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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Date: Aug 31, 2009
Aperture: 226
Galleries: Urban, Pinhole/Zone Plate
Date Uploaded: Dec 5, 2009

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Comments: 7
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 Photographed with the a Quaker Oats box pinhole camera. This one is f/226. Ilford paper and chemicals.

I sat on this one for a while. It has some flaws, but maybe that's the beauty of it. It's hard to "frame" a shot with a camera like this, but I knew I wanted the gentleman sitting a few seats down from me and, if possible, all of the building. I had an idea how it would look. I positioned the Quaker Oats box sort of diagonally, and then tried to point it toward the lower part of the building. That I got what I got was partially luck. Total luck was the fact that the fellow didn't move much during the duration of the forty second (!) exposure.

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 12/19/2009 02:43:05 PM
I'm waiting for someone to get suspicious of some dude walking around with this Quaker Oats box lol. The distortion is really cool. I love how you are demonstrating other ways to take photos.
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 12/15/2009 01:10:24 PM
I really like this... the distortion reminds me of Salvador Dali's work ;)
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 12/11/2009 08:05:07 AM
You inspire me to go out and get myself a holga or something of the likes... this is simple, yet it has so much charm and personality.. very nice!
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 12/07/2009 05:32:30 AM
Such an interesting shot, im looking forward to more quaker oat pics!!
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 12/06/2009 03:22:18 PM
Your Quaker Oats series is pretty cool. I like the distortion (curvature) of the building in this. I highly recommend everyone take a look at this series and read the notes... My favorite is the story in this pic:
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 12/06/2009 01:15:14 PM
Man what an amazing about of Skew on that building. And for a no look through the viewfinder to frame it, I'd say wow again.
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 12/06/2009 11:22:16 AM
Absolutely fantastic! Not just a great shot, but with such an imprecise mechanism. You've obviously been practicing...a lot!
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