I shoot horizontally.

After spending years trying to find myself taking pictures with various reflexes, I one day was introduced to the LC-A by a friend of a friend and quickly fell in love with it. I didn’t notice at first but I started taking pictures horizontally, almost always. I think that in the beginning it was because the thumbnails were always horizontal on this website, but I then realized that my vertical shots seemed weird, like they were all somehow missing the point. I wondered for a while then it got clearer in my mind. I just wanted to see things simple. Horizontal because our field of view is horizontal. I didn’t want to elaborate anymore, the frame had to be horizontal. There is beauty everywhere, sidewalks, doorbells, lamps, people, you know how long the list actually is. From then on I would shoot horizontally, what I see, the way I see it, centered in the picture, as I stand in front of it.

The LC-A is the perfect camera for this because its vignetting induces a centered subject. The edges of its images are distorted, the light is dispersed and fades to black, revealing what remains in the center, something in the middle of nowhere.

written by yawn on 2011-02-24