ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER BRUCE SOBEL

Bruce Scott Sobel has been surrounded by photography his entire life. Bruce learned his craft from his father Norman, who was in the camera business for over fifty years. Bruce was fascinated with motion picture cameras at a very young age. He began to take movies at age eight. At ten years of age, he learned black & white dark room technique from his father.

For more than thirty years, he has developed and worked on his unique style which some say is "surreal" in nature. He has perfected his technique to a true art form.

Many of his photographs are time exposures done on a tripod lasting seconds to minutes. He creates images that show the actual motion of objects over time. He is able to capture what the eye cannot see. It relates back to his love for motion pictures as a child. Now he creates moving art in a single image.

His photos are done in medium and large format color transparencies and black and white negatives. All prints are archival, matted and signed. Different sizes and prices on request.
 

How photographs are made?

I work both in medium and large format. For my medium format work, I use a Rollei 6008i, which creates an image that is 6 cm x 6 cm. For large format photography, I use an Arca Swiss camera. This camera uses film that is 4 x 5 inches. This camera is very similar to what Ansel Adams photographed many of his famous images.

For my color photography, I use Fujichrome Provia, which is a color transparency type of film. For my black and white images, I use T-Max, by Kodak.

When I photograph, I always use a tripod and take meter readings with a hand held meter.

My film is processed by a professional lab.

I then scan my film with the highest quality scanners that are on the market today. My files range anywhere from 350 MB to approximately 1.5 GB in size. Individual scans can take up to 45 minutes to create.

After my scans have been perfected, I then use Adobe Photoshop to enhance the quality of my work. After I am satisfied with the image, I will save it as a master file and then I will prepare the file to be printed. I use fine art paper to make my final prints that I sell. In all, I may have worked on an image for more than 40 hours.