I was just reading the current (May 2007) issue of EQ magazine when I came across an interview with high-end microphone designer Klaus Heyne. In it, he very nicely summed up what I’ve been trying to verbalize about photography, image manipulation (be it chemical, optical, or digital), and good "straight" lens rendering in general (sharpness, [...]

Two new step-by-step how-tos have been posted at Alternative Photography: An introduction to Polaroid 600 and image film manipulations Indirect Low Light Polaroid 600 Photograms Both were written by Jenelle Norris, whose work you can see at her web site and her gallery at AlternativePhotography.com.

Polaroid’s removal of Time-Zero film from the market left a huge gap in the hearts of many photographers—a gap has just been filled by f295 member Erik Wiklund, who has come up with a a new manipulation technique for available peel-apart Polaroid films! See the instructions and sample images at Polaroid.com or check out the [...]