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Author: Michelle Bates
ISBN : 0240814215
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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
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- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 2 edition (October 4, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240814215
- ISBN-13: 978-0240814216
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.1 x 7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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In this second edition of "Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity", Michelle Bates offers a nearly-comprehensive guide to the toy camera craze for beginners and experienced photographers alike. She explains what toy cameras are, why people like them, showcases the work of 49 exceptional photographers, and takes us through what is available and how to use the toy camera, with tips from loading the film to presenting your prints. For young photographers who may not have any familiarity with film cameras, Bates explains how to choose, use, and process film. Since most plastic cameras take 120 film, she offers advice for those unfamiliar with medium format. This is a guide to toy cameras for every kind of photographer.
I largely ignored the Holga and Diana craze of the 1990s, as well as the Lensbaby. Polaroid and pinhole photography satisfied by curiosity for unconventional photographic methods, whenever I wanted a break from my Nikon system. When I saw "Plastic Cameras", I thought it might be a way for me to take in the whole phenomenon and decide if it is something I want to pursue. The book has fulfilled this role admirably. It addresses every aspect of plastic camera photography, provides an inspiring selection of photographs in a wide variety of styles, and, thankfully, shows the reader what is available in the toy camera market today and how those cameras can be accessorized and modified.
Plastic cameras are decidedly low-tech, but they are conveniently inexpensive, lightweight, and they produce unique image characteristics. I was immediately reminded of the Kodak Instamatic I had as a child, which was plastic, had one shutter speed and one aperture, used the square 126 format, but lacked artistic flare. The Holgas and Dianas of today began to appeal to me.
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