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peewee82 — The World's In Our Hands
Published: 2007-07-11 09:59:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 3733; Favourites: 175; Downloads: 63
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Holding my 50yr old Yashica LM medium format camera, viewing the wetlands at Nudgee Beach on the ground glass.Related content
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hi! this lovely image has been featured here: [link] hope thats okay!
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This image you have created sums up the reason why I just bought a MF camera. To hold the world in my hands!
excellent shot!
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I really love this. It's very beautiful and really well thought-out. Did you use and major editing for this? So nice.
I have a camera similar to it. It's called a Spartus Vue-Find. Really wonderful cameras.
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Much like most common film cameras. It's a twin lens reflex camera, which means it has two lenses - one for the viewfinder and one for exposing onto the film. The viewfinder shows the reflected image via a mirror, which is also in the more common SLR (single lens reflex) cameras, except for SLR's, when you press the shutter the mirror flips up. Anyway that's just a waist level viewfinder on my camera instead of the prism viewfinder common to most cameras.
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I see, thank you for your explanation.
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great job, and a fantastic concept to it. very nice idea
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fantastic :]
i have a yashica-a and i love it
and i love shots like this, through the viewfinder.
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Im more intested in the picture on the camera than this picture. Its a good concept but there are too many images like this in the world.
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very nice and for me it's quite original! like it, thanks for showing!
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Very cool. This would make a great opening scene for a video.
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Looking great!
Can I add it to the club's gallery?
=anmari
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Thanks. Yes you certainly may.
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Ahh nothing like looking through the ground glass on a yashica
Really have to get around to developing the b/w negs i have here from it. Maybe next weekend...
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yay petey it looks awesome! can't wait to see the others
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i love this concept I was talking a while back about doing something similar for art with my med format coz i love the idea, but ray/joachim not cool for it i dont think.... but there you go. wont do it now 
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Ooh interesting to know, thanks. Well I was considering pursuing the concept for my folio, but wish to use some underlying concept at the same time. I was worried it'd be a bit gimmicky though. This was my first real go at it and the ones with Faith were just playing around really. I'd like to really attack it and see where it could lead, but we shall see. I might just throw the idea and this image out there to Marian and Co on Tuesday and see what the reactions are.
I have a few other ideas too, but it's a bit up in the air at the moment.
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don't worry, im in the same place. not really sure where i want to go, don't really want to continue from last term, would really like to explore some ideas that have been floating around for a while now.... I don't know if i can major in art, i dont think im.... arty enough for it its all so conceptual and... im sure you could appreciate this, sometimes at the sacrifice of aesthetics. I think photography is the balance between the two.
but anyway
i think its great, not gimmicky at all. it COULD be, but i dont think you would let it be gimmicky. I have faith
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yay for paper. sigh. still don't know what im going to do for that. have ideas for fashion though... should be v fun 
paper paper paper what to do with paper!
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We shall see! I think the struggle of trying to get a concept across properly and make it actually look good, or make your pretty pictures have meaning, really does help us to grow and to establish what is worthwhile. It always seems so difficult and sometimes feels a bit fake, but the effort really shows if you pull it off.
I think I've finally learnt that people telling you to do it their way has its benefits in forcing you to question and shift and shape your work, and this is the best thing to take out of it rather than just be frustrated with arrogance and disagreements.
Oh well, for now...it's taking a photo of a piece of paper.
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that's a great photo we're looking at through there. did you ever capture it?
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Thanks for your comment.
You could say this image was born out of frustration that my digi cam just couldn't cut it as far as reproducing the scene as it appeared, and unfortunately I was shooting b&w film with this camera. So that added to the frustration. I shot a couple similar there on the roll though.
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