POLAROID ONE STEP- WRONG FILM

well, i obviously made some weird photos with the One Step [see earlier posts]- THEN it just stopped working. i think because i put 600 film in it before reading "use sx-70" film- how it worked at all is weird.
[c]2008 doug duffey

what i do till 4AM+

a polaroid self portrait from the very early 1960s. funny that i was doing that back then- and still doing it- and sometimes with the same camera!
to see my 1960s & 1970s polaroid and photobooth galleries click the links below--- so many old photos-so little time....

http://picasaweb.google.com/duffey.doug/PHOTOBOOTH

http://picasaweb.google.com/duffey.doug/POLAROIDS1960SAND1970SBW

http://picasaweb.google.com/duffey.doug/POLAROIDS1960SAND1970SCOLOR

[c]2008 doug duffey

duffey battillo 1960s photobooth

this photo was made in the 1960s- [probably in monroe] - it got cut in half at some point and i just merged the two [badly] today. it's me and raymond battillo- he was the drummer with "white lighting" - i played keyboards [vox organ and key bass- later hammond b3 and foot pedals] sang and wrote some of the material. i dont remember if this was before or after the band was formed or disbanded. i seem to recall it was when we in transition from one band to another, but cant remember which! "white lighting' was a psychedelic rock/soul band from the ark-la-miss [bill dunn: vocals, sax and flute; dabney tannehill: guitar and vocals]- we moved to colorado [1st to nederland, then to denver] where we became house band at the Exodus. what a wild and crazy time it was!

[c]2008 doug duffey

POLAROID LAND 104

i made the above two fotos last night after loading the camera . i obviously had the settings wrong- and was shooting in low light- but they came out kind of arty anyway.

A self portrait i made today; trying out the "new" 2nd-hand polaroid land 104 camera i got for 1$ in a junk store in shreveport. obviously i had it too close to my face-and forgot to move the tabs for "close up"! blur!
and finally- a sharp foto- made of my back back yard [past my back fence, going to my woods]
all were shot using Fuji FP100B - b&w peel apart pack film.

[c]2008 doug duffey

alien with toothbrush

a self portrait made today w/polaroid one step; forgot to take the toothbrush out of my mouth!

[c]2008 doug duffey

photo booth pt2

hollywood 1970s

new orleans- 1970s

me and chip white- times square- nyc- 1990s

posing in new orleans in the 1970s

louise lawson and me- hollywood 1970s

a jazz trio i had in the late 60s/early 70s- me, gene pace and "robert from mississippi" [can't remember his last name]- monroe, la.

me in funk mode- hollywood in the 1970s

[c]2008 doug duffey

polaroid one step

self portraits w/ Polaroid One Step [shot by a table lamp]

i went to a party in shreveport last night, and hit some junk stores today before coming home. i found an old Polaroid one step and got it - and also another old "peel apart film" Polaroid 104 Land camera, and a 3D camera. very weird camera. cant wait to try it out.

i'll post the 3D stuff -and polaroid 104 stuff- when i run a roll/pack through it. i cleaned the cable ends and hooked up a battery in the 104 and the shutter worked... so voila! it might be cool because it has two different size lens 'holes'- one big one for color and a small one for b&w- but, i think the color setting would work with low light. i'll play with it when i get up!

the above are test shots i did with some fresh 600 film w/the One Step. as it doesn't have a flash i stood by a bedside lamp. the camera seems to stick/pause when you press the button, which makes for blurry images... which i like.

[c]2008 doug duffey

polaroid self portrait

polaroid self portrait- photoshopped- june 16.2008

[c]2008 doug duffey

louisiana- summer shot

polaroid shot- june 15th,2008- monroe, louisiana

[c]2008 doug duffey

PHOTOBOOTH PIX 1960s & 1970s

i love photo booths. i have hundreds of these photo strips of me and/or my friends from the 1960s onward. the strips are like little time capsules. i plan to do a whole gallery of these soon.

doug duffey and raymond battillo 1968

doug duffey- zen 1960s/1970s

doug duffey- 1960s/1970s

doug duffey- bill dunn early 1970s

bill dunn as julie driscoll- 1970s

debbie marsala/vicky goza 1960s/early 1970s

larry adcock 1970s?

[c]2008 doug duffey

doug duffey- city park- new orleans 1990-1991

[c]2008 doug duffey

eatin' watermelon on the porch

while trying to sort my photo files today [on about 4 different external hard drives] i came across this photo of me as a child, eating watermelon on the front porch of our old family home [where i still live]- both i and the house have changed a lot since then!

my mama made this photo and to me it is amazing - it's as good as dorothea lange's or walker evans' best work in capturing a place in time... in this case, Louisiana 1950s. i have a lot of old family photos she made, and she made a lot; some are really remarkable. i still have her old kodak 120 film camera. in a lot of the old family photos mama has the camera hanging around her neck.

mama with camera circa 1950s

[c]2008 doug duffey

jesus wants you to come!

