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  • Short Film: Kinabatangan

    I’ve been talking a lot about photography and vintage cameras on this blog, but originally this was all about video editing and production.  This is the first “real” video I’ve done in some time – a short documentary film as opposed to some hastily thrown together clips.  It’s based on our trip to the Malaysian…

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  • Found Film Friday: An Airman in Syracuse

    It’s “Found Film Friday” again! When I share a roll of film that has been found and rescued from oblivion. No one has seen these photos before – not the people who took them, not the people on them. And now you get to see them… Before I go into this week’s roll, I wonder…

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  • A Story Behind Every Picture

    They say every picture is worth 1,000 words.   In the best case, a good picture tells a story.  Sometimes the picture itself is the story.  This is one of the cool things about photography. Take the photo below, for instance.  Not a very good picture – out of focus, not well-framed, and the subject…

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  • Accidental Cross-Process

    There’s this whole experimental back-to-film movement where people are doing things to get weird and unexpected effects.  Like using Lomography “purple” film, reversing the way your film faces to get “redscale” pictures, and “cross processing.”  Cross processing is either processing your color negative film in chemicals for slides, or the other way around.  Generally, processing…

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  • Found Film Friday: Clyde, Texas

    In my continuing, admittedly odd, quest to rescue other peoples’ forgotten, undeveloped film from oblivion, I recently acquired a Kodak Brownie Starflash, advertised on eBay as still containing a roll of unprocessed film inside.  I received the camera, still in its original box. It was manufactured between 1957 and 1965. You get a lot of…

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