Farber and EOS

[msvadi]

Today I came across a book of Robert Farber images - Natural Beauty: Farber Nudes. The pictures were really beautiful (I like his work a lot), but I also found the technical notes to be very interesting.

First, I was surprised that he mostly uses Canon EOS system for his art photography ( I have his another book, which contains pictures taken only with Nikon (manual?) ). Next, he writes that he prefers 35mm format and uses a medium format camera (Contax 645) mostly for commercial assignments

Second, his choice of lenses is quite interesting: 28-135 IS, 75-300 IS and 70-200 f/2.8. He writes that he finds those lenses to be of equal quality.

Next, some of the pictures in the book were taken with D30, and he thinks it's excellent.

Finally, it looks like he abandoned dark room and switched to Photoshop. All nondigital images in the book were scanned and postprocessed in Photoshop.

[ducdubbq]

i really like the dreamy qualities of farber's work bu tI love the fact he tells you the technical stuff. so it feels like I COULD do the same work. i got the same materials and equipment. i just need the model and that INSPIRATION that makes all the difference.

[dkord]

Yeah, he has a website, that's now called Photoworkshop. It's was strongly tied to the Canon Digital Learning Center via links. Now, there's a lot more sponsership and other photographers involved. When it was first designed it was called The Robert Farber Photography Workshop. It's hard to tell its connected to him unless you go deeper into the site. It's a nice place with lots of info on lighting techniques. Some of the stuff is free, some are subscription based.


http://www.photoworkshop.com/index.html

http://www.photoworkshop.com/registered/pages/gallery01.html

[Mike H]

Robert Farber has been around for quite some time. I like his work (what I saw of it in past years, anyway).

You might find it interesting to know that years ago he shot Minolta, apparently a sponsor for him at that time. He did a lot of work with their manual focus X-700.

Thanks for pointing him out; I'm curious as to what his work looks like now, and how it has changed from what I remember.

Mike H