Shooting with a vintage camera: part 1
Hester St., Nyc.
Digitized Vintage 1916 Kodak Autographic Special 3A
Anagstimat F6.3
Now that you've seen my modification process set. I am uploading 50 or so photos, almost all unprocessed, straight out of the camera chip. I am using a square format for all of the photos.
Shooting with a vintage camera: part 1
With my modified vintage camera, I feel that at times I can create a feeling of presque-vu with my photographs. I don't feel that my images with the vintage cameras are mainly about composition, or graphic design or drama or the high contrast b&w that I enjoy. The scene that I am trying to capture is familiar, nostalgic, yet unrecognizable to me, and therefore a new reality is created for me. This could also be a feeling of jamais-vu. Sometimes, I feel both conditions may be true. Since the only idyllic Asian "town" for me is the one basically in my mind, a fusion of places I've been drawn to, I'm content to follow my camera as it botanizes what is before my eyes. With my regular workhorse Ricoh cameras, I can attain this feeling in some images after quite a bit of post-processing, but with these modified cameras, I can get it unprocessed, and in color. That is one damn good reason to go out with the thing I've put together and just shoot and forget everything else.
Shooting with a vintage camera: part 1
Hester St., Nyc.
Digitized Vintage 1916 Kodak Autographic Special 3A
Anagstimat F6.3
Now that you've seen my modification process set. I am uploading 50 or so photos, almost all unprocessed, straight out of the camera chip. I am using a square format for all of the photos.
Shooting with a vintage camera: part 1
With my modified vintage camera, I feel that at times I can create a feeling of presque-vu with my photographs. I don't feel that my images with the vintage cameras are mainly about composition, or graphic design or drama or the high contrast b&w that I enjoy. The scene that I am trying to capture is familiar, nostalgic, yet unrecognizable to me, and therefore a new reality is created for me. This could also be a feeling of jamais-vu. Sometimes, I feel both conditions may be true. Since the only idyllic Asian "town" for me is the one basically in my mind, a fusion of places I've been drawn to, I'm content to follow my camera as it botanizes what is before my eyes. With my regular workhorse Ricoh cameras, I can attain this feeling in some images after quite a bit of post-processing, but with these modified cameras, I can get it unprocessed, and in color. That is one damn good reason to go out with the thing I've put together and just shoot and forget everything else.