I spotted Extreme Ironing on Memepool. Anyone got a picture of themself using their LF camera in an extreme place? This ironing shot from Chamonix will take some beat ing though...
I spotted Extreme Ironing on Memepool. Anyone got a picture of themself using their LF camera in an extreme place? This ironing shot from Chamonix will take some beat ing though...
This is really stupid!
HA!!!! that's awesome. just when you thought all possible sports have been invented...
well in the vein of extreme large format, i've always had an idea of the largest-possible-format camera: an 8x10 FOOT camera. the box would be the trailer of a semi, with a tennis-ball-sized pinhole on the back door. the film would be mounted on the trailer's front wall. so you'd back that sucker up to the edge of the grand canyon, turn off the engine, open the "aperture" and wait an hour or so, then go tank the neg in a couple of kiddie swimming pools full of developing chemicals at night in a warehouse, hang it on a clothesline to dry, and viola, the biggest negative ever made. then you could flatbed scan it in sections and digitally lace them all together, and res the image down to a 160 x 120 pixel JPEG for the web...
~cj
Chris;
You have no idea what you have unleashed.
A year from now there will be threads about Bokeh from tennis-ball size apertures and trailer-back negs and what developer is used, not to mention X File episodes about srange sightings in warehouses by projected light.
Thankks!!!
I'm fairly sure I've seen an article in an old edition of View Camera about some guy who turns hotel rooms into pinhole cameras (close and lightproof the curtains, ditto doors, make small hole in lightproofing). Now the resulting image is very dimly displayed all over the walls and furniture of the room. He'd like a wider audience so he takes long exposure shots of the room from somewhere near the pinhole. Its a neat effect.
Can anyone confirm that I didn't imagine this?
c
AHHHHH, the wonders of photoshop...
You didn't imagine it. I don't think he uses Photoshop, he was doing this long before Photoshop was created. He's well known in fine art circles and teaches at a college in Boston. Of course as soon as you asked I immediately drew a blank on hisI name. Abelardo Somebody.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
The person you are thinking of is Abe Morrell ( forgive me if I have misspelled his name). He is a Boston based artist who is well known for turning rooms into camera obscuras and making a lens photo of the projected image. Regarding the extreme camera: My partners and I have a 8x8x8 foot portable camera obscura that we set up at festivals and schools. we don't take pictures with it (we haven't yet anyway) but we do take lens photographs of the projected images. Its a blast.
Along these lines, Ron Wisner has some very nice shots taken with his 8X10 from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge in SF:
http://wisner.com/golden.htm
Somehow, though, they lack the panache of the Chamonix ironing shot. Nathan
Chris:
Why monkey around with kiddie pools when you could use a cement truck as a kind of Jobo unit?
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