Digital Photobooths SUCK

I LOVE photobooths! Its all about closing the Curtain and making something FUN! Its waiting 5 minutes for that slice of time to drop into a slot for you to remove!! Sometimes they are still wet and SMELL of photo chemistry.. WHAT JOY!!!

It looks like that experience will soon be no more. Digital Photobooths are spring up and the old chemical booths are getting harder to find every day. I hate the new digital booths. Sure they take 6 pics instead of 4 pics per strip. But the format sucks its a stupid square that's almost a close up and the paper feels and looks FAKE.. Plus its dropped into the slot 30 seconds after the last flash goes off in the booth. Wheres the anticipation of something magical about to appear in the drop slot!!

UGH!!!!! Progress SUCKS!!!!!

Just need One

There is just one Sun to Light your film outside so I like to use JUST ONE LIGHT when I shoot Polaroids in the studio. Hot Lights give the skin a nice warm glow plus you can play with the Barndoors and the direction of the light to make the Light HARD or SOFT.

FUJI LAND

I'm starting to use my Fuji Instax Camera as I approach the end of my stash of Polaroid 600 Film. I think I'm down to my last 6 boxes and will try to make each box a special event when I use it. I know there is still 600 film out there on ebay and amazon but I can not pay the 40 dollars a box of 10 exposures they are asking and the price will keep on rising. I Really like the Cool Blue Color Values of the Fuji Film but I'm getting FRUSTRATED by the CHEAP ASS FUJI 200 CAMERA. You can not get close with it and the Rangefinder Viewfinder is a JOKE!!!!! But on the bright side the film is cheap at 12 dollars, for a pack 10 exposures. I think its time to finish up the Polaroid 600 Film I have before it goes bad then move onto my stash of Polaroid Spectra Film. I will then have to decide if thats it for me or go ahead and move on over to FUJI LAND where THE COLOR SPECTRUM RUNS TO THE COOL SIDE.

Road Trip Back in Time

I think I have been to this spot in Cabazon at least 4 times. Each time I stopped it was to take a Photograph. The most recent was 1-31-10. The first time was in the 80's and I used a Widelux camera to take Panoramas. Terry Muggier happened to also be there shooting a fashion spread and they told me don't point my lens that way, which was fine with me as I was to busy laughing as they tried to hang some model from the Dinosaurs Head. Poor Girl was not happy about that as it was very windy that day and the cherry picker was swaying as they were trying to get her in place to set up the shot. It was not windy when I took Photos this time. Tons of people were around and there was even a park with grass around the Dinosaurs. How different from the barren dirt lot back in the 80's.