abstracts SX-70

ohne titel 2

ohne titel 1

shot with sx-70, then equalized and gray-scaled in photoshop

[c]2008 doug duffey

swiss billboard collage

i love making photos of places where people have put up posters, signs, fliers etc. and others have ripped them down to put theirs up. eventually they end up looking like collages. i shoot these whenever i see them, and have done that all over Europe since about 1991. i scanned these negatives at 2400 DPI- so they can be blown up. i could crop them more, but rather like the torn tape on the outside edges. these were shot in switzerland.

[c]2008 doug duffey

scanning negatives

in trying to go through papers, box them up, move them, etc. and make order in the room, i pulled out a plastic container filled with negatives i had planned to scan years ago! inside were pages of negatives from Russia, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Germany... things I'd never printed, had printed, or scanned. there were a lot of great surprises- like finding my misplaced Russian negatives- but it will take forever to go through them ALL; it's taken me 2 days and nights just to scan the ones from Russia.

i still have binders full of negatives from Egypt, Italy, France, England, USA and Canada- not to mention all the slides i've also made. if i didn't have other stuff to contend with, i could happily sit and scan these for the rest of the year!

[c]2008 doug duffey

blurs from the past- russia early 90s

i love blurs, double exposures and light leaks! discovered these while scanning my russian negatives.
me at the piano in the u.s. ambassador's residence- moscow 1991 or 1992- think misty wilmore shot this using my canon ae-1

a shot by me of "misty wilmore" in traditional russian head dress- moscow

man walking with child & umbrella- zagorsk, russia- 1991 or 1992

[c]2008 doug duffey

SELF PORTRAITS

i shot this by a lamp, using a Polaroid Spirit w/600 film- then gray-scaled and equalized it in Photoshop. it looks like old german expressionism.

this was a SX-70 mistake. i was shooting the muffin tins in a brown paper bag, last night w/the sx-70. because there was no light in the bag the shutter froze- so i pulled it out and pointed it at myself- which caused this weird double exposure. looks very Dada- like a gas mask or something!
[c]2008 doug duffey

POLAROID SX-70 - 8.18.08

in a DADA-ist mood, i shot some ordinary kitchen items with the SX70 today

grater

muffin tins

sifter

i also did some experiments with light:

cardboard inside a cardboard box

the inside of a brown paper bag

[c]2008 doug duffey

BERLIN -POSTERS

various posters-on poles or walls- i shot in Berlin in the 90s

[c]2008 doug duffey

bern blau

2 shots from Switzerland- 2007- the top is in Bern; the lower is in my room in the old hotel post [before they renovated/ruined it this past year] zermatt

[c]2008 doug duffey

bridge-new orleans- 2008

shot w/a 'toy' 35mm plastic camera and b&w [color process] film

[c]2008 doug duffey

TV shot with sx-70

i was shooting a black and white movie off TV- but because the lens stayed open so long [due to adjusting to light]- the image moved and this was the result.
[c]2008 doug duffey

compact fluorescent bulbs and the sx-70

i have figured out that all my sx-70 self portraits come out with a yellow tint because i only have compact fluorescent bulbs in the house!

if all the world's a stage, i want better lighting.

[c]2008 doug duffey

shop windows w/ sx-70

shop windows- west monroe- shot at dusk today using Polaroid 600 film in a Polaroid sx-70- no filter- enhanced w/Photoshop. i'm amazed these came out at all. the actual prints are very light; but, when i hit 'equalize' the colors popped out. Photoshop covers a multitude of sins.

i'm not usually into loud colors- but i do like reflections and blurs and such, which these have.
[c]2008 doug duffey

sx70 screw up

the 600 film stuck in the sx-70! i pulled it out and waited... and voila.
[c]2008 doug duffey