4x5 Archives - James Pratt

4x5x365 – Day 89

February 4, 2016 by James Pratt

Lots of drag racing pictures coming up from Thunder Valley Raceway. Unfortunately with a huge 4×5 view camera it is not easy to move around and capture different angles. I often just put it on a tripod and try to capture the decisive moment. This is one of my favorites from the alcohol rail dragsters […]

4x5x365 – Day 9

May 13, 2015 by James Pratt

OK, last cabin from my stop at Tahlonteeskee near Gore, Oklahoma. This was my second scan using the KAMI wet mounting fluid and I didn’t do a good job of getting the image and mylar stuck down so the image has ghosting in the upper left and corner and a bit center right side. I […]

4x5x365 – Day 8

May 12, 2015 by James Pratt

I got my fluid mounting liquid for my Epson Perfection V750 Pro scanner in! I am doing the happy dance! I have owned this excellent scanner for about 4 years now and always scanned my film using the included film holders. The scanner comes with a wet mounting tray but I never purchased the supplied […]

4x5x365 – Day 2

May 2, 2015 by James Pratt

My second day of shooting 4×5 film every single day turned out MUCH better than my first day. I am not really sure why yet, because I had not developed the film from the first day yet so I didn’t know about the over-exposure problem. For day 2 we went to my son’s house for […]

4x5x365 – Day 1

May 1, 2015 by James Pratt

Today I started a new project titled 4x5x365. My plan is to shoot at least one sheet of 4×5 film every day for the next year, and see how it turns out. My goal is to get better at shooting 4×5 film and share my journey along this difficult path with others.

OK Living Cover May 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic I toted my white background and lighting gear to Central Electric Cooperative in Stillwater for a cover shoot for Oklahoma Living Magazine. These usually require a fair amount of work, since I have to take an 11′ roll of white paper with me, plus all the gear to hold the paper […]

Oklahoma Living April 2020 Cover and Feature Story

I always love assignments from Oklahoma Living Magazine. Most are centered around people, and I love photographing people. In this case, I was assigned to photograph a story about Gene Rowe, a farmer in southwest Oklahoma. The story was written by Adam Calaway, one of my favorite writers, so I knew it was going to […]

Oklahoma Living Magazine September 2019 Cover

I had fun photographing this cover story for Oklahoma Living Magazine, one of my favorite clients. I took this picture at the beautiful Chickasaw Nation Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma on a really hot summer day. I had to be careful to keep my models from sweating. It was toasty hot, about 98 degrees outside. […]

Goodnight Farms in Chattanooga Oklahoma

In 2017 I photographed a story about Cody Goodnight, co-owner of Goodnight Farms southwest Oklahoma. The assignment was for Top Producer Magazine, a regular client I work for in the agriculture industry. I photographed Cody and his father, fiancé and employees on their farm in early spring as they were getting ready for the wheat […]

Volunteer Firefighters for Oklahoma Living

I always love photographing real people doing real things. What could be more fun than photographing volunteer firemen? I got that opportunity recently for Oklahoma Living Magazine. My assignment was to photograph firemen from the Coyle and Woodcrest fire departments in Oklahoma. I had the idea to do a split-shot photo that showed both the […]

Rising from the Ashes – for Kansas Agriculture Magazine

During the summer 2017 I took a trip to western Kansas for a long-time client and photographed a couple of stories in the area. For one story I stopped in Clark County and photographed the Ashland Veterinarian Clinic for a story about how the clinic helped local farmers during and after a huge spring prairie […]

Oklahoma Living January 2018 Cover

I traveled to Tulsa to photograph KOTV’s Leanne Taylor for Oklahoma Living’s “Best of Oklahoma” story for the January 2018 edition of the magazine. It was early December and I had to be there at 7 am to scout for a location. We ended up photographing Leanne after her 9 am television show inside the […]

Shawnee Mills for Oklahoma Living Magazine

Had a fun time photographing this story about Shawnee Mills in where else? Shawnee, Oklahoma. I love shooting photos of industrial-type settings and people at work. I worked with one of my favorite writers Hayley Leatherwood on this project. Because of the dust from the flour mill, I had to mount two cameras with lenses […]

Cause for Conservation story for Kansas Agriculture Magazine

I traveled to Garden City, Kansas over the summer to photograph a story about water conservation efforts in the Ogallala Aquifer that covers western Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. This huge aquifer is slowly being used up by the massive irrigation efforts by farmers in these western states, trying to feed the growing populations of the […]

Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine

I love doing portrait photography and had the opportunity to photograph Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine cover story. Virginia lives in Luther, not far from my home in Edmond, and was a long-time employee – 41 years – at Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives – parent to Oklahoma Living Magazine. Her father Carl Booher […]