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About the Website & the Photographer
Q:
So, Bob, what the *&%# are you up to, with this new website?
You already have one site (bobbennettphoto.net) that has everything
of yours except
the kitchen sink.. so why bother with another?
Are you some kind of masochist, who likes to do the endlessly repetitive
task of site-building...?
A:
Hell, no!...It's a matter of 'focus'... and also, of 'presentation'.
I shoot a whole lot of landscapes for my montage work,
but only a few end up getting used in the montage prints...
so I have a big box of straight/landscape prints, that never see
the light of day.......
Why not show all the great views I have been lucky enough to take
in, just for their own sake?
..You gotta problem with that?
Q:...well,
no...not really...uh...
A:
Just so you don't ask me too many more stupid questions,
before I can leave, and hit the beach?... here's the low-down:
I
just go to places that I like...
I attempt to plan for arriving at a place/time with interesting conditions...
sometimes I figure it right..& sometimes wrong.
It's a roll of the dice.
But if you don't make the effort?
you *definitely* won't get the shot - it's that simple.
All the images here are 'classic/ traditional/silver-gelatin black&white'.
Nothing except the scans are digital.
I
do a whole lot of digital work, but to tell ya the truth?
It all drives me totally *#&%-ing crazy......
California
is one of the most varied & wacko places on the planet...It's been a gas to take in even a few parts of it in the last 15 years.
I
moved here, arriving on New Year's day, 1992.
I hit the ground running, & making pictures... haven't stopped
since.
My techniques are still pretty simple -
no matter how much digital **** there is?...
the first rule of all 'landscape/documentary' photography is still
the same - "you gotta be there, to get the shot"
There really aren't any substitutes.
Q:
So what about your cameras & equipment?
A:
Hey!...I totally keep it simple!
..and also 'light-weight", since i have to carry it all...
and at 55?.. I just don't have energy to schlep any more than
I have to.
I
never carry a tripod, or a light meter - after 10+ years doing architectural
photography on a 4x5, the tripod thing is history - "been there,
done that" - I'd rather have a lighter load, so I can drag my
aching hips, ankles, and knees as far as possible. I just don't need
a light/exposure meter anymore - after 35 years of shooting outdoors?...
I just do NOT need it...
I've had at least one Pentax 6x7, since the early '80's...
I
now have one *really old* body, that is broken & no longer serviceable...
I'm hanging onto it for parts.....
I also have a more recent body that works fine...
and I also have one of the most recent/redesigned version...
that is *sweet*!
I
almost always use them w/ the 55mm lense......
I have a few other lenses,... but the 55 is soooo sharp?...
if i were 'left on a desert isle',
that's the only ****ing lense i would want to have...
I
also have an old Yashica TLR.... with a really standard 80mm lense...
I
guess the best thing about this lense/camera... is that it forces
you to "keep
it simple" - that's what it's all about...
...For
decades I have been an 'Agfa' kinda guy - the 100 ASA film, in Rodinal
1:50...but now that they are belly up, I guess I can live with Ilford
FP4. Not sure what i will soup it in, quite yet - I still have some
Agfa 100 speed 120 rolls, and some Rodinal left...
I
always have a yellow filter on the lense of the Pentax, or a piece
of a yellow filter taped inside the Yashica...
Anything else....?
Q:
If there was, I totally forgot it...
A:
Well,
you can e-mail me, if and when you remember whatever it was.. you
forgot to ask.......
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