No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
~Edward Steichen
The original intent of this assignment, as I understood it, was to force us to work with simple equipment and concentrate on the image instead of the process. Plastic disposable camera, how much more simple can you get? I tried to stick to the intent. I bought a $6 Kodak. To take it a little further, I decided to see what I could shoot without leaving the downtown Sarasota high rise where I live. Then I took the film to Walgreen’s for processing.
But we just can’t leave it at that, can we? Making the final image is as much a part of the process as shooting the film, and I couldn’t leave that to the cute 17 yr old girl running the printing machine at Walgreen’s, could I? So I scanned the negs, and ran them through a quick Photoshop edit. Just to adjust contrast, color balance, sharpen them up a little bit, and just a touch of dodging and burning. Okay, I couldn’t help myself. Shoot me.
At least I used the plastic camera. Marc.
Here’s what I came up with.
I’m using a FED-3… isn’t that worse than plastic?
I like it. I’m not sure exactly what it is… some concrete drain I would guess, though I’m having a hard time gauging the dimensions. In any event, like I said, I like it. No matter where I look in the image, my eyes keep being drawn down the tunnelish drain (which, come to think of it looks kind of like a big eye).