Showing posts with label alternative to cameras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alternative to cameras. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Photo booth in Woolworths

Following on from yesterday's post on 'not recommended' cameras, I've been thinking about interesting alternatives. The first alternative that comes to mind is the photo booth!
Me and my best palPhoto booth images are a rarity in my collection, which is a shame because they're very playful (except for passport photos). You enter the photo booth with an attitude that says "I'm paying for these photos, I'd better show how much fun I'm having". Surely even people who are reluctant to have their portrait taken must loosen up in a photo booth!

The two chavs photograph above was taken when I was fourteen. The photo booth was in Woolworths in Rhyl, North Wales and I remember the day vividly including the journey, the beach and the fairground rides. It's probably the most natural photo I have of my teens and one of the very few where I wasn't wearing my cub scouts uniform. Didn't I have amazing ears!

There's a good link to photo booths art here www.photobooth.org

The second alternative is the pinhole camera, but not your everyday pinhole camera, the matchbox pinhole camera!
For the price of a roll of film and a box of matches you can make beautiful images.


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