2007 Life Changing B+W Story!
LIFE CHANGING B+W STORY!
©Mark Metternich Photography, LLC.
In 2007 I was getting rolling with my landscape photography career and I walked into Pro Photo Supply (Portland, Oregon) and they happened to have the 2007 #blackandwhite.magazine B&W Special Issue (Portfolio Contest Awards) and as I was waiting, I thumbed through the magazine and was TOTALLY BLOW AWAY by "The Excellence Awards" namely the super surreal seascapes of #david_burdeny! Very long exposure, super surreal, minimalism seascape B+W's. I had NEVER seen such a thing! I was hooked.
I began experimenting with this ultra long exposure work continuously up to this day, BUT because digital was not yet up to the task of being able to produce hyper clean, high quality, extremely long exposures for top quality B+W enlargement, I NEVER showed any of that work! 😳
Over more recent years, teaching "The Ultimate Mastering Fine Art Printmaking Workshop" with #robertbpark (of #nevadaartprinters) I have been forced to be on the absolute innovative bleeding edge of technology.
Also, I have had the incredible luxury of making a living doing the print processing for countless individuals, exhibitions and world class nature photographers and galleries.
Along with viewing the AWESOME black and white work of photographer (and client) #kevinholidayphoto I have recently gotten TOTALLY inspired to continue to build my body of minimalist, surreal B+W's , and finally start posting them!
Combine some recent MASSIVE breakthroughs in processing technology (*most notably the new Adobe 32-bit Raw Layer Workflow!) along with new advanced and proprietary techniques dealing with noise and detail the future has arrived to make the highest quality, world class huge, fine art Black and White enlargements!
With the skillsets #RobertBPark and myself have innovated and teach at our workshop, the SKY is now the limit!
SO… I want to give a huge thanks to David Burdeny #david_burdeny and Kevin Holiday #kevinholidayphoto and being able to work with Robert Park #RobertBPark #nevadaartprinters Huge thank you!!!
So, here is my very FIRST release of the new body of work!
These will only be sold at the absolute highest quality, and very limited editions.
