This is so interesting!
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I'd say that working within the limits of the medium, in this case the gameboy camera, means that you need to understand the limits, and understand them well. What are the max resolution, focal length, and contrast ratio that you can get?
Once you have that figured out you can start planning your shots and pick an environment that works within those limits. Once you can take a picture that isn't washed out etc, at that point it's just the normal elements of composition, rule of thirds, light-source etc. Since the camera is monochrome, you may be able to do something interesting with light vs shadows, but I suspect that contrast will need to be super high for it to work.
Finally if you are actually serious about this, you will very quickly reach the limits of the equipment meaning that you'll ultimately be unsatisfied with the outcome even after putting a lot of planning work into it. There is a reason people suggest using pinhole cameras as a first foray into photography. The pinhole camera is much more capable then the Gameboy while still having a lot of limitations that encourage experimentation.
Thanks! This is super helpful. I’ll try and test some of this stuff out. The light vs shadows sounds like a very cool concept and I’m excited to test it out :) I really appreciate you’re feedback!
This is sick. What is the thing in the foreground on the left? vegetation?
It’s trees on the path to the base :). I was trying to make the image a little more dynamic but I think with such limited resolution it didn’t quite work out right
I think it worked great! I figured it was something like that. Cool project, I'm interested to see what else you can do with it
With such low resolution you'd really have to focus on composition for every shot. But that said it's crazy how that blob of pixels can still be seen as a unmistakable shape
Yeah! It’s really amazing how good we are at recognising images. I think the low resolutions will provide some interesting challenges which hopefully will result in an interesting image. I think I’ll start really focusing on composition now. Thanks :)
Yo that's tight
This is cool asf
I love this!
