Petapixel Debut
Today is the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'.
I thought this would be the perfect moment to launch my article in Petapixel on Flickr.
The article was a few months back, and there was a fair amount of negative feedback from those who may have misunderstood the purpose of my camera modifications. The magazine printed my test roll but my vintage camera photography is almost always post-processed. For me the digital negatives from my modified cameras always worked extremely well in post processing to give me a certain otherworldly and sometimes nostalgic look that I search for.
Looking back, I think that those who viewed this article were comparing me directly with Lomography. And the two are entirely different things altogether, thus the disconnection.
Vintage cameras are not toy cameras although they can be made to mimic them at times.
As for my test roll, I could easily have taken razor-sharp photos. I had done this already with other vintages. However, there was some potential beauty arising from the overexposed negatives & blurry focus which purposely had not been adjusted for during shooting. Yet I was not interested so much in beauty as I was looking for any trace of entropy from the various components of the altered camera and lens (certainly some of my fantasy designs** have caused the traditional functional experience of the camera as a whole to be guided almost surreally by its parts, hence deconstructed. Shouldn't serious fantasy camera design be allowed an "atonal" phase perhaps leading into veritable atonality?). Anyway I very much appreciated the opportunity to be on Petapixel, I hope they'll publish my drawings one day which also are not easily categorizable. Like Igor Stravinsky, I should like to view all of my work on Petapixel to be seen one day as a Rite of Spring.
Here is the Link:
petapixel.com/2013/03/27/modding-a-vintage-camera-for-dig...
** Note: I have a future design coming up as a homage to the novelist Marcel Proust, which will employ a Lomography camera. It is a most perfect match to honor Proust with and will definitely be "atonal". I hope that it will also cause much well-documented rioting and controversy in the theatre of the web and vault it's designer closer to being part of the photography pantheon.
Please see my recent Leica A Truro 'cottages, camera for a special dedication to this day.
Petapixel Debut
Today is the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'.
I thought this would be the perfect moment to launch my article in Petapixel on Flickr.
The article was a few months back, and there was a fair amount of negative feedback from those who may have misunderstood the purpose of my camera modifications. The magazine printed my test roll but my vintage camera photography is almost always post-processed. For me the digital negatives from my modified cameras always worked extremely well in post processing to give me a certain otherworldly and sometimes nostalgic look that I search for.
Looking back, I think that those who viewed this article were comparing me directly with Lomography. And the two are entirely different things altogether, thus the disconnection.
Vintage cameras are not toy cameras although they can be made to mimic them at times.
As for my test roll, I could easily have taken razor-sharp photos. I had done this already with other vintages. However, there was some potential beauty arising from the overexposed negatives & blurry focus which purposely had not been adjusted for during shooting. Yet I was not interested so much in beauty as I was looking for any trace of entropy from the various components of the altered camera and lens (certainly some of my fantasy designs** have caused the traditional functional experience of the camera as a whole to be guided almost surreally by its parts, hence deconstructed. Shouldn't serious fantasy camera design be allowed an "atonal" phase perhaps leading into veritable atonality?). Anyway I very much appreciated the opportunity to be on Petapixel, I hope they'll publish my drawings one day which also are not easily categorizable. Like Igor Stravinsky, I should like to view all of my work on Petapixel to be seen one day as a Rite of Spring.
Here is the Link:
petapixel.com/2013/03/27/modding-a-vintage-camera-for-dig...
** Note: I have a future design coming up as a homage to the novelist Marcel Proust, which will employ a Lomography camera. It is a most perfect match to honor Proust with and will definitely be "atonal". I hope that it will also cause much well-documented rioting and controversy in the theatre of the web and vault it's designer closer to being part of the photography pantheon.
Please see my recent Leica A Truro 'cottages, camera for a special dedication to this day.