Reflecting the Bright Lights: Preserving 19th Century Photo Techniques

Reflecting the Bright Lights: Capturing a Moment with Silver Nitrate from London Sessions Productions on Vimeo.

In "Reflecting the Bright Lights," Walter Hugo demonstrates how he meticulously exposes, processes, and develops silver nitrate portraits on glass plates. He uses a room-sized camera, too! What a fabulous way to preserve

Also, the video is set to this song, which I adore.

Via It's Nice That

Freelensing: Who needs an attached lens anyway?

To take photographs using the Freelensing technique, remove the lens from the body of the camera and manually move it around to focus. See this how to example from Luke Roberts:



Gizmodo has a great gallery of photos taken with this technique. They end up somewhat blurry and surreal-ly dreamlike. See the below example by photographer Ian Doss:




*If you have a live view option on your camera, you can control this much tighter.* - Jeff