This is a digital shot I made a coupla’ weeks back using my old Pentax 330GS.
The image was converted to black and white using Photoshop, where I also increased the contrast a bit, and inverted it to make a negative. I then opened the file in Illustrator, scaled it to around 8″ x 10″, then printed the image on acetate using our old Samsung laser printer.
It’s about an 8 minute exposure.
Over the past three weeks I’ve been checkin’ out the #ShittyCameraChallenge tag on Twitter and I’ve noticed that folks are using any old shitty camera they can get their hands on, including ‘vintage’ digital.
I still have my old Pentax Optio 300GS. It’s a tiny compact digital camera I bought in 2003. It’s a whoppin’ 3.2 MP, uses a 128 MB Compact Flash card, and it runs on AA batteries.
It’s not really shitty, but it is old.
It’s not really shitty, but it is old. And after 17 years, the sensor has a handful of dead pixels.
So, yesterday I walked around the house, garage, and backyard shooting whatever caught my eye.
These two shots had a similar feel, seemed meant for each other. A wagon wheel, and leaves from one of the Pride of Barbados plants out back.
Russ Morris. Slightly Obsessed With Photography since 1964. 