[c]2008 doug duffey

car shots switzerland

boats and a cloud/smoking mountain - by thun

is it freddy mercury's dad? looks like it could be

both fotos shot with my older 2MP casio exilim

[c]2008 doug duffey

michael rasbury x DD- switzerland- may 2008

[c]2008 doug duffey

[c]2008 doug duffey

read today

a shadow self portrait shot last week [downtown Monroe] shot w/an slr on ilford bw film
the graffiti says, "read today; love god; don't give up; be smart; school= job"
on the ground is a bunch of trash someone had thrown there, which included 2 old electric irons

[c]2008 doug duffey

black bayou

shots done this afternoon [easter sunday 2008] at black bayou [north of monroe, louisiana] using polaroid 600 color film; then gray-scaled in photoshop. [the color was also nice... but ...i prefer the B&W]

btw, please click on www.savepolaroid.com and download the action pack and be an art activist!
i cannot imagine life without polaroid!

[c]2008 doug duffey

red filter- polaroid- etc

i've been shooting a lot of fotos- but haven't been posting them. i shot some stuff in chitzen itza, cozumel, new orleans, mississippi, and here in monroe this month. i've been using a variety of cameras: old Polaroid Land 210[B&W peel apart film]- it's my favorite-and another 600 Polaroid [color] i got for 2 bucks at goodwill- the flash was broken off it-but i don't shoot Polaroid at night anyway- so, don't need the flash. i hate flash. it works great- always ready. i've also been using my various toy cameras [35mm and 120- Diana & Flocon], some SLRs, and digital [casio exilim], toy digital [visionquest from wal-mart] etc. i really want an old Barbie 35mm plastic camera, even though i have at least 10-15 plastic 35mm toy cameras.

some of the Polaroids are incredible. scanned at hi-res they are impressive. the B&Ws done at chitzen itza are great. too bad i didn't just use the Polaroid Land 210- and fore go the other 6 or 7 cameras i schlepped around there. the color polaroids are not as good as the B&W; but scanned and grayscaled they look better. each camera i used got different results. these fotos below are NOT the best of the lot, but i like the effects. especially the double exposure, which was a happy accident. i processed about 9 rolls of b&w film last week; it took hours; unfortunately i tried using my plastic spools [which are supposed to handle 35mm to 120 film] and the 120 film did not fit. i should've just rolled it back up and waited till i got to my stainless steel spools- but, i threw the roll of film in the cannister and developed it, which ruined a good bit of it all. instead of 3 good BIG negatives of chitzen itza which were on the roll, i got maybe 1 clear one. some older shots from switzerland and elsewhere were on the same roll, and some ruined. c'est la vie. live and learn. patience is indeed a virtue- and one i do not have!

this week began cutting, sleeving, and scanning the negatives which takes even longer than developing them as i scan them between 1200-2400 dpi. some of the stuff was great BUT i've been noticing that a lot of my fotos have been washed out looking- as if the ASA setting, or the f/stops, shutter speeds, were wrong for the shots- not a high enough contrast.

then... i saw a documentary on Ansel Adams on PBS the other night and the nickel [quarter, nowadays] dropped. for one of his most famous shots he used a red filter to get higher contrast/dramatic effect... and always did a lot of dodging and burning, too- to bring out certain areas of the fotos. i always used the red filter [magenta, actually] on my enlarger when printing, to get better B&W contrast, and did indeed do some dodging and burning when printing- but i haven't been printing for the past decade- i've only been scanning negatives and posting fotos online- so i completely forgot about all that... and using filters!

so, i went and dug out some filters i'd bought in brocante/brockenstube in europe- and tried them on two of my better SLRs and Voila! they all fit. i had red, orange and yellow, some clear ones, and also found some dark gray [polarizing] lenses that came with one of the cameras i bought there. i plan to use the filters to finish off the film on those 2 cameras and check the results. why i never thought of this before is beyond me.

i read online that one should always use a yellow filter when shooting outside w/ b&w film. now my curiosity is piqued. on the bus to & from chitzen itza [march 5th] i was sitting by a woman who is some kind of videographer- she had some enormous digital camera w/her. she said when she was in film school she only shot B&W film w/a red filter. "i put a red filter on to shoot everything..." so these 2 different mentions of red filters, were an like an epiphany. i'll post once i have results.

[c]2008 doug duffey

dd with bell-n- howell plastic camera- zermatt

shot in zermatt, switzerland 2008- foto by sebastian niessner

[c]2008 doug duffey