About Mark Gray

Mark Gray is one of Australia's leading professional landscape photographers. A completely self taught photographer, Mark specialises in stunning panoramic photography of Australian landscapes. Mark shoots with a medium format film camera allowing him to capture incredible detail in his photographs and blow them up extremely large without losing any quality.


Where It All Began

One icy cold morning during the winter of 2004, Mark witnessed 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, Mark decided he wanted to learn how to capture those moments effectively and set out to teach himself everything that was required. Soon afterwards he 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. This deep passion and dedication has combined to create one of Australia's freshest landscape photographers.


Photographic Equipment

Mark shoots with a panoramic Fuji G617 professional medium format film camera with a 105mm lens. He shoots solely 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 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 polariser.