Recently I found out my favorite camera phone app
It's a throwback to the days of old film cameras where you could expose a shot and then without advancing the film (so no automatic film advance) take another picture on top of it.
You can get the same effect in Photoshop by placing one picture on top of another and adjusting either the opacity of that picture or the blending mode. But I'm old fashioned. I like doing it in the moment and seeing what happens.
The way the app works is that you snap the picture and then without seeing a preview, you have to snap another. So it takes some thought. Or luck. Or both.
I don't know. Maybe they're horrible. Maybe they're too much like a piece of bad modern art. But I like them. There's something fresh and unexpected about them.
And if nothing else, it's something to do in the car when you're bored.
Or you can entertain kids when they're bored.
I don't know that they'll win any awards or anything like that, but for now, they're satisfying my incredible urge to get back into film photography - both the toy kind
So until then, I'll be in my backyard...
...pretending my phone camera is really a little plastic film camera.
