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Tom Lubens

Tom Lubens is a professional photographer using Graflex cameras. In 1996, Tom produced forty-one photographs with his 4x5 Graphic for a BBQ industry sales catalog. Here is Tom's story and a few photographs. Tom produced forty-one photographs with his 4x5 Crown Graphic for a BBQ replacement parts industry sales catalog. Here is Tom's story.

I use my 4 x 5 Graflex to take advertising photographs for the company I work for. I used it to take photographs for a full color brouchure for BBQ replacement parts and the result was an immediate success. Within one week of it hitting buyers desks nationwide we had an order from a twenty store chain. The buyer saw what he liked and bought it. I believe the photographs -- clear, sharp and very detailed -- made the brochure.

Technical data:
The 41 photographs were taken with the 4x5 Graphic camera. All lighting was 3200K photofloods (hot lights). Most were taken in my office space that measured approximately 12' x 12'. A couple of others were taken in an old dusty barn. Some were scanned into a computer and the background was electronically removed. Most of the exposure s ranged from 1/4 second to 2 seconds. I used a tripod (very old and heavy) that has since died and gone to where broken tripods go. I used Kodak slide film, 64T Ektachrome, shot as ASA 64. Most photographs were shot at f/16-f/22 aperture.

Tom Lubens
Perkasie, PA

Scans are from halftoned catalog images, and do not reflect original image quality.

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