Tent Camera Obscura

[Pieter]

An interesting take on a portable camera obscura? Or just a gimmick?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-...m_medium=email

[Tin Can]

Bad story, good concept

and now I have an idea for my Ilford Tent Darkroom

[jnantz]

it's no gimmick. he's the real-deal and has been doing these things for decades.

[Tin Can]

Yes, I read story

I didn't like the writer

it's no gimmick. he's the real-deal and has been doing these things for decades.

[Pieter]

it's no gimmick. he's the real-deal and has been doing these things for decades.

The gimmick part I was referring to is the projection onto surfaces to introduce texture.

[jnantz]

The gimmick part I was referring to is the projection onto surfaces to introduce texture.

I don't see it any more of a gimmick than shooting film, or doing alt process or contact printing 8x10.
with photography, seeing it is the ugly stepchild / bastard son of the art world, everything's a gimmick and nothing is.

[John Kasaian]

I thought the idea was pretty cool, but I find Abelardo Morell camera obscura stuff intriguing because it's different, even when it's based on Van Gogh.

[Havoc]

When I look at the last photos in that article, his tent isn't very opaque.