DIY Instagram? Not Exactly.
Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 8:40AM If your phone is "dumb" like mine, you can still create your very own, beautiful, low tech Instagram photographs. All you need is a film camera (In this case a Nikon F3 - but any old point and shoot will do) and a roll of expired Kodak Gold Max 400 - preferably one that has lived in a shoe box since 1998, when you graduated and moved into that $400/month Adams Morgan group house OR, if you are 19, one that has lived in a shoe box that your mom has owned since 1991, when rent was only $200/month.
Extra points for getting the print shop to scan your film full frame and without removing the dust.
To illustrate the effect, here are a few shots from a pumpkin picking day last fall with neighbor Martha and her daughter Eddy. I know, not very instant, but isn't the memory of a cool fall day a nice discovery now that the DC summer heat is here for a while? Can you think of a better use for an old roll of film?
Individual results may varry.
And of course there were pygmy goats.
Reader Comments (1)
These are fantastic! Nothing beats fall light from the late afternoon sun!