My TU blog buddy Teri Conroy suggested I enter this competition, and you know what I always say… bloggers support bloggers. I was allowed to enter a maximum of five images in the upcoming New York Sheep and Wool Festival Photography Contest, and I submitted all five in the “objects” category.ย Even though it is…
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The “Single Shot Half Shot” Photography Experiment: Two Cameras With One Film
Remember my splitfilm experiments, where I crammed two rolls of film into one camera and shot away, then re-assembled the developed films – like a jigsaw puzzle – into award-winning photos?ย Sure you do.ย Two films in one camera.ย Great idea. But what if I tried two cameras with one film? You heard me… two…
Read MoreKodachrome film could become “Kodachrome: The Movie.”
Remember last year when I – along with thousands of other shutterbugs – took the last photos with Kodachrome film and sent them off to Dwayne’s Photo?ย You would have thought that Parsons, Kansas was the greatest tourist attraction in the Midwest; people were driving from all over the nation to get their film to…
Read MoreI love cameras as much as the next person … but … um…
Andy Gregory, one of the many authors of the Times Union’s CRUMBS blog, sent me this little video clip.ย It’s a time-lapse shot of a person getting a tattoo. So I’m watching it, and frame by frame, step by step, I see the person getting a standard twin-lens reflex camera tattooed on their forearm… then…
Read MoreUrban autumn foliage
If you can’t get out to the country to see the leaves change colors… sometimes you can see it happen in a puddle of water along Green Street in Albany.ย Which I did.ย And I got a picture of it. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, it’s nice to know that I found soem beauty and…
Read More“A photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses.” Wow, did Nikon really say that?
A couple of disclosures here.ย When it comes to cameras, I am a Nikon man, first and foremost.ย Yes, I have nine different film and digital cameras in my holdings, but two of them are Nikon product – my digital D700 and my film F100. Nikon has been my primary camera of choice, ever since…
Read MoreMy results at the 2011 Big E Photography Contest
A couple of weeks ago, I took three foam-boarded entries – Midnight at the Palace Theater, Still Life: Coca-Cola Picnic and Stella’s Best Foot Forward – to the Eastern States Exposition, the “Big E,” as part of their photography contest.ย Midnight at the Palace Theater had already snagged a ribbon at Altamont, the Coca-Cola Picnic…
Read MoreThe Weave: A New Photography Experiment
My buddy Jeremy McNamara recently sent me this picture, an artwork created by South Korean photographer Seung Hoon Park.ย “Can you figure out how this was done?” he asked me. Impressive… isn’t it? After much research, I found that Ms. Park, whose works have been shown throughout Asia and the United States, uses 16mm movie…
Read MoreThe Cohoes Falls: How to go from idea to photo entry in 72 hours flat!
I wasn’t planning on entering any more competitions this year.ย Yes, I still have to wait for the results of the Big E, and I did submit a photo to the St. Agnes Cemetery photo contest, but that was about it. That was until Ron LaBarr sent me an e-mail. Ron plays on the trivia…
Read MoreSo I heard back from my donated cameras…
Last June, I decided to donate two of my SLR film cameras – my red-leathered Kiev 19 and my blue-leathered Nikkormat FTn – to an organization called the Film Photography Podcast, an organization dedicated to the preservation of analogue film photography.ย The FPP will take old cameras and donate them to aspiring film students who…
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