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Photography News | Issue 68 | photographynews.co.uk
Find out what happened when avid landscape photographer David Pratt swapped his Nikon D850 for the Fujifilm GFX 50R Make the switch
My earliest memory of photography is having a small Hanimex 110 film camera as a child, but I didn’t use it a lot because getting film developed wasn’t cheap and pocket money was scarce! It wasn’t until October 2007 that I realised how much pleasure I took from taking and sharing photographs, but I soon made up for lost time. By the end of that year I had dived in with both feet, buying a Nikon D300 DSLR, Nikkor 18-200mm, Nikkor ‘nifty fifty’ 50mm and a Sigma 10-20mm.
My lens collection continued to grow and although I loved themall, it was the Sigma 10- 20mmwide-angle lens that really openedup a newworld tome. I had never seen such a wide field of view. I’d seen images inmagazines and online, but hadn’t realised what really went into making them. Over time I’ve refined my shooting technique, vision and processing style, as well as focused more on the kind of photography I love most: landscapes. My current gear is
based around a Nikon D850 with a variety of lenses, covering everything from fisheye to 500mm telephoto. I still love working at the wider end of the focal length range, though. For a while now I’ve been curious about what larger-than-35mm-format photography has to offer. A lot of the great landscape photographers over the years have used large format film cameras, but having never really used and developed film, I wasn’t sure if that was something I wanted to get into.
David Pratt Landscape photographer, based in north- east England
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