Last Sunday, I tried to take some pictures in St. Agnes Cemetery. Unfortunately, mother Nature was busy unloading gallons and gallons of water from the sky, which meant that I couldn’t get the beautiful, sunny day I had hoped to achieve. I had two “prepared” cameras – my Holga 120N and my Agfa Chief –…
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The “Swiss Roll” photo project, courtesy of a rusty old box camera
First I tried cramming two rolls of 35mm film into a medium-format camera. And yes, the results were impressive. Then I tried shooting with vintage 50-year old film. And yes, the results were astounding. Now comes my next magic trick. And whether or not this works might be the reason I enter or don’t enter…
Read MoreCompetition #1 – The Albany Center Gallery Photo Regional
It’s competition time, two thousand eleven. No, I’m not talking about trivia. I’m talking about photography competitions – essentially getting my photos and my artworks into various shows and galleries and competitive judging events. Granted, there are competitions I will enter without question – the New York State Fair, for example, as well as the…
Read MoreAn orange universe: the world of “Redscale” film
Redscale photography was discovered by accident some years ago, and it’s created a new discipline in both experimental and lo-fi photography. What is redscale, you ask? Follow along. If you put a 35mm film cartridge into your camera and shoot, you’ll get normal pictures. Now what if you put that 35mm film cartridge into your…
Read MoreOld Film Shots: Ansco All-Weather Pan, circa 1964
This actually took a lot longer than I expected, but here’s what happened. I actually won an eBay auction in March for a pack of Ansco All-Weather Panchromatic 120 black-and-white film, with an expiration date of 1964. Unfortunately, the rollfilm took forever to arrive – and when it did, I noticed that the seller accidentally…
Read MoreIt’s a PolaChrome world…
So yesterday, I posted pictures taken with Polaroid’s defunct 35mm instant slide film PolaBlue, which is supposed to create blue-on-white monochromatic images. Well, by the time I got the film, it had developed a color shift to create blue-on-magenta images. I also received a few packs of Polaroid’s color slide film, PolaChrome, and I popped…
Read MoreIt’s a PolaBlue World…
A month or so ago, I tried to mess around with Polaroid’s 35mm instant slide films, including the blue-white contrasting film PolaBlue. My first test results weren’t all that spectacular, and I was about to give up on the project entirely. Then I found another couple of canisters of both PolaBlue and PolaChrome film, and…
Read MoreAnother “Split Film” photo – Feeling hungry?
I haven’t done my “split film” photo trick in a while – cramming two rolls of 35mm film into one camera and then shooting away. But last week, I prepared the Holga for another run of split film photos. Since I had to take a drive into Canada, I taped up the Holga with two…
Read MoreReaction to the 50 year old photo project
About a month or two ago, I started showing some of my photos on the reddit “photocritique” subreddit forum. The first one I displayed, the Coca-Cola “split film” image, suddenly got a ton of hits – and a visit from the editors of PetaPixel.com, who wanted to run an article on the tricky format. I…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Testing out my Kenko 180
Among my arsenal of camera lenses that I’ve acquired over the years is this Kenko 180° screw-on fisheye lens. From the looks of it, I should be able to shine a red light through it and pretend it’s the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although I already have a dedicated fisheye lens (my…
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