Somewhat similar to my impossible buildings.

Film has become so precious to me that I have started reserving it for photographs so wonderful that they don’t exist.

I realized the result was that I was no longer shooting film. So I brought my Holga to work and shot a roll on my lunch break. I work in Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Tourist come from all over the world to take photos of this enchanting place that I have the fortune to experience almost daily.

I skipped lunch and played tourist in my own back yard.

I shot a roll of Kodak E100G 120 Ektachrome (which is sadly been discontinued within the last month) and I brought my iPhone along and took a few shots through the Holga(TTH).

I’m back in the habit of schlepping a film camera with me wherever I go and dropping off a roll of film whenever I get one developed.

See the rest of the film shots on Flick »

In the land of iPhoneography I have found a combination of filters from which a theme has emerged that I have been exploring over the last week: Impossible Buildings

Playing with a combination of apps I saw a local iPhone App Evangelist use, I stumbled across this recipe.

I have a natural affinity for pushing apps[anything really] to their limitations. The above photo resulted when I took an HDR Photofrom an extreme perspective and tested the limits of FrontView[LINK]. FrontView is an app designed to correct any undesired perspective… aka square your askew photos. So, of course, I wondered how it would work with a picture taken from an extreme angle.

The result was a beautiful, gently surreal building that resembled a wooden skyscraper.

I took the results and stretched them with Anticrop and then reflected them with a basic free reflection app until I had a new kind of tiny planet— an Impossible Building.

I am drawn to architecture, and as a friend pointed out… these photos are as much about the shape of the architecture as they are the sky.

Here’s the progression.

The original:

Kinotopic # 2.
Kinotopic is a new iPhone app that turns short videos into photos through iPhone magic.

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