My 15 minutes of fame! (okay, 4 minutes to be exact)
Last week I was on Wisconsin Public Radio for an interview about pinhole photography for the Wisconsin Life program.
Quetico Provincial Park
Nazan and I got inspired at Canoecopia last March by a talk on Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario. We vowed to go see it for ourselves this summer. Quetico is a 4,760 square kilometer paradise for anyone who loves to paddle and loves the solitude of wilderness. We plan to make it an annual trip.
There are very few places on earth quite like this. It’s remote, quiet, peaceful, and most of all beautiful. Because it’s designated a wilderness area, there are no roads or motorized boats allowed. You won’t hear anything other than the wind and loons calling. The only people you encounter are other canoe groups, usually from a distance, and only a few times a day.
It was mostly a vacation, but I took along the pinhole camera to do a little shooting too. Here are a few of the photos I finally got around to processing.
This won’t be the last time I photograph Quetico.
Cameron Gillie Photography Version 3.0?
I’ve been working on this idea for a while now, for lack of a better name at this point I’m calling it “The Vintage Image”. They are photographs taken on film using vintage mechanical cameras and the “manipulation” is done physically to the negative, not in photoshop. Some of the techniques include sandwiching tissue paper with the negative, etching with sandpaper and applying shoe polish to name a few. I use expired film and cross process it to give a very saturated and warm feel to the images. Oh, and I use “light painting” in the studio using a flashlight and long exposures.
I want to stick to having a “handmade” organic feel to my photography by using film and the mechanical techniques. I’ll still continue the pinhole photography too, but this is going to be a nice addition to keep things fresh.
Here are a few of the first finished photographs that I will have this weekend at Art Off The Square. Watch for more in the future…
Farmers Market
Tried something new yesterday with a panoramic pinhole camera. Photographing people at the Dane County Farmers Market. A 2 second exposure is kind of interesting with people moving, worth some more experimentation…
Spring Green Award
Got some good news at the Spring Green Art Festival last weekend! The Pinhole Thing won 1st place photography for the second year in a row.
The Chicago Bean
Yeah, I was in Chicago with my pinhole camera. I only had a few hours and it was freezing cold. So what do you shoot? The “Bean” of course. While I was being cliche, I thought I might as well do a selfie too.
It’s kind of cool how nobody shows up in the photos. It was a 4 minute exposure so nobody stands still that long. Except for the dork doing the selfie with a pinhole. I suppose I had people wondering why I was standing there completely motionless for 4 minutes.
You can see my camera in the other two photos and a faint shadow of Nazan and I standing there waiting for the exposure to be over.
