Plastic Cameras
Toying with Creativity
- 1st Edition - October 11, 2006
- Latest edition
- Author: Michelle Bates
- Language: English
Take a tour of the burgeoning world of toy cameras and low-tech photography with Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity. Whether you’re an experienced enthusiast or toy camera… Read more
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Description
Description
Take a tour of the burgeoning world of toy cameras and low-tech photography with Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity. Whether you’re an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you’ll find Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity chock full of tantalizing tips, fun facts and, of course, absolutely striking photographs taken with the lowest tech and simplest tools around.
I got me a Holga. Now What?
Holgas need a little TLC before they’re ready to go out in the world and start snapping. Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity digs through all the different Holga models available, lays out thier advantages and quirks and helps you get up to speed on all the prep you’ll need to do to jump in on the toy-camera revolution.
What should I Feed my Holga?
Holgas, Dianas, other toy cameras can use many types of film. Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, lays all their pros and cons on the line letting you get some images you want, and some you could just never imagine.
Can Holga come out to play?
Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity will help you steer your way through all the details and quirks of taking wonderful and weird pictures with your toy camera. We’ll explore possible subjects and the best way to shoot them and play with all sorts of techniques from vignetting, to multiple exposures, to panoramas, close-ups, movement, night photography, flare, flash, color and more.
For the Intrepid Holga-ographer
For the Holga master, we’ve diagramed and described advanced toy camera modifications and introduce you to a variety of problems, solutions and inventions born from toy cameras’ “limitations.”
What Next?
From negatives to prints or pixels, we help you navigate your post-shooting choices.
Don’t Forget
The Diana, Banner, Action Sampler, Photo Blaster, and Lensbaby are all toy cameras with their own loveable qualities. We’ll look beyond the Holga to show a whole wide world of toys.
Artists Artists in this book include:
Michael Ackerman
Jonathan Bailey
Eric Havelock-Baillie
James Balog
Betsy Bell
Susan Bowen
Laura Burlton
David Burnett
Nancy Burson
Perry Dilbeck
Jill Enfield
Annette Fournet
Megan Green
Wesley Kennedy
Teru Kuwayama
Mary Ann Lynch
Anne Arden McDonald
Daniel Miller
Ted Orland
Robert Owen
Becky Ramotowski
Nancy Rexroth
Francisco Mata Rosas
Richard Ross
Franco Salmoiraghi
Michael Sherwin
Harvey Stein
Gordon Stettinius
Mark Sink
Kurt Smith
Sandy Sorlien
Pauline St. Denis
;-p r a b u!
I got me a Holga. Now What?
Holgas need a little TLC before they’re ready to go out in the world and start snapping. Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity digs through all the different Holga models available, lays out thier advantages and quirks and helps you get up to speed on all the prep you’ll need to do to jump in on the toy-camera revolution.
What should I Feed my Holga?
Holgas, Dianas, other toy cameras can use many types of film. Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, lays all their pros and cons on the line letting you get some images you want, and some you could just never imagine.
Can Holga come out to play?
Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity will help you steer your way through all the details and quirks of taking wonderful and weird pictures with your toy camera. We’ll explore possible subjects and the best way to shoot them and play with all sorts of techniques from vignetting, to multiple exposures, to panoramas, close-ups, movement, night photography, flare, flash, color and more.
For the Intrepid Holga-ographer
For the Holga master, we’ve diagramed and described advanced toy camera modifications and introduce you to a variety of problems, solutions and inventions born from toy cameras’ “limitations.”
What Next?
From negatives to prints or pixels, we help you navigate your post-shooting choices.
Don’t Forget
The Diana, Banner, Action Sampler, Photo Blaster, and Lensbaby are all toy cameras with their own loveable qualities. We’ll look beyond the Holga to show a whole wide world of toys.
Artists Artists in this book include:
Michael Ackerman
Jonathan Bailey
Eric Havelock-Baillie
James Balog
Betsy Bell
Susan Bowen
Laura Burlton
David Burnett
Nancy Burson
Perry Dilbeck
Jill Enfield
Annette Fournet
Megan Green
Wesley Kennedy
Teru Kuwayama
Mary Ann Lynch
Anne Arden McDonald
Daniel Miller
Ted Orland
Robert Owen
Becky Ramotowski
Nancy Rexroth
Francisco Mata Rosas
Richard Ross
Franco Salmoiraghi
Michael Sherwin
Harvey Stein
Gordon Stettinius
Mark Sink
Kurt Smith
Sandy Sorlien
Pauline St. Denis
;-p r a b u!
