:: About Mark Gray

Mark Gray is an International award-winning fine art landscape photographer. A completely self taught photographer, he specialises in stunning panoramic photography of fine art landscapes from Australia and beyond.

Mark's open and limited edition photographs were captured with a medium format panoramic film camera which is far superior to any digital camera available and allows incredible detail to be captured. The end result is fine art photographs that can be printed extremely large, over 5 metres wide, while retaining outstanding quality and sharpness.

Where It All Began

One icy cold Victorian winter morning, Mark awoke early and looked out the window to witness a breathtaking sunrise over Marengo Beach while on holiday with his wife Suzy in Apollo Bay. After trying to capture the sunrise unsuccessfully with his recently acquired point and shoot digital camera, he decided he wanted to learn how to capture those moments effectively and set out to teach himself everything that was required. Soon afterwards Mark realised that landscape photography was his one true passion and dedicated all his spare time to pushing his own boundaries and learning everything required to capture those incredible moments.

Photographic Equipment

Mark currently shoots with a panoramic Linhof Technorama 617s III complete with 90mm & 72mm Schneider Super Angulon XL lenses. In the past he has also shot with a Fuji GX-617 with 90mm lens and a Fuji G617 with 105mm lens. He shoots mainly on Velvia Fujichrome film which is famous for its fine grain, extreme sharpness and fantastic colour saturation. Although shooting on medium format film is more time consuming and costly than digital - with only 4 or 8 photos per roll of film, it allows the capture of 6x17cm transparencies (positives instead of negatives) which results in much higher quality photographs that can be printed as big as a billboard without sacrificing quality.

Mark also shoots with a 21.1 Megapixel Canon 5D Mark II (Full Frame) with 17-40mm Canon EF wide angle lens.

Mark uses a Manfrotto tripod and cable release for long exposures. His kit includes a Lee filter system with different strength graduated neutral density filters and a Schneider polariser.

Natural Light Photography

All photographs displayed in the online gallery have been photographed solely using natural light. Mark does not use any coloured filters when shooting or add colours to photographs during post production. The incredible light and colour that you see in Mark's photographs are a result of repeatedly revisiting locations during times of the day when most people are still asleep in bed or at home unwinding for the day. It is during these times when you are most likely to experience what Mark likes to call 'magic light'. Usually it only lasts for a matter of minutes or sometimes even seconds, but when it happens he is there, ready and waiting to capture it!


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