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Toy Camera Fun
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So this is about the most fun I had with my toy camera this year-
a little selection from about 200 pictures taken over a 5 minute period, a few days before Christmas.Happy New Year-
j
Hi Joseph,
Does this mean the Fatwa against Toy camera users has been put on hold? :DWere these taken with lens babies by any chance? Seems like a bit of fun alright.
P
Fatwa?
never-Justa lota hot air-
no, not lensbabies.
nothing that would require as much effort as that-
though good guess-Probly no-one else brave enough to name that camera,
but I’ll give it another little while before posting the techie stuff-Just like everything else,
if you’ve seen it before,
its really easy-j
You pierced a body cap with a nail and used it as a pinhole camera. Then, with a piece of cling film added you were able to get the weird warping effects.
Cool. I’d never have thought of it myself.
PeteMcD wrote:
You gotta love photobooth….
;)Thanks for jogging my memory – I knew I’d seen images like this before but just couldn’t think what the application was called (I’m not a Mac user). Yep, these have Photobooth written all over them!
My Sony k800i has a piece of software in it that produces similar results from the 3mp on board camera. I warp all the ID pics that I use for incoming calls..and everyone thinks I have the ugliest bunch of friends ever…. :wink:
Good to see another user of photobooth – I’ve had so many great shots from parties on that thing!!
Tim
EDIT: First Aperture, now Photobooth – wonder what other strange software packages we both use that nobody else seems to!! lol
People will talk!
Tim
Stellarium?
Everyone should have that one-Em, yes.
Maybe too much fun.:lol:
Joseph
Definitely looks as though everyone was having fun. You must have had your work cut out for you; 200 images in a five minute period! I quite like the lighting
and colour and sharpness of the images, though if you look very carefully you may find there is a tiny bit of distortion or warping (That, or the gene pool is in need of a good cleaning!) that may or may not be correctable in Potatoshop. Overall, very impressive collection. I hope you don?t mind, but to show sympathy, I mean solidarity, with other toy camera afficionados here at PI, I?ve taken the liberty of including my edit of the image. I think the greyscale conversion works fairly well though I?m not entirely certain if I?ve added enough ?vinaigrette? as the great Paddyjoe might have put it. Let me know what you think. :lol:But seriously folks. Real Cameras? Toy Cameras? Art? Purism? Pure Fun? Pure Photography? We?ve heard different sides of the argument extolling or excoriating the virtues of plastic lensed cameras which, when you consider that the whole point of photography in the first place is the final image, amount to a whole hill of ether in my opinion. A great image is a great image, regardless of the processes or equipment used to make that image. I still think Eddie Mallin?s ?Guinness Tracks? image is one of the best mono pictures I?ve seen on this site. This has nothing to do with the fact that it was shot using a ?toy camera? and everything to do with Eddie?s unquestionable skill as a photographer. I also would accuse Eddie of being an artist despite his protestations and refuse to withdraw that accusation. The great Stephen Hendry won seven world championships using a cue so bowed that even an amateur player would have only considered it as kindling. As photographers we are interested in methodology, but we shouldn?t be so blinded by it that we lose sight of the only target we have ? a worthy image that needs neither label nor qualification.
I?m all for experimentation. I?ve even devised a cheap and easy way for digital SLR users to experiment with ?toy? photography (Mods, feel free to move this to Tutorials if you think it?s appropriate). Instead of spending ?50 on ebay, convert your ?1000 digital SLR to a Holga by purchasing a 10cm Pyrex rammikin (?1.99 in Tesco), and a roll of black insulating tape (99c in Atlantic Homecare) both for securing the rammikin to your lens and ?vinaigrette?. If your preference is for the diffused and indistinct haze of the Diana, simply roast a fatty duckling breast in the rammikin before use.
Hmm, after reading back over what I had written, I realised that my neanderthal avatar did not really sit well with such polysyllabic meanderings, so I decided to take out my toy laptop and design a new one for myself. Unfortunately this one doesn?t really suit me either so I?m offering it around. A small cash donation or grazing rights in the Botanic Gardens might be considered in exchange.
Very good, Rob.
Though you may have noticed that JB7 has “No” under edit images.
I think it’s pretty bad form to tamper with his art like wot you’ve done.
Thanks for your comments everybody-
Heres another one-Dear Rob, not Pete,
you make me laugh.
Thanks so much for the sympathetic montage, I can see letters in the rebates, but I can’t make out what they are-
However, I do think you are slightly missing the point-First of all I’ve got to point out that these weren’t taken on a proper toy camera-
fixed plastic lens yes,
film, no.I kind of don’t know what to say,
These are just fun family pictures,
and the kids really enjoyed it.They’re not, and are not meant to be taken seriously,
though some of them I really like-they’re just kids having a laugh-
when they’re not out on the playground, that is,
murdering each other with toy Kalashnikovs.j
…I can see letters in the rebates…
This Pete or that Pete? You’ve lost me either way.
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