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New Review Alert: IP B&W Film for 600 Generation 2.0

April 20, 2015 By Dan Finnen

The Impossible Project is unleashing a whole mess of next generation instant films, and the first one I have up for review is their amazing B&W for 600 Generation 2.0. Improving on an already great instant film, Generation 2.0 brings faster development times and a high quality image. Read all about it in the full […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: black and white, Instant film, monochrome, new review alert, Polaroid, the impossible project

New Review Alert: Fuji Instax Wide Instant Film

April 8, 2015 By Dan Finnen

To go along with my new review of the Fuji Instax Wide 300 I’ve written a dedicated review for the film it uses. Fuji Instax Wide film is just a bigger version of Fuji Instax Mini and is comparable in size to Polaroid Spectra/Image film. It’s a great instant film format, but a bit on […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: fuji instax wide, Fujifilm, new review alert

New Review Alert: Impossible Project Magenta for 600

March 31, 2015 By Dan Finnen

The march of new photography gear reviews continues with a look at the Impossible Project’s Magenta for 600 Instant Film. Do you like pink? This is the film for you. Like all modern Impossible Project films, it won’t be giving you any funny business, but it’s a fairly single purpose film. Read all about it […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Instant film, magenta, new review alert, pink, the impossible project

New Review Alert: Fuji Instax Wide 300 Instant Camera

March 28, 2015 By Dan Finnen

It’s no secret that the Fuji Instax 210 is not the world’s best camera, which is why I was thrilled when Fuji recently released the brand spankin’ new Fuji Instax Wide 300 camera. Finally we have a camera that uses the excellent Fuji Instax Wide film that isn’t completely terrible. Unfortunately, the new camera seems […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: camera reviews, fuji instax 210, fuji instax 300, fuji instax wide, Instant film

Orvieto is now online!

March 24, 2015 By Dan Finnen

My newest novella ‘Orvieto‘ is now online for you to download and read for free! Right now I have it hosted in PDF form on Scribd, and in the coming days I will have additional e-reader friendly versions up as well. I’ve set up an official page where I will always have the most up […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: dungheap.net, Helen Harvard Hump, novella, Orvieto

What I’ve been up to: Old Town

March 20, 2015 By Dan Finnen

If you’ve been watching Polmyth Productions/DistractChicago.com over the past few years, you may remember Liars, the webisode series we produced. Well, at long last, we’ve reunited with Brett Elam and Josh Logan (of Michael Pizza fame) to create the tv pilot for Old Town. I had a blast co-directing the guys with Derek Cox over […]

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: #oldtownshow, Old Town

New Article Alert: An Introduction to Working with Models

February 21, 2015 By Dan Finnen

I have a new article up that’s all about the basics of working with models for portrait photography. I don’t delve into the artistic side of posing and portrait photography, rather, I focus on the practical realities of finding and communicating with models, as well as the essentials of professionalism on set. It’s the article […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: modeling, models, new article alert, portaiture, portrait

New Screenplay: One Pot Coffee Shop

February 16, 2015 By Dan Finnen

It’s been a while since I’ve added anything new to the ol’ Dungheap, so I just uploaded a new screenplay for a short film called One Pot Coffee Shop. I wrote this about a year ago with the intent of producing it, but I quickly realized that the scope of the project was a bit […]

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Filed Under: Theater, Writing Tagged With: dungheap.net, New play alert, One Pot Coffee Shop, Screenplay, the Dungheap

Featured on Flickr Explore!

February 10, 2015 By Dan Finnen

It only came to my attention a few days after the fact, but the above picture of the recent Chicago blizzard landed on the Flickr Explore page on February 7th! Thanks Yahoo! As always, you can see all of my most recent work on my Flickr page. I’ve been updating it for years now, and […]

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Flickr, Snow, South Loop

The Year in Words I Didn’t Know

January 3, 2015 By Dan Finnen

My Kindle has a funky little new feature that I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the past year. Traditionally, every time one holds their finger down on a word, it comes up with the definition. It’s an incredibly useful feature, and one that I now find myself sorely missing in physical books. (Looking up words […]

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Filed Under: Misc, Writing Tagged With: 2014, Kindle, vocabulary, vocabulary builder, words

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I’m a writer, photographer, co-owner of Polymyth, host of the Chicago Writers Podcast, Super Gear Land, and more. You can reach me at hello (at) danfinnen.com.

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