The Day My Grandmother Exploded, by Kyle Cassidy

[via Kyle Cassidy’s Livejournal ]

Two weeks ago I got this crazy idea in my head to find a ten year old 1.3 megapixel Leica Digilux and make a series of images with it based on lines people sent me from novels. Well, it’s done. It’s a 24 page booklet called The Day My Grandmother Exploded, a quote from Iain Banks “The Crow Road” suggested by Craig Zeni.

Three hundred people emailed quotes, I picked the first twenty. (Ed: Note – Me! Me! Me! I was one of the 20!)

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Camerabag, More iPhone Camera Fun

I had a lot of fun with Hipstamatic, the iPhone camera application that’s taking my Facebook friends list by storm. It does feel odd to buy a $1.99 app to turn my $199 cameraphone into a $2 plastic camera, but there <<are>> benefits to going digital – for less than the cost of a roll of 120 film, I can shoot endless square format pictures.

I tried CameraBag, another fun photo manipulation app. This app doesn’t have the mind-mangling number of unintuitive film/lens combos that Hipstamatic has. I think I like it better.

The Camerabag filter names make more sense, at least – helga, lomo, 1974, fisheye.

Buy it at the iTunes store, or follow them on Twitter

Holga D?

Holga Dâ„¢ Concept Is The Netbook Of DSLRs

The Holga D concept by Saikat Biswas envisions a simple plastic-lens plastic-body combo for digital photography. Producing an ethereal quality that celebrates image imperfections like light leaks and inaccurate exposures art photographers that swear on film may finally make the switch. The Holga D strips away many excessive features of digital cameras that parallels the netbook-to-laptop functionalism ratio. For example, the Holga D daringly omits the reputedly vital LCD screen on its body to mimic the delayed gratification featured in film photography.

Read more about it here and here.

[via fuzzyeyeballs ]

Meters, Hanapepe HI

I was in Kaua’i last week, spent most of my time lounging at the pool and the beach, but took some day trips (short trips, given the size of the island!)

Hanapepe is a funky little artists community on the southwest side of the island with old buildings, artists galleries, a laid-back bohemian feel, and some of the best coffee and sweets on the island, at Blue Planet Cafe.

I brought my LOMO LC-A+ and shot 3 rolls of film. I’m thinking about switching back to my old 1990 LC-A, though. I like having framelines and focus indicators in the viewfinder, and I wanted to shoot with my color flash. The LC-A doesn’t have a setting to force the aperture/shutter speed, so I wasn’t sure how the pictures would turn out. I would have liked to get some shots of “colorsplashed” palm trees at night.

I took most of my shots with my Blackberry Tour 9630 – with a resolution of 3 megapixels, image stabilization, and an adequate flash, I barely took my digital point-and-shoot out of the case!

 

Photojojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide

Have you downloaded Hipstamatic from the iTunes store yet? It turns your iPhone into a retro camera with a number of effects. There are lens effects, film effects and flash effects that can be layered on top of each other.

A HUGE number of effects. Effects with bewildering names, like Kaimal, Helga (we can figure THAT one out), Dreampop, Kodot, Roboto, and my favorite, Jimmy.

Thankfully, the folks at Photojojo have come out with PhotoJojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide, showing examples of all 336 possible layered effects.

[via photojojo ]