Chapter 1: What are Plastic Cameras? Chapter 2: Plastic Portfolios Chapter 3: That's So Cute! The Cameras Chapter 4: Film Options Chapter 5: Prepping and Shooting Your Holga Chapter 6: Let's Get Shooting! Chapter 7: Techy Tips Chapter 8: Holga Camera Modifications Chapter 9: Film Handling and Processing Chapter 10: Prints and Pixels Chapter 11: Alternative Processes and Presentations Resources Index.
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What are plastic cameras?: an introduction to the history of plastic cameras-- Plastic portfolios: 30 portfolios of images from some of the most influential and talented photographers using plastic cameras, from the 1960s to today -- That's so cute!: a survey of plastic cameras from 1960s to today -- Film options: film options for all your low-tech cameras -- Prepping and shooting your Holga: getting Holga ready to play -- Let's get shooting!: learn to love your plastic camera's quirks and make artful images -- Techy tips: using filters, fancy films and flash with plastic cameras -- Holga camera modifications: fussing with your Holga -- Film handling and processing: processing, handling, and storage of exposed film -- Prints and pixels: reviewing and printing your images -- Alternative processes and presentations: alternative printing techniques, and information about matting, framing and presenting your photographs to the world.
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Take a tour of the burgeoning world of plastic cameras and low-tech photography in this fun and funky guide to creating the most artistic pictures of your life! Whether you're an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find this guide full of tantalizing tips, fun facts, and absolutely striking photographs taken with the lowest tech tools around. You'll learn how to prep your plastic camera, their advantages and quirks, and what film to feed it. You'll also explore what makes a good subject, vignetting, multiple exposures, panoramas, close-ups, night photography, color, flash, problems and solutions, and so much more. Michelle Bates also takes you from a negative to either prints or pixels so that you can show off your photos and jump on the toy-camera revolution! Contributors include: Michael Ackerman, Thomas Michael Alleman, Erin Antognoli, Jonathan Bailey, James Balog, Michelle Bates, Phil Bebbington, Gyorgy Beck, Susan Bowen, Laura Corley Burlton, David Burnett, Susan Burnstine, Nancy Burson, Perry Dilbeck, Jill Enfield, fotovitamina, Annette Elizabeth Fournet, Brigitte Grignet, Eric Havelock-Bailie, Christopher James, Michael Kenna, Wesley Kennedy, Teru Kuwayama, Louviere & Vanessa, Mary Ann Lynch, Anne Arden McDonald, Ted Orland, Sylvia Plachy, Dan Price, Becky Ramotowski, Nancy Rexroth, Francisco Mata Rosas, Richard Ross, Franco Salmoiraghi, Rosanna Salonia, Jennifer Shaw, Nancy Siesel, Mark Sink, Kurt Smith, Sandy Sorlien, Pauline St. Denis, Harvey Stein, Gordon Stettinius, Ryan Synovec, Rebecca Tolk, Marydorsey Wanless, Shannon Welles, Matthew Yates, Dan Zamudio * Now including the latest and greatest cameras, from the Pinhole Wide Holga, the Stereo Holga, and the all-new Blackbird, Fly *This edition expands on its fabulous lineup of artists by including well-known Christopher James and Michael Kenna *Still the most informative, colorful, and inspiring Plastic Camera guide in existence.