I’ve been a member of the Photo Center of the Capital District for the past three years. 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. 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. 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. 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. That film is long gone, but you can still find canisters…
Read MoreA new view of the Olympic Bar sign
I’ve photographed that deteriorating Olympic Bar sign on South Pearl Street with dozens of different films and with dozens of different angles. But, in all honesty, I’ve never photographed the sign the way I did last Thursday night. Background. I realize that the old Olympic Bar neon sign hasn’t worked for years. Heck, there hasn’t…
Read MoreCross your eyes and make a wish…
I’m still trying to tweak this idea of a “stereo view card” recreation. And I’ve got too many freakin’ variables to work with. Do I print the card images as color, or as sepia tones, or as straight black and white? Do I make the pair of images round or square or corner-rounded or domed?…
Read MoreThe Cohoes Falls in a purple-rainbow cast
I’ve been playing with this LomoChrome Purple film now and again. LomoChrome Purple is designed to be shot with a standard 35mm film camera, and it is supposed to replicate the look of infrared film. And if I use different filters on the LomoChrome, it can create dreamlike, surrealistic viewscapes. Yesterday, I took a roll…
Read MoreNikola’s Roses and Tesla’s Tailor Shop
I’ve been trying to find a way to use this Revolog Tesla 2 film, to make a picture that will stand out and impress. So far I’ve shot vintage signage with it… I’ve shot ghost signs with it… I’ve shot baseball pitchers with it. And no matter what I’ve photographed, the pictures are okay –…
Read MorePower and Light à la Свема
This isn’t supposed to happen. I’m not supposed to have second-thoughts or third-thoughts about my pictures. If I think my photos are winners, then I put them in competition and see how they do. I’ll turn the photos into Dream Windows and sell them for charity. I’ll promote the becheebers out of them in this…
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