Book description
Take a tour of the burgeoning world of plastic cameras and low-tech photography in this fun and funky guide to creating the most artistic pictures of your life! Whether you're an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find this guide full of tantalizing tips, fun facts, and absolutely striking photographs taken with the lowest tech tools around.
You'll learn how to prep your plastic camera, their advantages and quirks, and what film to feed it. You'll also explore what makes a good subject, vignetting, multiple exposures, panoramas, close-ups, night photography, color, flash, problems and solutions, and so much more. Michelle Bates also takes you from a negative to either prints or pixels so that you can show off your photos and jump on the toy-camera revolution!
Contributors include:
Michael Ackerman, Thomas Michael Alleman, Erin Antognoli, Jonathan Bailey , James Balog, Michelle Bates, Phil Bebbington, Gyorgy Beck, Susan Bowen, Laura Corley Burlton, David Burnett, Susan Burnstine, Nancy Burson, Perry Dilbeck, Jill Enfield, fotovitamina, Annette Elizabeth Fournet, Brigitte Grignet, Eric Havelock-Bailie, Christopher James, Michael Kenna, Wesley Kennedy, Teru Kuwayama, Louviere & Vanessa, Mary Ann Lynch, Anne Arden McDonald, Ted Orland, Sylvia Plachy, Dan Price, Becky Ramotowski, Nancy Rexroth, Francisco Mata Rosas, Richard Ross, Franco Salmoiraghi, Rosanna Salonia, Jennifer Shaw, Nancy Siesel, Mark Sink, Kurt Smith, Sandy Sorlien, Pauline St. Denis, Harvey Stein, Gordon Stettinius, Ryan Synovec, Rebecca Tolk, Marydorsey Wanless, Shannon Welles, Matthew Yates, Dan Zamudio
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: What are Plastic Cameras?
- CHAPTER 2: Plastic Portfolios
- CHAPTER 3: That's So Cute!
- CHAPTER 4: Film Options
- CHAPTER 5: Prepping and Shooting Your Holga
- CHAPTER 6: Let's Get Shooting!
- CHAPTER 7: Techy Tips
- CHAPTER 8: Holga Camera Modifications
- CHAPTER 9: Film Handling and Processing
- CHAPTER 10: Prints and Pixels
- CHAPTER 11: Alternative Processes and Presentations
- RESOURCES
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Plastic Cameras, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136089657
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