Phipps


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Title     Phipps
Photographer     sarablackburn/Sara (675) Send mail to this user
Portfolio     Pittsburgh
Category     Pinhole
Format     4x5 sheet
Film     Polaroid 59 Polacolor
Submitted     December 16, 2001 1:52:19 AM CST
Views     1,257
Rating     21 Thumb-up

I took this picture using Will Boyce's pin hole camera when we were in Pittsburgh.

For the amount of work involved in getting a good shot with a pinhole, I think this photo turned out well. You can't really see what you are taking a photo of so you just have to cross your fingers.

The camera was nearly on top of the flower, only 2 inches away.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up Thumb-up    from 22741.v1/ana (10,836) Send mail to this user on February 23, 2003 7:46:46 AM CST (0)

i like the colours

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Thumb-down    from gabriel/Gabriel (199) Send mail to this user on January 2, 2003 4:32:36 AM CST (-1)

I don't mind how did you do the photo. It just isn't at the level of the rest of your work.

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Thumb-up    from denizkaan/Deniz (4,119) Send mail to this user on December 22, 2002 9:02:36 AM CST (-1)

Colours are nice but the exposure is too strong for me. You can try changing the hue to warmer colors, or mixing them regionally. It could look quite interesting then. You can also add sharpening without disturbing the dreamlike bluriness of the image.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from tking/Terry (45) Send mail to this user on September 2, 2002 6:54:53 AM CDT (1)

good composition and exposure for a pinhole.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from grahamdale/Graham (589) Send mail to this user on June 14, 2002 5:38:19 PM CDT (1)

Very freaky picture. Looks like some futuristic arty film noir style! Sort of 12 monkeys-ish!

I like it!

P.S. Pin hole cameras? People still use those?!

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from 7270.v1/Shari (72) Send mail to this user on May 20, 2002 3:43:39 PM CDT (1)

Isadora I like the shot it is very interesting. I like the darkness and hues of the leaves. The light coming in from the top of the greenhouse is very bright and takes away from the actual color of the flower. As i stated in our chat I am not a professional. I do know that the pinhead camera is a difficult one to use, and I couldn't use it. Great work.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up Thumb-up    from 4589.v1/a (114) Send mail to this user on April 30, 2002 11:18:00 PM CDT (1)

I guess math scares some people. little respect for the equipment and the physics that create any image is like telling Michelangelo hey dude why didn't you just paint that stuff on the wall. Technically flawless. Great job, keep up the good work and remember TAKE GOOD NOTES!!

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Thumb-down    from langy/Paul (603) Send mail to this user on January 30, 2002 11:56:59 AM CST (1)

Sorry but the colours and exposure look awfull. We should by rights judge the image and not what equipemnt was used. I am sure pin hole cameras can be very difficult to use but people do get shots with impact that are as good or even better than large format.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from jsm/j (1,192) Send mail to this user on January 22, 2002 9:12:01 AM CST (2)

I read your message in the forum, i saw your portfolio sometimes, some photos incite immediatly to critique them, your photos are very nice, so they need more time i think. Well anyway this picture i find very very nice, the colours, the "atmosphere". Maybe one thing, dont see it as negative, i was only wandering whether it would be nicer to make the flower come out just a little more, because i think that here it drowns a little bit in the background.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from 338.v1/Eric (99) Send mail to this user on January 17, 2002 9:27:04 AM CST (1)

Wow, it must've been satisfying to get such an interesting photo from a primitive camera. I found the image a little disturbing but I can appreciate the difficulty after reading what it took to get the photo. :)

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Thumb-up Thumb-up Thumb-up    from deyan/Deyan (5,340) Send mail to this user on December 18, 2001 11:14:58 AM CST (3)

Wow, cool one  I'm monitoring your works and now I must say something. Is very strange and interesting approach U have. I like different point of view :) These photos have a strange influence how more I look in it. Trying to define what is in behind, is like is changing over and over again. Color is not a photographic and this is the best part U can see picture more and more as more u spend time and look in it:) Wow now I'm learning what the pine hole is, and I'm like children of technology must say brilliant. I’m to addicted to electronically conform from first ZENIT to Canon and now Olympus camedia, but I’ must try something like this in a future :) Is just a peace of art :) After that I must give this photo a one more point :) Only thing what is problem to enplane why I like this one is my rusty English,

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Thumb-up Thumb-up Thumb-up    from richs2k1/Richard (895) Send mail to this user on January 7, 2002 9:53:29 PM CST (1)

I really like this photo. The few pinhole shots that are on here are amazing. I don't know much about pinhole photography but it sounds to be quite inexact and difficult. To get a great shot must be quite a task.

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