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One of my goals for 2017’s Competition Season is to create a three-dimensional lenticular print with my camera gear.  I’ve come up with several ideas and concepts, and depending on how things go, I hope to have something that will dazzle.  And although I have had some successful lenticular “magic motion” prints have done well…

So here I am at the top of a parking garage in downtown Albany on a Saturday night. Sounds like the beginning of a pop song, doesn’t it? No it doesn’t.  😀 I wanted to try something with my new Soviet mirror lens, the MC MTO-11, which is an 1100mm f/16 cadiatropic piece of glass. …

So here’s the deal.  I’ve been puttering around with cracked-open 126 Kodak Instamatic film for a few years.  And so far, the results have been good enough.  Yes, I’ve entered some shots in competition, but still… My problem is that I have to find a way to make the film’s limitations – the green framing…

There’s too much of a dreamer in me.  Too much of trying to pull my concepts and ideas out of my tangled, damaged brain and put them into some sort of cognizant thought. Thus begat my concept of splitfilm.  In splitfilm, a photographer takes two (or more) rolls of film and rolls them together so…

Last Saturday, I took several of my cameras to Niagara Falls for a little “Chuck needs to take photos and get away from all the stresses” day.  And while I was initially pleased and surprised at the power of the fifrst photos that came from my BlackBerry PRIV camera phone (have I mentioned how much…

Insomnia’s kicking my tired butt again. Okay, I’m awake.  Gotta find something to let me drift back to slumberland. Maybe I need a walk. Or maybe I need to take my camera and photograph something. Yeah, at night. And the strange thing is… when you’re half-awake, there’s parts of your brain that are functioning at…

Of late, I’ve been testing different cameras and films by shooting at St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands.  If things work, I put the finished photo in a short pile for an upcoming project.  If not… I try again. And in the category of “try again,” I’ve tried – for many years – to get a…

I love this Revolog boutique film.  Especially the Tesla formulations, which add lightning strikes right onto the film itself. That being said, the other day I took a batch of Revolog Tesla film for a photo shoot.  The thing with Revolog film is, you don’t know where or how the lightning will appear in the…