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Toying with Creativity
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By
Michelle Bates, 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 York
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!
Audience
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.)
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
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Paperback, 240 pages, publication date: OCT-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80840-6
ISBN-10: 0-240-80840-1
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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