Tag Archives: retro

Create Digital Wet Plates by Shooting a Photo on Your Computer Monitor

Michael Zhang · Dec 16, 2012 Create Digital Wet Plates by Shooting a Photo on Your Computer Monitor We’ve shared some interesting digital to analog conversions here in the past (e.g. printing iPhone photos using an enlarger), and here’s another one: create a digital wet plate by shooting a photo displayed on your computer monitor. […]

How to build your own $15 8×10″ camera

Cary and the DIY 8×10 Tuesday September 18th, 2012 by Maria Luci Many of you may remember the Legotron. Who could forget it, really? It was a masterpiece in plastic block—a fully functioning 4×5 camera made of LEGO bricks by photographer Cary Norton. Cary’s been at it again, but this time, he left the LEGOs […]

Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s

The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of […]

80’s toys

Nostalgia, Real Life The 80s Christmas gifts that never appeared Josh Wednesday 11:36 am For me, the 80s were spent in a most Spielbergian fashion: middle class split-level home in a rolling suburb. Weekends were spent at the mall and summer nights were spent playing flashlight tag throughout the neighborhood. In the fall, the giant […]