I think it would be interesting to be dropped off someplace completely foreign (not knowing where I’m going ahead of time), shoot all day, have my memory of it wiped, and then look at what I shot. Kind of like Winogrand—who waited a few years before processing and printing his exposures so he’d have no distinct memory of making them—plus.
Month: October 2007
LensWork magazine newsstand price increase
Apparently the newsstand price for LensWork magazine will be increasing to US $12.95 in January 2008. Yeow! But, to be fair, LensWork has exceptionally high print quality and no advertising.
(Subscription rates may or may not be affected, I’m not sure.) Subscription rates will remain unchanged.
How to load large format film holders (video tutorial)
Links mentioned in the video
Redscale film technique: what happens when you load film backwards
Film data index, includes notch codes
BBC "Genius of Photography" series debuts tonight
The BBC’s six-part television series, The Genius of Photography, premiers tonight (Thursday, 25 October, 2007) on BBC Four at 9pm GMT.
Tonight’s programme is Fixing the Shadows:
Photography first came to life in Venice where Abe Morell used bin-liners and masking tape to turn a room into a camera—but the images created were transitory.
Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre discovered how to ‘fix the shadows’ to produce permanent images and at that moment photography was born.
Fixing the Shadows follows the birth of photography through to the age of mass photography triggered by the creation of Kodak by George Eastman.
See the BBC’s overview for more information.
Homemade 6×17 stretch Pinholga
Shikihan made this insane 6×17 "Limousine" pinhole camera out of a Holga! You can see two test shots made with it in Tokyo here and here on Flickr.
She’s made a bunch of other cool pinhole cameras (and makes great photos with them), check them out!
Mentes Urbanas show, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Sejam bem vindos!
Dia 31 de outubro [2007], as 19 horas no 00
October 31, 7pm at 00 – Rio de Janeiro
Features work by the mighty pinhole/toy camera photographer Rodrigo Perez!
There’s a larger, more readable version of the flyer here.
Diana spool tension hack
Check out freerobotpants‘ simple and effective hack for adding spool tension to Diana toy cameras: tape!
Steven Hight photography show, San Francisco, US
The [unusually informative] flyer says it all! You can see more of Hight’s work at his Web site, StevenHight.com, and on Flickr.
Solarizing developer
Solarization is overexposure to the point of tonal reversal, where areas on the film that would be totally black (the sun, for example) start to get lighter again. You can achieve the same thing printing in the darkroom by turning on the lights during developing. (Technically doing it in camera is called soliarization and in the darkroom it’s the Sabatier Effect, but the terms are used more or less interchangeably.)
I thought that was it, until Tom Persinger of f295 pointed me to this article by Ed Buffaloe at Freestyle—it turns out you can do it chemically with thiosulfate developer.
Includes recipe and examples.
Bay Area Photographers Collective "Landscape Revisited" show, CA, US
Erin Malone writes:
Bay Area Photographers Collective
November 4–November 18 [2007]
Landscape Revisited
Mendocino Art Center
A BAPC Members’ ExhibitionReception: Saturday, November 10, 5–8pm.
Mendocino Art Center’s Main Gallery
45200 Little Lake St. (downtown)
Mendocino, CA 95460
(707) 937-5818 | (800) 653-3328Photographers:
Rebecca Chang, Tom De Carlo, Adrienne Defendi, Alan George, Beth Kientzle, Eric Larson, Deborah D. Lattimore, Thomas Lavin, Art Levit, Donna Levreault, Erin Malone, Charlotte Niel, Heather Polley, Ari Salomon, Angelika Schilli, Kirk Thompson, Kay Taneyhill, Gloria Upchurch(photos on postcard: Beth Kientzle, Deborah Lattimore, Kirk Thompson, Eric Larson)