It’s Sunday morning, around 8:30 a.m. I’m in Glenmont. The temperature is dropping. I can feel the chills in my bones. I have my experimental camera equipment, my experimental film mixture, and I’m shooting in an experimental location.ย Design the hypothesis, make it work from there.ย And whatever doesn’t work, then I need to re-adjust…
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Cracking the barrier
I’m frustrated.ย This should work, in theory anyway… But over the past couple of years, it’s become more of a barrier than a blessing. Yep.ย I’m trying to make this Instamatic film do something special.ย And it’s not cooperating. Yeah, I know that nobody’s making Instamatic film any more, I know that much of the…
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Santa’s in drydock: an Instamatic project
I’ve been trying to restore my photo-mojo of late, doing whatever it takes to get my photographic eye back in alignment. And in doing so, I decided to return to some of my earlier photo projects, experiments and excursions.ย Sometimes the experiments worked well; but there were other photo-attempts that I started, got frustrated with,…
Read MoreI called an “audible”
Of late, I’ve had a lot of fun with cinemagraph photography and lenticular imagery; essentially, physical photos that move as you stare at them.ย If you visit the Photo Center of Troy for the Members’ Show, you can see my Fagbug and Vaudeville photo; one of my photos at the New York State Fair this…
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Ferris and Flourescence
One of the first “fun” things that new photographers often try, in an effort to have some fun with their camera gear, is to capture a long “light trails” exposure at an amusement park or fairgrounds.ย I did that many years ago at Altamont, “The Orbiter” was one of my early successes. If you’re going…
Read MoreTwo and a half items accepted?
I’ve been a member of the Photo Center of the Capital District for the past three years.ย It’s a fun group, you learn a lot of things, you can improve your craft and your skill sets. And every year around this time, the Photo Center hosts its annual Members’ Show.ย The members submit up to…
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Why I photographed the Olympic Bar sign at 1 in the morning…
My June 2014 shot of the distressed Olympic Bar sign is now illuminated. And by “illuminated,” I mean that the photo now lights up. For real. No kidding. Check out the blog and see how I did it.
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Midnight at Brown Tract Pond
It took over a year of planning and good weather, but I was able to acquire these star trails pictures over the weekend. Want to see them? Read today’s blog.
Read MoreThe Hoffman’s Playland Experiment
So I’ve been testing out this batch of old, expired GAF Aerial 70mm film for a while.ย The goal in using this film is to try and get some ethereal, textured imagery that can create an emotional response in what would otherwise be a drab, boring photograph. Now I have plenty of GAF Aerial film,…
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Suddenly, surreal swirls stimulate something spectacular…
One of my Flickr friends, who uses the Flickr handle nano_burger, likes to experiment with film.ย And like me, he’s played with GAF Aerial 70mm sprocketed film – the same type of film that was used in the 1960’s and 1970’s for sky-view photography.ย That film is long gone, but you can still find canisters…
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