brian hefele's untidy space: photography

Photographic Toy as Photographic Tool - 3R

brian hefele — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:33:28 +0200

There has long been a movement in photography in contrast to the Leica shooters who settle for nothing but the purest glass. These photographers instead opt to embrace the effects of the flaws present in toy cameras with their plastic lenses and light leaks. Some people even put toy camera lenses on their fancy DSLRs. Experimental photographers have long embraced expired film, and processing film improperly (warning, links contain some amount of film snobbery).

Fade To Black

brian hefele — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:01:54 +0200

First thing's first - this should be the first post written here w/ my new upgrades to kukkaisvoima in place! So if anything breaks, that will be exciting… Next matter of business - remember when Polaroid stopped making Time Zero, and then they stopped making instant film altogether? And all of our SX-70s and Daylabs became useless? And then remember when some people undertook the impossible project of buying up a Polaroid factory and all the equipment, with the promise of making new film, calling it 'The Impossible Project?' Well if you don't remember, now you're up to speed on what this is all about.

The luck, the find.

brian hefele — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:01:54 +0200

haunted sky - click for flickr page.

Above is one of my photos which has drummed up a bit more interest than most of my work. This makes sense - it is a much more interesting photo than my usual fare. The sky is bizarre and enchanted, and why? Are we looking at strange clouds? Smoke from a bonfire? Contrails from an alien craft? The answer lies beneath, another photo from the series:

oil, puddle. - again, click to go to flickr.