Sunlit Pine, photo by MSU Ben.
Ben says that this is one of the first shots he took with his Ansco folding 6×6 camera. It’s one of the photos in his Best Shots set. He’s in the Michigan State Photo Club and yes, they have a Flickr group.
Mark O’Brien has a nice ansco camera page and you can see a bunch of photos of Afga/Ansco cameras from the Camera Museum (Camera Museum main page).
2006.10.15 – stony creek – barny holga, photo by ercy
ercy relates that this is a cross-processed holga; scanned print with no post processing. She also says that she just loves holgas for their dreaminess and vivid color. I think you will just love her holga*land set (slideshow).
We’ve seen a number of Holga images on Michigan in Pictures, but I realize that everyone may not know just what a Holga is. Wikipedia’s entry on the Holga camera says:
The Holga is an inexpensive, medium format 120 film toy camera, originating in China, that later came to be appreciated for its low-fidelity aesthetic. The Holga’s cheap construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions.
If that’s making you yawn, try the Holga pages at lomography.com, where they present the history and ethic of the camera in much more exciting, detailed and illustrated fashion and explain:
The lack of options with the Holga makes it an unpredictable and very exciting camera to use. You will find yourself asking whether a shot is in focus, or correctly exposed, or whether you remembered to wind the film forward or even take the lens cap off. More importantly, you will question whether you even care! After you use the Holga for a while – if you don’t give up on it – you will become used to how it works and even adapt to how it sees, but you will never fully understand it.
You may also be interested in the Holga FAQ, Squarefrog Holga and the Holga gallery at holga.net (all three of these have Holga purchasing info).
Untitled, photo by jenny murray.
Jenny says that this photo was taken using a yellow filter (an actual one, not Photoshop).
I say that I apologize on the behalf of Charter for the lateness of today’s post. My office is quite tidy after the 8 hour outage though!
No word on what the pilot says.
Ken Rockwell has some interesting things to say about the use of filters, yellow and otherwise. Here’s a little excerpt:
The more you learn about photography the more you’ll also learn that artificial filters and manipulation are required to make a natural looking image. Ansel Adams realized that human perception and the photographic processes are quite different. Therefore one needs to use a lot of filtration, manipulation and burning and dodging to compensate for the human eye and brain’s image processing to create an image on paper that looks natural. (You can read this in his books.) This is why most snapshots don’t look like the original scene. Artificial processes and image manipulation are needed to make a photograph look natural.
Armchair photographers like to play a stupid game that prohibits anything creative and requires they just play forensic photographers blindly Xeroxing nature without filters. I only judge people on the final image, not the process.
Something to consider for sure.
two lights, photo by The Real Ferg.
Ferg writes the moon and a flashlight, having some fun with lightpainting. no editing at all. This photo is part of a cool set of night shots (slideshow).
Wikipedia has something to say about light painting. Flickr’s lightpainting tag has some cool examples as well.
Ross writes:
Theater marquee on the main street of Clare, Michigan.
I’m really falling in love with my Autocord TLR again.Too bad about that lens flare (as an old SLR guy, this always trips me up). Still, the amount of detail in the original 6×6 Provia transparency just tickles me to pieces. In the jumbo size note the sign-maker’s badge, “Artkraft Lima Ohio.”
That Autocord link is my addition (autocord slideshow).
Art Museum, photo by I am Jacques Strappe.
Over at the Ann Arbor Area Crappy Camera Club, Matt Callow posted an announcement from ArtServe Michigan. They are seeking:
…quality photographs that capture and document arts and culture in Michigan: the buildings where arts and culture takes place, artists at work in their studios or participating in festivals, community arts projects, arts and cultural activities indoors and out, arts educators in their classrooms, individuals of all ages engaged in arts and cultural activities, art festivals, audience moments, performance pieces, etc.
They hope to gather photographs from every county of the state to be included in a photo montage during the ceremony of the 2007 Governor’s Awards for Arts and Culture and for use in the event program. Photographs are due by September 14, 2007. Please click through for details on format and where to send the photos!
Marjorie says that this photo (which I think you should check out big) of the University of Michigan Museum of Art was taken during the Ann Arbor (likely in 2004) and that the kids of Ann Arbor are missing a slide as the sculpture has been dismantled. It was taken with a Holga, one of the many fine toy cameras, trash cams, cheap plastic point-and-shoots, pinholes, dollar store disposables, and junk store cameras wielded by the Crappy Camerians. Heck, they even discussed the merits of a Pop Tart Camera!
ArtServe Michigan is a statewide organization that builds support for the arts, artists, arts education, and cultural activities. They champion the arts across the state through advocacy and education programming and services to individual artists and cultural organizations and seek to support artists and arts organizations by increasing cultural audiences, linking businesses and the arts, and standing up for arts in education and state arts funding.
Watermelon umbrella, photo by caterpillars.
Who doesn’t want the Lomographic Society International’s Queen of All Multi-Lensed Cameras, the Supersampler?
_DSC0179_8x8_toned, photo by kcephoto.
Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition is looking for stories (500 words or less) and photos about people and the lakes that fill folks with laughter, sadness, nostalgia, or wonder, and maybe even inspire us to think about the Great Lakes in a new way.
The story categories are Fishing, Camping and General and there’s also a photo category. In addition to grand prizes with two outdoor adventure packages (kayak, tent and sleeping bag and two photography packages including a digital camera) there will be monthly prizes (backpacks, fishing gear, digital cameras) for children, high school student and adult age groups.
The contest runs through August 20, and you can get all the details and view some of the submissions at healthylakes.org.
Field of Dreams, photo by tenfrozentoes.
One of the first photos with a new lens (Canon 10-20 mm) … not a bad beginning.
I also have to note that Saline seems to be a good place to take photos of trees and fields.
RenCen, photo by DetroitBikeBlog.
DetroitBikeBlog says: This weekend I pulled my broken old Sony Camera apart and then carefully put it back together again. Amazingly this cured the C13 fault that’s had it on a shelf for 2 years. So I went out to today to try a few shots with its toy-camera fisheye! This is the east aspect of the RenCen, I’ve always been taken by the colors along here.
Gotta see it bigger … or on black … or bigger on black. ;)
