through the viewfinder
one day I happened upon my friend johna’s flickr photosteam and noticed these incredible images. beautifully situated inside a curved frame, with some interesting artifacts and weathering, some soft focus around the edges: what are these images? turns out, it is a brilliant method: through the viewfinder photography! take an old press camera (mine is an argoflex 75, bought on eBay for $5), set up your digital camera to shoot through the viewfinder (some build a box, which I haven’t tried yet), and voila! plastic camera interesting images with great ambiance. I love it!
Building a little light box will help with the framing and hopefully holding the focus. I am really excited to try more of this!
(my pops gets pretty excited about camera related experiments. hence, he shot these images of my mom and I heading out on a little kayak adventure)
August 10th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
This is SO cool, I’ve never heard of it, and as it turns out I’m quite interested in photography!! Thanks for sharing this, I’m going to try it!