The Gravel Pit
Still one of my favorites to shoot with is a $20 cheapie called a Holga. There’s no way in Photoshop to create the organic-ness of a purely crappy camera. Shot through a red filter, Ilford HP5, and scanned in.
I still love film, no question about it, and the way it works in toy cameras. There are ways to take the lens out of a Holga and strap it onto a digital SLR, but I haven’t been impressed enough with the results to want to do this.
This is a gravel pit in the middle of Quebec’s fishing country. When we passed by it on the way in, I knew I had to make some time get back there to shoot around because the landscape was so surreal. Representing and conveying this weirdness is attempted by shooting a high-resolution film in a low-resolution camera.
It was great being alone up there with just a camera to defend myself from Canadian gypsies or brown bears if they decided to make their presence known. Canada is still one of my favorite places to shoot.
Good one. This gravel pit is now at the top of my list of gravel pits of the world to visit.
Scott
16 Jan 08 at 11:14.am