Online Portfolio of Michael Wach

“Shake it like a Polaroid picture”… something that is being forgotten by more and more people today. Instant photography was at once considered the wave of the future. Today, digital cameras have been outselling film for a number of years now. You can still purchase a Polaroid camera for around $30 to $40, but don’t count on the film being available for very much longer. Polaroid recently announced that they would discontinue film production and close four U.S. factories.

About 60 years ago, Polaroid was towards the peak of its success. Edwin Land released his original “Land Camera” and instant film that developed in less than a minute. The photographic medium was used by some of the most famous name fine art photographers such as Ansel Adams, David Hockney Read More...

Here are the results of my digital photography class I took throughout the spring semester of 2008 at UAT. These pictures may not be the best but at least the class was fun. Actually it wasn’t really the class that made it fun, it was really the missions I went on to get photos for our assignments. I shot everything using a Pentax Optio 555. It’s a rather mediocre quality camera. There’s some things that look good from this camera, but I just think the lens is worthless. My buddy has a brand new fancy cannon with about 10 mega pixels. So I am slightly envious..

The class assignments varied by subject matter. We started with pictures of the UAT campus and worked our way out to rest of the world. This lead to Read More...