Kodak gold 200, Holga. Cross-processed at home using a Koday E-6 Kit

yes its been pretty quiet around here for a while.

there are a couple of posts that I have planned to work on for a while now and hope to soon stop procrastinating and get to it!
To start the ball rolling, today i finally got round to updating the wordpress software that the site runs on. It doesn’t change much but hopefully helps keep the site stable and happy. It also gets my head back into the frame of mind to work on these pages and keep everything up to date.

to get a flavour of what I have been working on you can take a look at my flickr page.

I now have a flatbed scanner (with transparency hood) and have been busy wading through folders of negatives and slides and working on images that I haven’t even looked at for years(well…some of them).
so no more slides photographed on a light box will be appearing on my photostream, Just juicy scans!

Basically I have been spending plenty of time in front of the computer editing images, but it means I have been able to produce prints of some of my colour negs for the first time in about a year thanks to trumps and their durst epsilon printer.

but most importantly, I am also itching to get back into gum printing again and will be posting progress when that happens.

watch this space
pete

Edinburgh meadows with Aurthers Seat in background

This is a very cool research project, its a massive array of 128 ccd video cameras that work together to capture a scene in 3D to be process by a computer.

Just the ticket for “matrix” style panning effects, high-res and high speed capture (with a bit of wobble) but my favorite bit is “synthetic aperture photography”.

as the site puts it:

the cameras are arranged 2 inches apart and aimed so that their fields of view overlap completely about 10 feet from the array. This arrangement simulates a single camera with an aperture 3 feet wide, allowing us to see through partly occluding environments like foliage and crowds.

There is a link to a 5 minute video near the bottom of the page that shows what the array is capable of. You can see the different 3D effects as well as how they can view “through” obstacles!
Also the Flash-based light field viewer is well worth a play too.

While Im mentioning a Stanford site, its worth noting that http://pinhole.stanford.edu/ is an interesting general resource for pinhole stuff, including dimensions for building a Foamcore 5×4 camera.