Color Pinhole at the Playground

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Color pinhole photos. I think I really like them. Pinhole photos are traditionally Black and White. Photographers have made pinhole photos with either BW film or BW photo paper for eons. The process is well-documented and is a stalwart of photography student courses. BUT…..while I like BW photos, some subjects really, REALLY deserve color. In the sleepy little town of Apalachicola, Florida, there is a tiny water park and playground that was obviously the brainchild of someone in the past. It’s behind a school and next to a now-closed day school. I found this location by just driving around early […]

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Walk Around, Think – PBWA

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Walk around, look, think. Photos will present themselves, in my experience. This set of photos was just inside an open air stairwell that went down to some sort of exhibition hall at Princeton University in NJ. They were the most mundane of subjects, stairwell lights. The stripes resulting from water raining down and dripping down the stone was lovely. And the lights, with their yellow colors contrasted with the blue-gray color of the light shrouds. There were options as well to include the railings, which provided a nice offset to the lights. PBWA – Photography by Walking Around. IT WORKS!

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Shrimp Boat Marina Pinhole

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Pinhole photos with my favorite Reality-so-Subtle 6×6 at one of my favorite locations, a commercial shrimp boat dock in Apalachicola, FL on the Panhandle area. The sky was lovely on this early morning as the fog lifted. And the super wide angle and almost infinite DOF offered by a pinhole camera .

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Urban Oddities

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I love driving around early on a Sunday morning to hunt for subjects. There isn’t much traffic, and you see the results of the previous week. These photos were from such a morning near to my home in Westfield, NJ. The skeleton was hanging out behind a store, obviously having been used for a Halloween decoration. I loved both the more documentary-type photo as the more close-up version. While these photos are all Olympus EM-1 digital photos, it would probably have been great if I had taken my pinhole camera and got about 3-4” from the skeleton’s face. The other

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Urban Rail Shadows

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Walk around urban scenes and it’s amazing what you can find. Early in the morning gives you more options, as the shadows are longer. These are just a sampling of what you can find from subjects as mundane as stair and railings. I really loved the way the shadows fell on the stairs in these image and you can see how walking around the subjects yields great photos. Nothing special, just observational photography

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Cemetary Pinhole

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Very old cemeteries are beginning to appeal to me more and more. I think you can make lovely photos in cemeteries, but the older ones, with overarching trees, offer lots of photo opportunities. The sterility of modern, giant fields of headstones don’t do it for me. But the very old ones, which can be tough to find, are great. As for technique, my current favorites are pinhole and black-and-white Infrared. These photos are all pinhole taken on a Reality-so-Subtle 6×6 camera with Kentmere100 film. I am increasingly using this film, as it has good tonality, decent reciprocity curves, and a

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Abstract Architecture

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Abstracts, or at lest abstract-oriented photos, are always appealing to photographers who aspire to be artists. Those of us who are incompetent at a physical art form like painting or drawing see photography as a way to find appealing, sensuous images. For me, i have always loved to find lovely images from otherwise mundane objects and scenes. While the allure of the National Park “STAND HERE FOR BEST PHOTO” way of making photos appeals to many, it’s not me. These two images show what you can find if you just look up. They are of the support beams for a

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Color Sprockets – LCA120

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Something new this time, sprocket photos with color film. These were shot on my Lomo LCA120, which is great for sprockets because it has wind-on advance vs back-window frame numbers. These are a mixed bag of photos, but I think that the first one, the greenhouse door, is my favorite. I should back up a little on these photos to move the subject inside the sprockets. The film also, Gold 200, should have been rated at 125 or 160 to overexpose a little. The negatives were a little thing and hightlights bloomed more that I would have liked, especially on

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Half Frame Diptychs

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Half-frame cameras were a “thing” back in the mid 60’s. These cameras shoot vertically-oriented frames that are half of a 35mm frame: 24mm x 18mm. The Japanese market loved these lovely, simple, lightweight, small cameras and they were heavily marketed as a way to save film or as a camera for women. I have a Canon Demi EE17 that has had an overhaul and is in great shape. It sports a wonderful f/1.7 lens and aperture-preferred automation. It does not have a rangefinder, but I’m pretty good at scale focusing. The only problem with half-frame is that it can take

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Red Dumpster Photos and a Revelation

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You walk around a town like Princeton NJ on the way to a somewhat formal architecture photo shoot and come upon a red painted dumpster. Walking around yielded these great images, at least to me. The first reminded me of a flowing red river, the second like some sort of snake-like creature rising out of the mud on an alien world. While going around a normal, red dumpster can really reap photographic benefits if you spend 5-10 minutes. Of course, this assumes you enjoy these sorts of photos and enjoy looking odd. This brings me to another point that nobody

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The Beginning of a Series

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Trash Cans So I’ve thought about this project, but it’s not an easy one. I think that during my travels, I will try to find interesting trash cans to photograph. The first photo is one of my favorites with the wonderful colors and circular symmetry. Most people don’t know what it is until they think a bit and some are disgusted. Some are interested. Some are…..well, just “It’s a trash can”. Yes, they’re right of course.

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Streetscape reflections

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In the dead of winter, a lovely rain with no leaves on the trees can be taken advantage of in an urban environment. This was on New Years Day morning, so the streets and parking lots were empty and had lots of water. The clouds were interesting and the black backgrounds really accentuated the reflections.

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