num_pages: 240
description: Take a tour of the burgeoning world of toy cameras and low-tech photography with Plastic Toying with Creativity. Whether you're an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find Plastic Toying with Creativity chock full of tantalizing tips, fun facts and, of course, absolutely striking photographs taken with the lowest tech and simplest tools around.I got me a Holga. Now What?Holgas need a little TLC before they're ready to go out in the world and start snapping. Plastic Toying with Creativity digs through all the different Holga models available, lays out thier advantages and quirks and helps you get up to speed on all the prep you'll need to do to jump in on the toy-camera revolution.What should I Feed my Holga?Holgas, Dianas, other toy cameras can use many types of film. Plastic Toying with Creativity, lays all their pros and cons on the line letting you get some images you want, and some you could just never imagine.Can Holga come out to play?Plastic Toying with Creativity will help you steer your way through all the details and quirks of taking wonderful and weird pictures with your toy camera. We'll explore possible subjects and the best way to shoot them and play with all sorts of techniques from vignetting, to multiple exposures, to panoramas, close-ups, movement, night photography, flare, flash, color and more.For the Intrepid Holga-ographerFor the Holga master, we've diagramed and described advanced toy camera modifications and introduce you to a variety of problems, solutions and inventions born from toy cameras' "limitations.”What Next?From negatives to prints or pixels, we help you navigate your post-shooting choices.Don't ForgetThe Diana, Banner, Action Sampler, Photo Blaster, and Lensbaby are all toy cameras with their own loveable qualities. We'll look beyond the Holga to show a whole wide world of toys.Artists Artists in this book Michael AckermanJonathan BaileyEric Havelock-BaillieJames BalogBetsy BellSusan BowenLaura BurltonDavid BurnettNancy BursonPerry DilbeckJill EnfieldAnnette FournetMegan GreenWesley KennedyTeru KuwayamaMary Ann LynchAnne Arden McDonaldDaniel MillerTed OrlandRobert OwenBecky RamotowskiNancy RexrothFrancisco Mata RosasRichard RossFranco SalmoiraghiMichael SherwinHarvey SteinGordon StettiniusMark SinkKurt SmithSandy SorlienPauline St. Denis;-p r a b u!
language: English
title: Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity
titlecomplete: Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity
genres: How To, Photography, Crafts, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 176
publisher: Focal Press