I want to try an experiment where I only shoot landscape and don’t turn the camera to shoot portrait mode. Landscape fits the web so much better!
Or, I could try my hand at square medium format again and shoot with a Holga/Diana.
Light Fixture
Tag: art
Safety glass
Window/Reflections
Blackberry Tour 9630, somewhere in SOMA/San Francisco.
Umbrella
Discovery Museum, Blackberry Tour 9600, and a crazy random happenstance.
Building with Flare
Another city shot taken with my Jazz 207 Jelly camera. It’s rapidly becoming my favorite toy camera. Again.
And, my original Jazz post is now #3 on Google searches for “Jazz Jelly”!
Sidewalk Reading, San Francisco
Wheelbarrow
Stages of a photographer
[via Clusterflock ]
Standpipes
Four Chairs
Penmax toy camera, generic 200 ISO film. The Penmax is rapidly becoming one of my favorite toy cameras; it’s very similar to the “TIME Magazine” 35mm cameras. Shutter speed is approximately 1/100th second, a 2-blade diaphragm adjusts to f/8, f/11 and f/16 – and makes truly weird bokeh.
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 ]
Ciao, digital. Hello, unpredictable art.
From SFGate.com comes this article about the 2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show at Rayko Photo in Francisco.
Plastic cameras are cheap, prone to light leaks and unpredictable. Which is why a lot of photographers are drawn to them in the digital age of pixel counts, precision focus and Photoshop.
“You don’t know how the image is going to turn out when you shoot with a plastic camera. The unpredictability is a big part of the draw,” says San Francisco photographer Carlos Arietta, one of the many artists whose work is on view in the RayKo Photo Center’s 2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show.
Filament
ZANINE
Fire-Water (Happy Accident)
Here’s a happy accident -� I loaded a roll of 36 exposure film. I then (a) thought I was done after exposure 24, and (b) opened the camera back while forgetting to rewind the film first, exposing the film.
3 Streetcars
I took a little PhotoCrawl on my lunch hour today, first to Kitchenette for lunch and then to see what’s changed in Dogpatch.
Shoehorning a digicam into a Leica M
Leica has gone nouveau-retro with the digital Leica M series. Other companies, like Vivitar, have come out with digital cameras featuring current tech, but designs reminiscent of retro rangefinder cameras.
This retro camera beats them all. The maker shoehorned a Sony DSC-WX1 digital camera into a Leica (or, more accurately, what appears to be a Soviet FED Leica copy) rangefinder body. The text and video are in Japanese, but a picture is worth a thousand words, right?
Act Like Ya Know
Another WTF moment walking around San Francisco. Sutro Tower, Magnum, the Bay bridge and Abe Lincoln FTW!
Tableau
This roll of film sat in my freezer for several years before being shot in my LOMO LC-A+ last year, then it sat in the bottom of my 6 Million Dollar bag
Signpost
Recently, I’ve been shot most of my street candids portrait-style. I don’t know where this is coming from, maybe I should buy a square-frame medium format camera to cure myself of this? Or am I just looking for an excuse to buy a Holga, Diana or a Lubitel?
Does anyone have a favorite, obscure medium format toy camera I don’t know about? Let me know.
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