Amateur photographer Colin Lowe is turning heads for using an unlikely spud to form the overall body of his pinhole camera recording device. The avid pinhole photographer created the spud camera two weeks ago using a tomato paste tin, two 35mm film canisters, duct tape and elastic bands.
The creation came after one of his family bet that he could not take a photo using a potato.
Since then, Lowe has been using the tripod-mounted spud to take many photos around the Albany, Australia area. And yes, the image quality most definitely looks like it was shot using a potato.
"It's not until you process the film that you can see what you have got. "
In the past, Lowe has created pinhole cameras using cereal boxes, driftwood, and even a blender. "You can make things out of whatever you find in your back shed," he tells ABC News.
Potato selfie /Colin Lowe
Taking the spud out for a spin /Colin Lowe
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While the spud project has made Lowe a local celebrity, he sees his creations more importantly as a challenge. “It's pushing the boundaries to see what you can do. " Each experiment is original because of the custom qualities of the camera itself; therefore, “every image you take will be unique because you can never replicate it," he notes.
This isn’t the first time a potato hit the news, earlier in the year renowned portrait photographer Kevin Abosch managed to sell his potato portraiture for US$1 million.
. digitalrev.com
2016-10-21 03:00