World’s Largest Camera – On Wheels!
The Cameratruck: the world’s largest traveling camera. It creates images 3,000 times LARGER than that puny little 35mm you have in your hands right now. Creator Shaun Irving has transformed a mail truck into a giant, mobile camera obscura which means it’s basically a giant pin-hole camera with a lens one side and a 4-by-8-foot sheet of light sensitive photo paper hanging on the other….and of course on top of four wheels and an engine. When exposed to 5-30 second exposures, serve
as giant negatives. This camera has potential to travel the far reaches of almost anywhere and create massive images that could fill a billboard!
Here’s one of my faves
I love this project because it takes photography back to when it was primitive yet simple. You where intimately involved in the image capture and processing (which takes a least 1/2 an hr for each image) and working in the scape of only one fixed lens at a time. Even an old military submarine periscope is getting a second life! You can actually see the brush strokes from the chemicals being applied on the edges.
Motion/Picture – Short film by Shaun Irving – explains the art and science behind his cameratruck project.
Features samples of his work. Visit http://www.cameratruck.net to learn more.
A great story from NPR….
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/11/the_worlds_largest_camera_is_o.html
…and still want to learn more? A great interview of Shaun…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHkB85StcTI&feature=channel
La Eiffel Touer de Paris
The Eiffel Tower is one of the most photographed objects in history. (http://www.paris-live.com/) Not a single local, tourist, or pigeon has been to that great city and NOT witnessed that great structure. So when I approached this this gorgeous (arguably), unbelievably massive (not arguable) structure with a considerable amount of self induced pressure. Like the same kind of pressure an athlete feels when they need to play good game every night or a smart person needs to ace every test – you just want to do something great with what you’ve got! I took 100’s of images of the tower in the few short times I was in it’s presence. I’m not sure if these images are what I would call a ’success’ in the matter of showing a different perspective, but I do like each one individually and they take me back to a time this summer that was especially fun for me.
Lone Man and the Tower
So I was a little nervous to be honest. This thing is huge – and its reputation precedes itself (to pretty much every living human on earth) So naturally I wanted to go LARGE. *notice the elevator about half way up*
Eiffel Tower en Large
In the last hours of the night just before the tower’s lights turn off – they dance! Every 15 min. it erupts with light resembling a giant metal christmas tree that can be seen all over the city. We went up to the second level to take in the night views of the city and witnessed this phenom while on it….it was crazy! To look up the side all the way to the top while thousands of lights sparkling in the night sky was pretty sweet (I mean totally rad!)
Tower Lit UP
In the end I guess it was a success. This wasn’t for a magazine or client – only for me – and now that I can share these images and share a gimps of what my perspective of the Eiffel Tower is like (at this point in my photography infancy) I just wish I could PAINT it! haha
Eiffel At The End Of The Night