Holgaroid

Holgaroid

On our recent snow adventures, while I was firing away on the Mark 2, James was using a Holgaroid camera and some of his images are just too beautiful to not share. A Holga is a plastic, piece of crap medium format camera with a fixed plastic lens. The images it makes have a beautiful soft focus and a weird dreamy quality that's very unique. Polaroid instant film has its own weird and idiosyncratic qualities so put a Polaroid back onto a Holga camera and you have a very Frankensteinish analog image making tool. The film he had was also expired which adds another interesting variable to the mix. Enjoy.

Thanks, James, for letting me post these. Gorgeous stuff. 

Here's another analog experiment we did a few years ago - a short film shot digitally through a medium format portrait camera.

The Model Maker (Director: James Buckley, DP: Ben Cain)

The Model Maker from Ben Cain / Negative Spaces on Vimeo.

Focus going RAW?

Focus going RAW?

Interesting new developing technology from Adobe. It uses a layer of tiny plenoptic lenses in-between the sensor and the primary lens to capture the full range of focused picture information across the entire depth of the scene. You can then manage and re-focus the image in post software like Photoshop or Lightroom just like any other aspect of the Raw image. Sounds pretty incredible and slightly far fetched but who knows. Have a look. 

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/09/adobes_plenoptic_lens_tech_says_goodbye_to_blurry_pictures.html

The Plastic Bullet

The Plastic Bullet

This Red Giant App for the iPhone is a lot of fun. Hipstamatic is cool as well but I like that you can take your existing photos into Plastic Bullet and just see what happens to them. The random effects the app applies are often very beautiful and I have yet to see it produce the same results twice. I've got to say, in this day and age of immaculate digital images, I really love the crappy lens on the iPhone. It just has its own unique quality that I'll be sad to see go as the little camera phone inevitably becomes a real point and shoot. 

Here are a few of my favs:

On an iPhone related note, I'm not sure Key Light is entirely iPhone 4 compliant so that's on the to-do list. I'm moving this week and have family in town so signing off for awhile. Have a great holiday weekend.