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I have a little friend who works at a Cash & Carry discount store - Sara. She's a doll, very cute, and has been asking me how to "get in the footworld". Today we picked up an old (used) film camera from a Goodwill store. It's an APS format camera, using small film cartridges - a kid's camera.
Little Sara LOVED it, she thought it was "cute", so I scored it for her. Then we went and took foot photographs with it, had them developed at a Rite Aid drug store and scanned them for the web.
So what kind of photos can you get from a five-dollar film camera? Not exactly national geographic standard, but not exactly trash, either. I now present new footgirl Sara and the results from her film camera.
I tried a combination of Smith Victor flood lights and a couple of slave flashes, which were triggered by the little built-in on the camera. Experimented around to try and get the best balance, etc. Tricky going.
Sara has silky, creamy little legs and soft, smooth feet. She loves shoe shopping and claims to know when a shoe salesman is enjoying her feet; which is a source of pride for her.
Overall, the results were not that bad. I recently did a little experiment with a three-dollar digital camera, but I think this worked out just as well. Little Sara's happy, she loves her new camera and is proud to be a new member of our little foot family up here.
Incidentally, she does have sweet feet and enjoys the idea of showing them off. She loves shoes, collects bootleg recordings and autographs. She takes a few night classes, and hopes to one day be a cosmetologist.
[ November 17, 2008, 10:16 PM: Message edited by: Ben Del Amitri ]
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Posting a few photos from the thread with the $3.00 keychain digital camera experiment. The thread's no longer there, but here are a few shots from that post:
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...and now I think I'm officially in love with Sara.
She appears graceful, confident, and playful. 3 of my favorite things. And what glorious feet. Thank you for this. I'm dying to see more of her. Especially the wrinkled soles... she's magnificent.
quote:Originally posted by solesearching: ...and now I think I'm officially in love with Sara.
She appears graceful, confident, and playful. 3 of my favorite things. And what glorious feet. Thank you for this. I'm dying to see more of her. Especially the wrinkled soles... she's magnificent.
You really hit the nail on the head with the "playful" element of Sara. There will be plenty more of her, this is just the very first of her foot experience - and she is very motivated.
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quote:Originally posted by Solective10: Great shots. Lighting is a huge deal with cheaper cameras.
Lighting is important, and even more so with cheap cameras. I've got a couple of "digi-flash" slaves of variable output - a couple of well-placed slave flashes can bring a cheap camera up quite a bit.
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quote:Originally posted by MarcusB: It's ok Ben, as long as they keep coming, we'll keep photographing them! nuther great find!
You've got that right! They seem to come out of the woodwork though, this world is FULL of beautiful, darling girls - and yes, we will continue to photograph them as long as there are cameras (or whatever replaces them).
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quote:Originally posted by Hal: Great pics. You should make this a regular contribution...testing lo-tech cameras on your hi-tech models
What happened to the other thread (the one about the $3 camera). Why was it deleted?
Cheers, -Hal-
Actually, Hal, that's pretty much what I've been thinking about. Doing foot photographs with specifically low-tech cameras and equipment. I've even ordered a used Soviet Holga film camera from ebay ($19.00 plus shipping), a 1960s Brownie and a Japanese "Hello Kitty" disposable.
Incidentally, in this case even the scanner a was a cheapie - an old Microtek from the days of Windows 95, and it even had a SERIAL cable.
The $3.00 keychain digital camera thread from the Misc. section ... some guy stepped on the thread and started posting his own photos in it, so I just deleted it. I may reprise it though, because I've got a LOT of new photos of Malory, Kristin and two of the Ambers; some of them are not bad.
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