Negative Supply Spotlight: Tim Anderson
We are very excited to feature Tim Anderson on our latest spotlight!
Hi there! Introduce yourself to the Negative Supply community.
“Tim Anderson here, alias dv over dt, a reference to a rather nasty old 429 Police Interceptor powered Mach 1 I built up in an earlier life. My bill paying gig is electrical engineering. Once, when asked if I was a professional photographer: “I make my living as an engineer, but I do photography to actually live.” “
Q: How did you first discover your passion for photography?
“The attraction started in my early 20s. I had a toy camera as a kid, but things took off when I got my shiny new Canon T70. I was early on fascinated with night photography, wondering just what would happen if I fully exposed film after the sun went down. Then, too I’ve always had an attraction for the cast off, the faded icons of another era, and photography was one way to capture and preserve these things before they faded away altogether.”
Q: What do you enjoy most about shooting film?
“The tactile process. Loading the film. The mechanical feel of an OM1 shutter. I like having a hand in the entire process, from capturing the photo all the way through development, scanning, and printing. The process ticks all my boxes: the artistic aspects of stalking and capturing THE image, chemical wizardry turning an ugly brown piece of film into a stunning Velvia transparency, and the engineering chain allowing my Canon Pro2000 to spit out a stunning print, which gives the gift of reliving what I felt in that moment when everything came together and the shutter tripped. “
Q: What are some of your favorite film stock?
“If I only had one to shoot for eternity? Velvia 50. It does things with desert twilight no other film can. Rollei CR200 and its many namesakes: it pulls off two unique looks that I love depending on subject matter and whether processed E6 or C41. I also enjoy good old color negative film for the way it allows me to shoot in blasting desert sunlight, as well as the way it tames the dynamic range in a night shot of vintage neon. Favorites here would be Ektar 100, Portra 800 even at high noon, and the drugstore films like Kodak Gold and Fuji C200, because they captured so many moments for so many people: theirs is the look of nostalgia. And finally, for black and white: XX-5222 for that classic high contrast look, and P3200 for letting me treat my Rollei 35 like digital, doing hand held night shots.”
Q: What inspires me most when it comes to your photography?
“The siren song of the open road is a cliché. But for good reason. Nothing makes me happier than hitting that Texas/New Mexico border, headed west and loaded up with camera gear. I could spend the rest of my life photographing the American Southwest and not even scratch the surface of what it offers.”
Q: How has our Negative Supply tools helped your workflow?
“How about: making the entire thing possible? The one thing we can’t make more of is time. And, especially for hybrid shooters like myself who print digitally, a quality electronic capture of film is vital. I primarily shoot medium format film, and scanning options are either slow, expensive or unreliable. And sometimes all three. I can digitize a roll of 120 at 61 mp in two minutes, and that’s with me hitting the film with a rocket blower between each frame. If I had to rely on other methods I’d be shooting a lot less film.”
Q: What camera are you using to scanning?
“Sony A7Riv and Sony G series 90mm macro. Scan once, at the best quality possible, that way you don’t have to go back and do it over later.”
We’d like to thank Tim for sharing his work with us! You can check out more of his work on Instagram. Check out the tools Tim used below! And if you’d like be featured on our blog send us a email at contact@negativesupply.co