Key features
Key features
*The first toy camera guide written by the internationally known "Holga Queen"
*Full color, fabulous images illustrate what can be done with toys, for fun or professionally
*Step-by-step examples clearly explain how techniques are achieved
*Full color, fabulous images illustrate what can be done with toys, for fun or professionally
*Step-by-step examples clearly explain how techniques are achieved
Readership
Readership
Camera enthusiasts, students, and professionals. Toy camera photographers are truly all types of photographers! Everyone from the student to the professional fashion photographer can create stunning images with toy cameras. The biggest buyer of Holga cameras are students, mainly due to the accessible price. (Holgas are the number one selling toy camera.)
Table of contents
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: What are Plastic Cameras?
An introduction to the history of plastic cameras and why they are so popular.
Chapter 2: Plastic Portfolios
Selections of images from 23 of the most influential and talented photographers using plastic cameras, from the 1960s to today.
Chapter 3: That’s So Cute! The Cameras.
A survey of the plastic cameras, including Holga, Diana (and clones), Action Sampler, Lomo, Fujipet, Lensbaby, Rollei MiniDigi and More.
Chapter 4: I Got Me a Toy Camera—Now What?
Getting your Holga ready to shoot
Chapter 5: Feeding Your Holga
Film options for Holgas and other low-tech cameras
Chapter 6: Let’s Get Shooting!
Holga operation basics: Loading, unloading, and how not to ruin your film
Chapter 7: Taking Your Holga Out to Play
Learn to love your plastic camera’s quirks and make artful images
Chapter 8: Advanced Tips
Filters, fancy films and flash.
Chapter 9: Holga Camera Modifications
Fussing with your Holga
Chapter 10: Film Processing
Processing, handling, and storage of exposed film
Chapter 11: The Final Image: Prints and Pixels
Darkroom, digital, and display
Resources
A comprehensive list of plastic camera web sites, publications, and suppliers.
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1: What are Plastic Cameras?
An introduction to the history of plastic cameras and why they are so popular.
Chapter 2: Plastic Portfolios
Selections of images from 23 of the most influential and talented photographers using plastic cameras, from the 1960s to today.
Chapter 3: That’s So Cute! The Cameras.
A survey of the plastic cameras, including Holga, Diana (and clones), Action Sampler, Lomo, Fujipet, Lensbaby, Rollei MiniDigi and More.
Chapter 4: I Got Me a Toy Camera—Now What?
Getting your Holga ready to shoot
Chapter 5: Feeding Your Holga
Film options for Holgas and other low-tech cameras
Chapter 6: Let’s Get Shooting!
Holga operation basics: Loading, unloading, and how not to ruin your film
Chapter 7: Taking Your Holga Out to Play
Learn to love your plastic camera’s quirks and make artful images
Chapter 8: Advanced Tips
Filters, fancy films and flash.
Chapter 9: Holga Camera Modifications
Fussing with your Holga
Chapter 10: Film Processing
Processing, handling, and storage of exposed film
Chapter 11: The Final Image: Prints and Pixels
Darkroom, digital, and display
Resources
A comprehensive list of plastic camera web sites, publications, and suppliers.
Index
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 11, 2006
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
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Michelle Bates
Michelle Bates has been playing with Holgas since 1991. Since then, she has used these plastic cameras for everything from fine-art to editorial to commercial photography. Her work has won several awards and been published on numerous web magazines, included in toy cameras exhibitions worldwide, and printed in many magazines. She has had solo shows in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and Israel.
Bates has been teaching toy camera workshops since 1998, and currently teaches at the Photographic Center Northwest, the Julia Dean Workshops in Los Angeles, and at the International Center of Photography in New York. She also guest lectures nationwide, and was a featured speaker at the Society for Photographic Education's NW regional conference in 2005.
Currently, Michelle Bates is a member of the Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals of Freestyle Photographic Supply.
With her history of creating toy camera imagery and activity in the national and international toy camera communities for well over a decade, Michelle Bates is a well-known and respected name in the field.
Affiliations and expertise
Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals of Freestyle Photographic Supply, Photographic Center Northwest, Coupeville Arts Center, Cascades Academy of Photography, guest lecturer at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and ICP in New YorkView book on ScienceDirect
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