Throw your camera away

February 5th, 2007

light1.jpgOkay, so don’t throw it away, that’d be a pointless waste, really. But you could consider throwing it around a little, and let gravity, inertia and other physics help you with your abstract photography.

The idea is to trip the shutter and then lob your camera through the air. The first couple of times you’ll have adrenaline coming out of your ears, but then the endorfines kick in as you realise what sort of results you are getting.

It all sounds rather dangerous, doesn’t it, but don’t worry too much, there’s a Flickr Pool of camera toss photos that contains over 2,000 photos, and rather few reports of smashed cameras. Read the rest of the article »

In defence of the Holga

February 2nd, 2007

holgathumb.jpgRegular followers of Photocritic know I don’t have a lot of time for the Holga, as illustrated in this post. The response to that post was ear-deafening: The blogosphere (ick I hate that word) went mental at me in the defence of the Holga.

The other day, Robin McAulay tried to be a little bit more eloquent of the Holga. He succeeded, and offers the following guest article… Read the rest of the article »