charlie found an image right at his feet.  We were searching for the dead-cat cover for one of our microphones and as we searched Charlie stopped and decided to shoot the image that we discuss.  Once a...