Edwin R Schottstaedt
Biography
My name is Edwin R Schottstaedt and I want to thank you for your interest in my work. I am a self-taught panoramic and landscape photographer specializing in high-quality, limited-edition photographic prints. My journey began in the days of analog film with my father's legendary Nikon F and a 50mm Nikkor lens. By age 25, I transitioned into larger formats, shooting extensively with a Mamiya C220 TLR and a Pentax 6x7 system utilizing 55mm, 75mm, 90mm leaf shutter, and 165mm lenses. I later acquired a Mamiya 7II system with 43mm, 50mm, and 65mm lenses—a legendary medium-format platform that delivered truly amazing clarity and a lifelong love for vibrant analog palettes. My modern process directly bridges that pinnacle of medium-format digital capture with gallery-grade printing. Every panoramic "panoscape" begins with the incredible resolving power of the Fujifilm GFX camera system. By positioning the camera vertically for single rows or horizontally for complex multi-row matrix brackets, I overlap and stitch up to 50 individual exposures into massive master files using PTGui software. This high-end workflow preserves the tiniest details and produces blisteringly sharp, ultra-high-resolution textures that easily far exceed the quality boundaries of traditional film. To translate this intense level of detail from the screen to physical art, I print exclusively using a professional Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4000 wide-format system. Utilizing a 12-color LUCIA PRO archival pigment ink array paired with a specialized Chroma Optimizer, it perfectly mirrors the deep shadow depth and rich color saturation of my classic slide film days. Whether face-mounted on high-gloss metal or wrapped on archival gallery canvas, the final result is a breathtaking, fade-resistant print holding flawless clarity at grand scales up to 48x96 inches.
Artist Statement
My name is Edwin R Schottstaedt and I want to thank you for your interest in my work. I am a self-taught panoramic and landscape photographer specializing in high quality limited edition photographic prints. My first Camera was my dads Nikon F with a 50mm Nikor lens. Shooting with 35mm from age 20 and then moving to larger format cameras at age 25 a Mamiya C220 Medium Format TLR. Then later shooting with the Pentax 6x7 with 75mm, 55mm, 165mm lenses, and the 90mm leaf shutter lens. After using the Pentax on multiple shoots for many years I finally bought myself a Mamiya 7II and 43mm 50mm and 65mm lens the quality was truly amazing. For the last 20 years I have been shooting with the Digital Cameras Canon Nikon and Sony and Finally shooting with the Fujis GFX 100. It is my belief that film is higher in resolution than digital. So, for making very large prints, film currently can’t be beat. This is especially true for photos which have a lot of texture that needs to be preserved, such as landscapes. This is why I use the best digital cameras and position the camera vertically for single rows and horizontally for multi rows then rotating the camera on its base. I then overlap portions of each frame shooting up to 50 images for a single image. PTGUI is one of the best stitching software out there. With it I can bring together up to 50 images usually 5 rows of 10 this is enough to finally far exceed film and bring the tiniest details to life.