Author: Kurt Weiske
Hawaii via toy camera
First Shot, Third Canonet
This is a medium-res scan from a test roll out of my third Canonet QL 17 GIII. It’s been one of my favorite cameras over the years, and one of the best deals out there if you’re looking for a cheap rangefinder. Canon sold lots of them, so there’s spare parts galore. It’s easy to take apart, so DIYers can buy spare bodies and tinker. (See above)The dedicated flash is dirt simple – tie the aperture to the distance setting and change the aperture when it senses a flash.
This was taken with a skylight UV filter on, I had to correct a serious yellow/green cast. Or, maybe that was my 10 year old, $.99 film? Or maybe this is the Matrix?
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!
Monochrome Stop
This was the combination of a dreary overcast day, a weathered sign, and no de-saturation. All colors (or lack thereof) is as captured.
I want to be a photographer someday. Any advice?
Originally posted by kylecassidy:
A Reader Writes: I want to be a photographer someday. Any advice?
Yes, lots.
Photography is a mixture of Artistic Ability and Technical Skill — the magic of the mix isn’t written in stone. The world is filled with technically proficient but artistically uninspired photographers, there seem to be a smaller number of artistically gifted but technically unsavvy artists, but they’re out there as well. But the most successful people have a mixture of both — they have an artistic vision, and they posses the technical skills to know how to make that a reality. The technical skills are the easy part, you can learn them from a book — f-stops and shutter speeds and light modifiers, etc. The difficult thing to come up with is an idea.
0) Possibly the most important thing of all: Find creative people and make them part of your world. They don’t have to be photographers. They can be writers, or musicians, or actors or puppet makers. Have a peer group of people who are doing things. They’ll be your inspiration, your facilitators, your idea makers, your artistic partners. Do this for the rest of your life. Artists rarely survive in a vacuum.
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Lost advertising of the sealed-off London Underground
c1959 posters as found in disused area of Notting Hill Gate tube station, London, 2010
Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 – 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway.
This shows several of the posters – and the original Central London Railway tiled walls from 1900.
We will be leaving these intact – and please do not pester the station staff as the posters are wholly inaccessible – which is why they’ve probably survived 50 odd years!
The photos were taken officially – please do credit London Underground in any links.
Uploaded by mikeyashworth on 13 Jun 10, 12.55AM PDT.
Grate-23
Light Fixture
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.
iPhonetography, a new Kyle Cassidy project
http://www.iphonetography.net/
THE CAMERA THAT COMES WITH THE iPHONE IS TERRIBLE
Many people decry it’s smallish megapixel count (3), but really, as any serious digital photographer will tell you, size doesn’t matter. The most frustrating thing about the image that comes from the iPhone is the noise. Not audible noise, but digital grain. That, and it’s slow response time, and of course, the lack of control: apart from aiming the camera, selecting a focus area and depressing shutter button, the user doesn’t have any control over aperture (fixed at 2.8) focal length (fixed at 5.9mm), shutter speed, or even ISO, which swings from ~70 into the 1000+ range as it wants.
iT’S A PHONE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
Marks The Spot
Safety glass
Window/Reflections
Blackberry Tour 9630, somewhere in SOMA/San Francisco.
Quiet Carnival
Check out Amy’s post, Quiet Carnival.
Last Thursday night as I drove home from work, I passed the park during golden hour. Buttery light filtered through the trees and lit up the rides. No more lame reasons. I raced the last few blocks to the house to grab my camera (I had my point and shoot with me, but I wanted my DSLR) and the boy and raced back.
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”!
Four Five Two, Jazz Jelly 207
Shot with a Jazz Jelly 207, fairly high-tech as plastic cameras go. Integral lens cover, built-in flash, small enough to fit in your pocket. Classic plastic wide-angle lensed-goodness, fixed shutter speed. Shoot ISO 200 speed film outdoors. Flash is good for 10 feet if you’re lucky (and shooting ISO 400 speed film).
This roll came out with a Matrix-like green cast.
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