Stine Vogt and Svein Magnussen showed 16 pictures including these two to trained artists and non-artists (psychologists) enrolled in Norway’s top graduate programs in their respective disciplines, using eye-tracking cameras and software to monitor where they looked.
Continue reading at Cognitive Daily, the results are interesting!
50 inch image circle, weighs 7.5 kg/16 pounds! Check this monster out on eBay.
Holgamods are having a photo contest. No entry fee, you retain copyright, and other rare indications of sanity.
Yesterday started out beautifully. It was almost 80°F in the sun, which was a welcome change from the cold New York winter, and I went to Peach Hill Park, which is an old apple orchard. I haven’t fixed the light leak in my one particular copy of a Spartus that’s my favorite landscape camera (it’s not the cool kind of leak, it washes out the whole frame), and I didn’t have time to load film holders, so 4×5 was out, too. Instead, I reached for my Hasselblad 501C/M and noticed the 350mm lens that I’d only ever shot maybe 3 frames with. (For the record, I inherited both from my father; I’m not in the habit of buying Hasselblad lenses only to leave them in the closet for years.)
I’m not a big fan of long lenses. Not that I hate them or anything, but they don’t do much for me unless I physically can’t get close enough to what I want to shoot, like at a show or a wedding. I tend to go for normal to moderately wide, even finding the standard "normal" 50mm on 35mm film to be a touch long. 350mm is generally outside of my visual consciousness. I figured I’d give myself a challenge and took only the one camera and lens to see what I could learn.
I walked around and shot for about an hour and half and packed it in when it started raining. I took my time, shooting only 24 exposures, framing probably five shots for every one I took, really trying to get a feel for what this thing lends itself to. I think I failed. Other than being unweidly—the camera, lens, and hood together are longer than my forearm—I had no grand epiphanies. I don’t feel like I even got my foot in the door, but I’ll keep at it for a bit longer. For better or worse, it sure is different.
UPDATE: photos are here.
Continuing the flurry of new Holga and pinhole stuff from holgamods is the 35mm Holga. It’s a standard Holga 120S (not the manufactured 35mm versions) with an added rewind knob, so you can expose the entire height of the 35mm film, including around the sprocket holes, as pictured above. (Of course you can also crop out the normal portion for non-sprocket hole panoramas.) What makes this cool is that holgamods have added a knob on the bottom left so you can rewind the film back into the canister and take it out of the camera without having to use a darkroom or a film changing bag as you normally do. Excellent!!
Check it out, price is US $44.95.
Polaroid Week Spring 2007 is in progress!
You wanna play? Post a Polaroid a day.
March 12 – March 16.
Five days. Five polaroids. (Or more, if you’re so inspired.)
Starting on Monday March 12. So, dust off your SX70, 600 or Polaroid weapon of choice this week and start shooting!
Or dig out old squares you’ve found, stolen, or have had laying around since high school and scan scan scan.
Here’s our only request: please post photos you haven’t posted on Flickr before. Meaning, give us something new — don’t contribute a Polaroid to this group that you already posted last May. That’s just plain lazy.
C’mon. Play with us. You know you want to.
Love,
You can participate here on Flickr and here on fotolog!
Glenn E. Stewart shows you how to re-spool 120 film onto 620 spools so you can keep shooting those older cameras. Excellent instructions with photos of each step.
He’s got good info on other photographic topics on the rest of his Web site, too!
Sorry, I don’t read Portuguese, but maybe you do! Photographs by Jaqueline Maia.
You wanna play? Post a Polaroid a day.
March 12 – March 16.
Five days. Five polaroids. (Or more, if you’re so inspired.)
Starting on Monday March 12. So, dust off your SX70, 600 or Polaroid weapon of choice this week and start shooting!
Or dig out old squares you’ve found, stolen, or have had laying around since high school and scan scan scan.
Here’s our only request: please post photos you haven’t posted on Flickr before. Meaning, give us something new — don’t contribute a Polaroid to this group that you already posted last May. That’s just plain lazy.
C’mon. Play with us. You know you want to.
Love,
You do have to have a Flickr account to participate, but their free accounts will get the job done! Get some film over the weekend and shoot your pants off!
