Polaroid Week Fall 2007 is in full swing over on Flickr, and the pictures are looking good! Here are some highlights so far (posted with the kind permission of the photographers):
Untitled, Cate
Belly, Jinnie
Ferry Terminal, Laura A. Watt
Untitled, Tony Sokolowski
Untitled, gardengal
Rivulet, Roamin
Polaroid Week continues through 7 October, so there’s plenty of time left to join in! Grab a camera and get shooting!
Mark Antony Smith has nice reviews, with sample images, of Adox CHS 50 ART and Adox CHS 100 ART black and white films.
Fotoman Camera, makers of large format and medium format panoramic cameras, are having a sale:
Purchase any Fotoman Camera Kit, and select an additional Cone Assembly of your choice… free of charge.
This offer is limited to on-hand inventories, and is valid through December 31st, 2007.
Please contact any of our authorized dealers to take advantage of this limited time offer.
MTF charts are graphs of lens resolution that are meant to give you an idea of how a given lens performs at different points across the frame. (Most lenses are sharpest in the centre and get a bit softer as you go out, and these charts illustrate that characteristic.) They’re easy to read once you understand them, but unfortunately they’re usually explained very badly.
Mike Johnston has put together the first sane and easy-to-understand breakdown I’ve ever seen. Check it out at The Online Photographer.
Chris Keeney talks to pinhole/Holga/Polaroid experimental photographer Therese Brown as part of his excellent ongoing series of interviews with fine art photographers.
You can see Brown’s work at her Web site, ThisIsWhatISee.com as well as on Flickr.
This one’s a must-read, so do it at ChrisKeeney.com.
Shoot Polaroids and upload them to the Polaroid Week 2007 group on Flickr:
Seven days. Seven polaroids. (or more if you’re so inspired, just not more than 3 a day)
Starting on Monday October 1. So, dust off your SX70, Spectra, 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 are our requests: 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. Also, please don’t post more than three photos to the pool a day.
C’mon. Play with us. You know you want to.
Love,
It’s simple. It’s awesome. Get shooting!
Squarefrog, who over the last year has put together what is far and away the most comprehensive Holga information site going, is having a one year anniversary contest. All you have to do to enter is fill out a very short questionnaire. The contest is open to everyone world-wide.
Prizes and stuff:
First prize – Lomography Holga 120CFN package
Second prize – Holgon Strobe Flash
Third prize – 5 rolls of Agfa RSX II 200 ISO slide filmAll you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is to fill in the following form and click submit. The competition closes on Sunday October 7th 2007. Winners will be notified by email the following week. The information you submit is purely for my own interest, I would never pass on any of it to anyone!
I know Squarefrog online, and when he says he won’t give out your information, I believe him.
Marie-Noëlle Leroy says:
The Andre Malraux Cultural Center of Le Bourget (France) organizes his second International lensless Photographic Exhibition ! Uniquely pinhole, zone-plate, sieve…
The topic of the exhibition is: Urban Nature
Urban nature! From the flowers on the balcony to the dogged bit of grass growing between the paving stones of the streets, from the arranged parks to the falow lands, from the free flying pigeons to the bears in a cage at the zoo… The pinhole photography must give your answer to the question: which place does still occupy the nature in our large cities?Each photographer will have a surface of 1 m2 that he will fill with its own way with the number of images which he wants! 1 image of 100 X 100 cm, 4 images of 50 × 50 cm or 100 images of 10 × 10 cm… which they are presented in square, rectangle, L or… it doesn’t matters the number of pictures and the arrangement, the surface must be 1 m square!
The exhibition will take place from 2008 March 4th to April 27th,
at the Andre Malraux Cultural Center of Le Bourget (France)To take part, send before 2007, December 31th, by Internet only a file including the following parts:
- Reproductions of images such as they will appear in the Exhibition – Each reproductions must be numbered. Each reproduction will measure 15 cm (5.9 in) in its greatest dimension in 300 dpi, then to have passed into jpeg format, maximum quality. Each one must be cleaned up, in RGB format for colours, in gray levels for Black and White.
- A sketch presenting the arrangement with the number of each picture. You aren’t obliged to use frames, your pictures can be simply pasted on a rigid support or presented in the form of a roller…
- a note (format RTF or PDF) presenting (in French, English or Spanish) :
- Your Name, First name, Address,Country , and e-mail address.
- A short biography (5 lines)
- Characteristics of the pinhole-camera(s) used to create these photography (focal length, diaphragm, …)
- A short text (in French, English or Spanish) presenting your work on this subject (5 lines).
- A photography of each pinhole-cameras used, numbered in correspondence with the reproductions. This (these) image(s) will measure 7 cm (2.75 in) in its greatest dimension in 300 dpi, passed into JPEG maximum quality.
The files not corresponding to this request will be systematically rejected.
The selected authors will be informed by e-mail only during the last two weeks of January 2008. The selected authors will have to send in January (dead line for reception: February 10th) by the post office their photographies ready to be hung on the walls.
Authors have to take all the customary precautions for a safe travel of their works so that they won’t be damaged.
During the exhibition, the authors will receive by e-mail pictures showing the opening and the exhibition. At the end of the exhibition, the pictures will be returned to their authors at the Town hall of Le Bourget expense.
Memorandum
2007, December 31th: Deadline to send the files to centre.culturel@ville-le-bourget.fr
2008, January 15 – 20: The selected authors are informed by e-mail.
2008, January 15 – February 10th : Reception of the works ready to be hung.
2008, March 4th – April 27th: Exhibition.
2008, May: The works come back to their authors.
Note that there is no entry fee! It’s submission season, but this is the only one I’ve found that I’ve been able to post so far, because all the rest have entry fees. Which is BULLSHIT. Way to go on not trying to screw artists, Andre Malraux Cultural Center of Le Bourget!
This might be the most complete tutorial I’ve come across on developing black and white film with coffee (yes, it really works!). In addition to the recipe, it’s got pictures of every step, including the final results.
Check it out at Photo Utopia!
Rights-grabbing terms for photo submissions from outdoor sport retailer REI:
1. I irrevocably grant to Recreational Equipment, Inc. . . . in perpetuity, for no additional consideration, to use the photographs or pictures . . . an unlimited number of times in any manner REI deems . . . without restriction as to changes or alterations, or reproductions . . . . I also consent to the use of printed matter in conjunction therewith.
and it gets worse from there.
More info at Photo Attorney