Photography Announcing: Crown + Flint R3 After months of hard work, I'm happy to announce the latest version of my mobile app for analog photographers, Crown + Flint.
News Announcing the Open Film Database I've started a new project, a natural outgrowth of my work on Crown + Flint. My app relies on a database of technical data on film stocks, a database that I currently maintain myself by hand. I've been in the world of open source software for a
Experiments Featured Introducing the RB67-Pan: Panoramic photos in a medium format camera It's easy to transform a Mamiya RB67 medium format camera into an inexpensive—if extremely bulky—35mm panoramic camera.
Experiments Featured Backlighting Negatives (Pt. 3) If you haven't yet, you might enjoy reading part 1 & part 2 first. I think at this point in my backlighting experiment, we're finally starting to see some really interesting results. For this round, I sought images with maximum contrast in order to simply focus
Equipment Nitpicking Lenses—Comparing the Industar-50 & Canon 50mm f/1.4 Can inexpensive Russian glass hold up to the pinnacle of Japanese rangefinder optics? I take these two lenses for a head-to-head test—and come to some surprising conclusions.
Experiments Featured Backlighting Negatives (Pt. 2) Last week I wrote about a new experiment I'm toying with, colorizing black and white negatives during scanning. Inspired by the aesthetic and technique of classic 80's animated movies (especially "Tron"), I'm riffing on the technique of backlight animation by lighting my
Experiments Featured Backlighting Negatives I enjoy exploring the creation of images that ride a fine line between analog and digital, images that raise questions about how they are made, versus how they are perceived. Isometrica was my first hike along the uncanny valley, but I have several other ideas brewing. One idea that has
Film 5 frames of Shanghai GP3 100 in a Mamiya RB67 Bargain hunting for a Mamiya RB67 in Seoul turned out to be a bigger adventure, and a lot more fun, than I'd anticipated
Equipment 5 Frames with BCG PHC-50 (aka ORWO Tf12d) BCG PHC-50 (aka ORWO Tf12d, aka Film Washi S) is a high-contrast, ultra-low grain black and white film, and it might be my new favorite.
Equipment 5 Frames of (Extremely Expired) Kodak Gold 200 Ever seen film with a lime green base? Let's explore photography with extremely expired, badly stored consumer color film.
