I got 2 of my polaroids published in my school art paper, Pathos Literary Magazine. Not the first time I’ve had work in it, the last 3 issues actually but the first time they used Polaroids.
They used these two:

slab blaster

More photos from the swap!

fun to plan and achieve!

Pretty simple process, take a photo underexposed, then take another one, with the subject placed where you left space in the first shot. In this photo I probably left the camera on the little sunny picture, since it was shady, to underexpose. more o these to come. fun!

I had to mention these awesome things I saw yesterday. Enjoy!

I shoot people for a living. $17 US

Camera ring $10

can you resist?! I can but that doesnt mean I dont want them. I might get the ring.. geh retail torture!

I went to Slab City for a week and just got back. Im still in shock and seriously considering living there. I took about 15 rolls of film if you count the half rolls still in my camera. They are ALL black and white, the only color I got was digital or Polaroid. I regretted that decision at times but I think itll be ok. I mostly used my nicer cameras, some holga and some brownie bullet - I sent the brownie ones off to where they came back with wacky sky from so I hope I get the same effect. Maybe its their chemicals?

I’ve also sent off almost all my film swap rolls and im mostly done with a lomo roll.. but Im starting to wonder if I want to cross process it myself or send it off. Ill feel like a jerk if I dont swap it, since I wont have anything in california for the girl.. and I guess theyre all underexposed so.. bleh.. ill send it. I AM going back and I will get more photos. We were lucky enough to have tour guides the whole time, an advantage of being a girl I guess.

Ill post again on the subject of Slabs when I have more photos!
Plus I might write more about the place itself.

The Photographer:
“For the final assignment for my film photography class.

Concept:

This is the antithesis of the Ansel Adams type, quintessential landscape photo.

Instead of being perfect and crisp and accurate… instead of using extremely precise exposure with well-defined accuracy using the zone system and other techniques… this photo is everything that those things are not.

This photograph was shot on 35mm in a 120N Holga. However, while that type of photography yields imperfections and “happy accidents”, there is still an amount of precision and technique that goes into shooting this way. Because, of course, while you’re playing a sort of guessing game, you certainly can’t just go into it blindly - it won’t work that way. You have to make extremely educated decisions on exposure, perhaps moreso than you do with the zone system and such techniques, because you are, in essence, shooting in the dark.

This is something that I have been working on a lot during the past month or so - and I feel it is developing into somewhat of a personal language. This lo-fi, imperfect, accidental experimentation with photography is wonderful - I have fallen very much in love with it. I gave up my other idea - to revisit the self-portrait - for this. Alternative landscape, at its best. :o)

Process (thought I would add this in case anyone was curious):

35mm Kodak 125PX black and white film in a 120N Holga. It’s really easy, and doesn’t really require any extra manipulation to the Holga…. you just have to tape up the window really well, using a few pieces of cardboard and loads of tape. Tape alone will not work - you’ll get light leaks.

You should wind about 28-30 clicks between frames - you can do less or more depending. It will yield you about 16 shots. Once you’re done with the roll, you have to leave it in the Holga and take it out in a darkroom. In the darkroom, you can unwind it from the spool that was in the Holga and wind it back into the cannister, and then process it yourself, or take it somewhere.

To print this, you need a glass plate in the enlarger, in place of a negative carrier. Using a negative carrier won’t show the sprocket holes. When you print it, it will always be just a little shorter than your paper, if you print for the entire length.

For these images, I printed on glossy fiber paper, and then sepia toned them. You need bleach and sepia toner to do this. This also brings out the numbers, I found. In black and white, it was somewhat difficult to see the numbers. ”

Brownie Bullets are mysterious as hell, Sometimes they take photos as clear as any slr and sometimes they abstract them like a pinhole or painting. I paid $5 for it at an antique store in the middle of nowhere. You can get one on ebay!

I wana leica

im working my ass to death today, I have a book (Double Indemnity) and 100 pages of photography history to read today, not to mention paid work as well. Lets hope I just get so far ahead in classes that I pass them all tomorrow and get it over with.

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