Here, at the Schlaboratory, our scientists are constantly searching for new ways to leverage 3D printing to the very narrow application of pinhole photography. Earlier this summer, a breakthrough wide angle panoramic design, the Kaiju Pinhole Gamera, was released to the wild. At this writing, I believe I have the only two representative samples of…
Oskar Barnack, inventor of the iconic Leica 35mm camera, was sickly, and sick of schlepping big unwieldy cameras with him during the long hikes he liked to do. His solution was, naturally, to invent the most influential piece of imaging technology of the twentieth century. None of us are likely to ever accomplish something as…
Driving along the road to Black Head through Gerroa, we happened to see a sign between two houses saying Pathway. Behind Gerroa, and down this track were rolling hills meeting the sea, and black cliffs, beyond a rocky cove. We ventured along the beach, until we reached the shelf beneath the cliff. Every so often…
A couple of weeks ago, someone in a facebook group posted a bunch of photos from a 1911 book of amateur photographers. I loved the idea of his sharing work by people whose names had faded into the archives, and immediately decided my daughter and I needed to try to recreate some of the examples.…
Week 19 is brought to you by random stuff. The black and white shots are from a roll that sat in my T60 for about a month. Half of it was randoms, and the other half got shot on the same trip as the Holga. Those are their own special thing. I was out with my…
via Year of Film – UNDEREXPOSED: Alternative Photography http://ift.tt/1IoTfdx The jury still is out on this set. I’m not exactly happy with it, but at least things look better than the last roll. Cinestill film is a great concept, and looking back I really should have bought more than just a single roll when I…
Note: The past few rolls have inadvertently become part camera/lens reviews. It was what happened naturally when I began writing the posts, and since many people really like gear reviews (myself included) I didn’t fight it. Buying cameras, lenses and accessories can be a science, a series of rational decisions, a spur of the moment…
As a historian by day, I have often wondered why my profession has such a penchant for photographic metaphors. We “sharpen images” that have been seen before, but will profit from higher resolution. We “zoom in” on tiny facets, or attempt to see things with a “wide-angle lens.” We attempt to increase the “depth of field”…
The wildfires are awful, they’re choking everybody out, making it hard to breathe, everything has a weird color to it from the red sun shining through the haze. And it’s dry. Crackling, blisteringly dry. My skin feels like sandpaper and my lungs do as well. SO what better time to pack up the kids and…
In week 18, I did some more exploring around my usual haunts in Chinatown. This time I thought it might be productive to make some challenges for myself. The first challenge was to “get low”, and the second was to make an interesting photo of a parking meter. Both happened, although I’ll let you be…
This happens all the time, if you’re me. Which, ok, you’re not. But maybe you can relate anyway. Here’s the situation: You (or, I, in this scenario) watch some camera gear on eBay. There’s one of those big lots and it seems to be going for a reasonable price, or if you’re extra lucky, for dirt…
via Year of Film – UNDEREXPOSED: Alternative Photography http://ift.tt/1NqAz55 If it weren’t for about 3 images on this roll, it’d be safe to say that I could consider it a failure. But sometimes this happens with expired film, and based on the other uses of this same batch I should have expected that it wouldn’t…
52 rolls 