Building and publishing an app for the iOS App Store all from an iPad Pro is possible! I was able to do it for my 36Exp camera app, don’t believe me take a look at the proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvdILaXp5w For my app idea, I wanted to build a film camera experience app. This meant handling camera… Continue reading Building and Publishing an iOS App with your iPad for real
I have always been impressed by the art of street photography. Where the photographer is right in the action of others' daily lives, strangers in passing and capturing that decisive moment. Ever since I got my first rangefinder (not necessary for street photography) I have wanted to try my hand at capturing these fleeting moments.… Continue reading Making a Radar Zone Focus Device for Better Street Photography
I have been building out my home lab since 2020 and recently wanted to setup my partners parents with a simple home server where they could backup photos and documents locally. I wanted it to be a fairly small and unobtrusive device that could be run with minimal input. For this I decided to try… Continue reading Super Quick Home Server Setup with Umbrel
There are lots of things that make film fun, but the one that I have been experimenting with lately are ones that flip the script on colors. These color swapping films, exclusively from Lomography, change the color sensitivity of the layers so that for example blue becomes red and red becomes blue which is the… Continue reading A Study in Turquoise: Comparing Lomo Turquoise Film to Digital Emulation
One of the areas of photography that I want to improve on is portraiture. Being able to capture someone’s likeness, their personality, their soul, is such a powerful tool. And in so many situations I consistently fail to achieve the look I was going for in my head. Inspired by Willem Verbeeck’s idea of a… Continue reading Open Sauce Maker Portraits: A Photography Self Project
I was quite surprised that my idea of using a 3D film camera with infrared film and a custom filter worked so well in creating an Aerochrome-like image. The basis of the idea can be found in my previous post below. https://teaandtechtime.com/an-analog-aerochrome-film-replacement/ But there were still problems I wanted to solve, the first being the… Continue reading Improving the optics of the Tri-Aerochrome Film Filter
Always in a constant search for new ways to produce the iconic imagery of Kodak infrared Aerochrome film, I thought up an interesting method that only requires an iPhone, a 720nm Infrared filter, and some kind of Photoshop software! Video Guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64H-s7o0RSE&t=2s The video goes into detail on the exact process, but a quick summary… Continue reading Cheapest Infrared Aerochrome Imaging with an iPhone
Always chasing the beautiful colors of the elusive Aerochrome film I dived into the art of infrared photography. It is one of the many niche areas of photography, infrared photography can produce images that are almost otherworldly. This is because infrared light is invisible to the human eye, making the resulting images alien to our… Continue reading Converting a Digital Camera to Take Infrared Aerochrome Images
In a few previous projects, I investigated ways to create images that look like the famous Kodak Aerochrome infrared film. As a film stock that is just not available anymore, we must look for ways to re-create it in creative ways. The color swap method gets easily confused on things that are green but not… Continue reading An Analog Aerochrome Film Replacement
Purchasing a Leica camera on eBay is always a daunting task, between the sky-high price and the vintage nature you are bound to have some sleepless nights. One of the ways I have been able to afford such a camera is that I looked to purchase one that was mechanically functional but may have been… Continue reading Replacing Leather on the Leica M4
