Sep - 29th
Blogs Kurt is reading
Posted at 2:22 pm | Filed Under blog
Nic Nichol’s blog: Four Corners Dark: Holga, Lomo, and low-fi photography. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I’m reading my own mind. He’s loving the Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim camera (my own reviews forthcoming), ranting on the ranters who claim you can duplicate low-fi with photoshop, so why bother with plastic, and […]
Sep - 25th
Lomographic Society at Photokina 2008
Posted at 5:30 pm | Filed Under lomo
“The Lomography ‘Future is Analogue’ LomoWall exhibition is revealed at Photokina 2008!†It’s the 5th time Lomography has been invited to participate in the world’s largest photo-imaging event, so we are going all out in celebration of the unique creative use of film coming from one million+ Lomographers worldwide! The LomoWall forms the focal-piece of […]
Sep - 25th
Jazz Jelly camera, revisited
Posted at 9:56 am | Filed Under film, journal
My fixation with LOMO LC-As and film photography began in 2000. About that time, I started collecting toy film cameras. I like the aesthetic, I like the disconnect from technical frippery that a plastic lensed, single aperture, single shutter speed gives. I like vignetting. I like chromatic aberration. I like soft focus. One of the […]
Sep - 22nd
Linked networks
Posted at 3:29 pm | Filed Under blog
Ok, so I post to WordPress. WordPress posts an update to Twitter via Twitter tools and to Livejournal. LJ gets the whole post with comments redirected to WordPress. Twitter posts a shortened URL to the blog post. Twitter gets slurped once a day into LoudTwitter, which also posts to LJ. And, Facebook also gets updated […]
Sep - 20th
Tubes
Posted at 12:22 am | Filed Under digital, journal, pencam
Sep - 20th
Ride
Posted at 12:16 am | Filed Under pencam
Sep - 14th
Toy camera effects with digital SLRs
Posted at 1:45 am | Filed Under digital, pencam
I love lo-fi photography. Shooting lo-fi removes any obsession with capturing the “perfect” image. With lo-fi photography, I focus more on composition, creativity and experimentation than when I shoot with a “real” camera. Vignetting, soft edge focus, light aberrations, limited exposure latitude, color casts, even light leaks – the imperfections add a level of personality […]
Sep - 9th
Lomography+JPG Mag+Photojojo meetup (Updated)
Posted at 7:36 pm | Filed Under lomo
See http://www.kataan.org/blog/2008/sf-lomo-meetup/ for the whole story. Now, with more photos!
Sep - 9th
How to spend quality time on the web?
Posted at 1:47 pm | Filed Under uncategorized
Here’s an interesting post from Merlin Mann, one of my favorite productivity gurus on how he’s going to improve his approach to the web: …To be honest, I don’t have a specific agenda for what I want to do all that differently, apart from what I’m already trying to do every day: identify and destroy […]
Sep - 3rd
Crumpler 7 Million Dollar Home
Posted at 5:56 pm | Filed Under uncategorized
I’ve never been a fan of camera bags that looked too much like a “CAMERA BAG!!!“. Much of my photography is done at dusk, early mornings, and urban street street photography in dodgy neighborhoods. I need to be able to pull my camera out, take a shot quickly and stuff it back quickly, all the […]
Sep - 3rd
“American Photobooth”, a book review
Posted at 4:33 pm | Filed Under uncategorized
American Photobooth is a new illustrated history of photobooths, which first made their splash in the 1920s. Photographer Nakki Goranin became obsessed with the technology after creating a series of her own photobooth self-portraits now in the collection of the International Center for Photography in New York. She then spent nearly a decade tracing the […]
Sep - 1st
BBF, a TLR 35mm camera?
Posted at 6:32 pm | Filed Under lomo
(updated, more picture-y goodness at the bottom!) A little birdie told me about the BBF (Blackbird, Fly), a camera that the LOMO Society was planning to sell. I hadn’t heard of it before and decided to do a little research. A little googling uncovered this post with some information. It sounds fun – a 35mm […]
Sep - 1st
Mimicking film with digital tricks
Posted at 12:34 am | Filed Under uncategorized
Pssst! I’ve got a secret! Most decent imaging programs have the capability of automating actions. With the right actions applied to a photo, you can easily mimic some of the quirky qualities of your favorite film camera on multiple photos and bundle the actions to share with others. To Wit, the Holganizer. With it, you […]
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