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Demystify the amazing large format camera in this class which will get you using this incredible machine and making your first negative.
October 24, 2026
10:00am - 3:00pm
A Photographers Place 5100 Lacy Ave. Suite 100 Raleigh, NC 27609
Building familiarity with the functions and use of a large format camera will improve your overall understanding of optics and photography. This 200 year old technology still delivers the highest continuous line resolution of any camera in history. The large beautiful analog negative you can hold, see and print is the result of this process. We will use cameras and make our first large format pictures and develop them in this seminar.
Bring your camera or for an additional fee you may rent one of a limited number of 4×5 cameras.
In this class we will discuss:
Camera functions
Lens Functions
Loading Film
Metering Light
Film Development
Contact Printing
Instructor: Holden Richards
Holden Richards is a traditional large format film photographer and native North Carolinian currently residing in Hillsborough. Inspired by primarily by walking the creeks and rivers of Orange, and Durham Counties, these locations and subjects predominate his photographic work. He has studied view camera (with Jim Stone) and historic process printing (Jill Enfield) at Penland School of Crafts.
He is a current Getty Images Contributor who has had his work featured print, including Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, The Hand Magazine, and The Oxford American as well as appearing in corporate advertising campaigns through Getty. His recent monograph Riverwalk is included in the archives of the University of North Carolina, Duke University and the North Carolina Museum of Art. His darkroom work has been included in The Cassilhaus Collection and the public collections of the cities of Raleigh and Durham, NC among others.
Demystify the amazing large format camera in this class which will get you using this incredible machine and making your first negative.
October 24, 2026
10:00am - 3:00pm
A Photographers Place 5100 Lacy Ave. Suite 100 Raleigh, NC 27609
Building familiarity with the functions and use of a large format camera will improve your overall understanding of optics and photography. This 200 year old technology still delivers the highest continuous line resolution of any camera in history. The large beautiful analog negative you can hold, see and print is the result of this process. We will use cameras and make our first large format pictures and develop them in this seminar.
Bring your camera or for an additional fee you may rent one of a limited number of 4×5 cameras.
In this class we will discuss:
Camera functions
Lens Functions
Loading Film
Metering Light
Film Development
Contact Printing
Instructor: Holden Richards
Holden Richards is a traditional large format film photographer and native North Carolinian currently residing in Hillsborough. Inspired by primarily by walking the creeks and rivers of Orange, and Durham Counties, these locations and subjects predominate his photographic work. He has studied view camera (with Jim Stone) and historic process printing (Jill Enfield) at Penland School of Crafts.
He is a current Getty Images Contributor who has had his work featured print, including Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, The Hand Magazine, and The Oxford American as well as appearing in corporate advertising campaigns through Getty. His recent monograph Riverwalk is included in the archives of the University of North Carolina, Duke University and the North Carolina Museum of Art. His darkroom work has been included in The Cassilhaus Collection and the public collections of the cities of Raleigh and Durham, NC among others.