As you may have noticed The Photo Playground went on six month hiatus. Life happened and new responsibilities were incurred both academically and personally. This next article will focus on an academic responsibility that I took on during the Winter 2010 semester. It is a project that I had wanted to work on for...
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Greetings readers.  I’ve been ultra busy lately and just haven’t had a ton of time to maintain my web life.  I did have a few hours to spare a few weeks ago though.  So, I set up a 1000 markets store.  I only five prints for sale right now and they are reasonably priced. ...
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Yesterday was one of the best camera buying days ever.  I bought 11 cameras of variable quality for $5.77.  I hit up two thrift stores in the area, both of them St. Vincent DePaul Thrift Stores.  The first St. Vinnie’s had a “1/2 off everything in the store” sale.  They had a good number...
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Today was the day, Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.  I’ve been getting geared up for today for a couple weeks.  The weather here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was dreary, damp, and chilly.  The sun rarely poked through thick gray clouds and it rained and drizzled for most of the day.  Definitely not the...
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Some very exciting news, my DIY 35mm pinhole tutorial has been reposted at Four Corners Dark you can view the post here.  If you’re unfamiliar with Four Corners Dark you should go check them out.  They are without a doubt the best toy camera blog ever.  Their new online store, the Four Corners Store...
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Yesterday afternoon I installed my senior exhibit in the Devos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University.  As you may or may not know I am currently an undergraduate photography student drudging through my final semester.  This small body of work is the foundation of my newest series “Recollections.”  My regular readers will recognize a...
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Here is the newest addition to my small arsenal of home made cameras.  This was just a fun, quick Saturday project.  It was inspired by the paper and cardboard pinhole cameras that you see available from time to time.  For the past few months I considered buying one or two of them, but at...
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I found myself at the dollar store this morning, I’m sure you have one in your town as well. It’s the place where everything is $1, everything. I love dollar stores, I rarely buy anything at them, but I love them nonetheless. They are chock full of things that I never knew existed and...
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As I promised yesterday here are some (2) of the pictures that were taken with my Neretta Snap.  The scans are pretty bad, they were done with my CanoScan LiDE 100, which is definitely not a great scanner.  The scans came out too dark, especially on the red shift photo.  The pictures were made...
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Greetings, readers.  I’m posting this entry to ask for some help.  I’m in need of at least 12 medium format or large format lenses.  I would prefer lenses from holgas or dianas because they are cheap and they offer a fairly large image circle.  I would rather not spend a lot of money, but...
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