Minimalism in Comacchio: an analog, 4x5" Portfolio

[Vieri Bottazzini]

Hello everyone,

I am currently in Comacchio (Italy) in the river Po's delta running a Workshop, and thought this would be the perfect time to release a Portfolio of analog, 4x5" photographs I created here last December. You can find the full Portfolio on my Blog, here: COMACCHIO & PO DELTA: AN ANALOG PORTFOLIO

Here some images out of the Portfolio for you to enjoy:

All photographs taken with my Arca-Swiss F-line custom camera, Ilford FP4+ rated 100 ISO and developed in Pyrocat-HD. Best regards,

Vieri

 

[baachitraka]

That house in fog and the last photo, row of trees are my favourite.

 

[bernard_L]

COMACCHIO & PO DELTA: A 4×5″ PORTFOLIO | Vieri Bottazzini Fine Art Photography

In December 2024, my wife and I dedicated a few days to photographing the moody lagoons of Comacchio and the river Po's delta with my 4x5" camera...

www.vieribottazzini.com

I like these a lot.

Less so the other portfolios: too much of extreme wide angle, tone mapping, saturation. The opposite of the Comacchio portflio.

 

[Vieri Bottazzini]

That house in fog and the last photo, row of trees are my favourite.

Thank you very much, happy you enjoyed them!

COMACCHIO & PO DELTA: A 4×5″ PORTFOLIO | Vieri Bottazzini Fine Art Photography

In December 2024, my wife and I dedicated a few days to photographing the moody lagoons of Comacchio and the river Po's delta with my 4x5" camera...

www.vieribottazzini.com

I like these a lot.

Less so the other portfolios: too much of extreme wide angle, tone mapping, saturation. The opposite of the Comacchio portflio.

Thank you Bernard, happy you liked them! About the rest of my work, we can't please everybody, so no worries.

I do love wides and ultra-wides for the expressive and interpretative possibilities they open for me, and I am still using them with 4x5" (and used them in the Comacchio Portfolio that you liked), but I never do (and never did) tone mapping though, for what is worth.

More in general, the aesthetics of film are very different from digital, and the results are as well - the medium, whether we like to admit it or not, pushes us towards working in a certain way. Digital vs film is dramatically different, but I find that even choosing a digital camera against than another has that effect.

Best regards,

Vieri