Plastic Cameras Toying with Creativity
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Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, Second Edition List Price: Sale Price: $18.07 You save: $11.88 (40%)  |
DescriptionTake 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 * Now including the latest and greatest cameras, from the Pinhole Wide Holga, the Stereo Holga, and the all-new Blackbird, Fly *This edition expands on its fabulous lineup of artists by including well-known Christopher James and Michael Kenna*Still the most informative, colorful, and inspiring Plastic Camera guide in existence |
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great book
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
this book has alot of different photographers and has info no the different kinds of cameras hard to put down I loved it.
Excellent resource for the non-digital photographer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
As someone who has been involved with digital photography for over 10 years, I first became curious about ‘plastic’ cameras after seeing an exhibition of the author’s work a few years ago. The images were hauntingly beautiful and I was surprised to find out they were completely un-touched by any digital process. Holgas, one of the models that form the centerpiece of this book, can produce a variety of images depending on how they are set up, or in some cases, not set up.
Michelle’s book is fun to read and offers many tips, tricks and techniques for the amateur and seasoned photographer alike. I disagree with the reviewer who described the images in the book as too ‘artsy fartsy’. I feel they appropriately serve to illustrate the techniques discussed and are a good overview of contemporary artists using ‘plastic’ cameras.
This is a great title for the curious. I’m now inspired to attempt some panoramas and double exposures as described in the book.
Shooting with toy cameras
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book and as an avid pinhole photographer it inspired me to play with some of my Diana Cameras and Diana clones for some new image making. Great photos, good sharing of ideas and an overall enjoyable read. Some good ideas were given for adapting toy cameras. Great image making to you all-Chuck Flagg
Yeah for Toy Cameras!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I got this book to give to my wife along with a Holga for her to play with. She got some really cool shots with hers and this book provided some nice ideas for things to do that we might not have thought of. I thought it was great. Fun book, fun cameras!
A reference and manual.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Michelle Bates has the experience and expertise to give an overall review of the Holga, Diana and others. The book contains an extensive collect of works by major toy camera artists and an explaination of their methods.
There is an interesting history of the Holga and several chapters demonstrating the use and modification of our favorite piece of plastic. Film selection and processing is also discussed.
If you are a Holga or Diana user or are considering purchasing one, then this is the book for you. Read it once, refer to it often, it’s that good.
It’s also well bound and excellently printed.
Well done, Ms. Bates
Could this book be as good as everyone says it is?
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Most books either inspire, through the wonderful work of other photograpers, or are how-tos. This book is both.
However, you must be familiar with cameras that use good old-fashioned FILM to use it. I can’t imagine using the how-to section of this book if you’ve never used anything but a digital camera. On the other hand, there is a little bit of info at the end of the book on computer scanning and pixels that goes right over my head. (I’ll study up on it.)
But here it is: When my cameras were stolen a few years ago, I wasn’t concerned about replacing the Olympus. It devastated me to lose my toy Dories. I bought another for a lot more than $5.
Read Toy Cameras. Buy a toy camera. You’ll never go back to “the real thing” again.
Plastic Cameras
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have been wanting to get this book for ages, now that I have I’m not disappointed. It has lots of images and tips on plastic cameras. It great for picking up when you need that boost to get you creating images again!
Join the fun!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Hey, Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes will sell you their signature model plastic camera, but to be really cool, you need to buy this book and learn exactly what you can do with retro-photography. Digital photography didn’t make Holga and Diana-style photography obsolete — it made it mandatory.
This book will provide you with the ideas you need to get really creative with your camera. And what you learn may spill over into your digital photography work, too.
If you own a Plastic Camera, Get This Book!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
If you own a Holga, Diana, Blackbird Fly or any other plastic camera, this book will really get the juices flowing. Fantastic photography, great tips on use and modification. There is also a section on toy digital cameras.
She goes into great detail on how to set up and use your Holga, discussion on various film type, and a reminder that Holga cameras DO FLOAT, made me laugh.
This book should be included with every plastic camera, if you are buying a plastic camera for someone, they will need this book.
Although I own a very nice DSLR, I also own 3 1/2 Holga’s, a Diana and am looking to purchase a BBF this year.
Great book for Holga users
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this book because I own a couple of toy cameras. I have a Holga that I didn’t use often and I thought the book might have something in it to inspire me to use it more. I found the book excellent for new users of toy cameras. It has all the information that you need to start using a Holga. I also like learning about the origins of the toy cameras. The book is easy to read. The pictures are excellent and it’s also good that the book includes short background information about the photographers. I’ve shown the book to some of my friends and they loved it, too.