Picking up the kid after practice, I had the toy camera with me and saw this light on the soccer balls. I ran down, explained myself and started snapping like a fool. Your guess is as good as mine as to how many exposures are in this. It's Agfa Ultra 50, so it was a lot... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), April 15, 2000

Answers

Placing the camera on tripod or using a much higher shutter speed would make the image much sharper.

Maybe you should check out a couple of basic photography books from the library. just kidding. . . . : ) nice catch.

-- Mike Dixon (burmashave@compuserve.com), April 15, 2000.

Tom's shakey photographs are always enjoyable. I'm a big fan of blur, shake, whatever, it helps to make photos more expressive. Also, when I get old and can't hold the camera too well, it's a great explanation for my photographs :-)

The colors in this one really make it. Tom's photos often remind me of David Lynch, not sure why, but they do.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), April 15, 2000.

Nice photo! Great light, colours & camera shake. I'm curious about the 'toy camera', what type is it?

-- Rolf Rosing (rcrosing@dds.nl), April 16, 2000.

I count at least 5.

I'm gonna try this.

Cool shot!

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), April 16, 2000.

This ones cropped from a Holga, which has...ah, indistinct framing. I usually count exposures while I'm making the picture and go with either typical photo geek numbers (8,16,32) or a more recent system for me, Fibonacci numbers (http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html).

The quality of the light is critical, you can waste alot of film under the wrong conditions. This works well under low light, as specular highlights jump around and don't blow out so much, since the exposures are not registered precisely, letting the shadows build density and depend on graphic patterns/shape to convey whatever... t

Thanks Jeff... I've got good news... that chewing gum you like, is coming back in style...t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), April 17, 2000.