Sunday, April 24, 2011

300th post: LOMO

Let's celebrate my 300th post!! \:D/ I was deliberating on what to post for today. Either about this book I just finished. Or that French movie I watched last week. Another option is the classic book I'm currently reading. But when I opened my dashboard I saw that I already have 299 post and this will be my 300th. I panicked! I wanted it to be special or something grand. So I looked up for inspiration. (Teehee) Then there it was, my hanged lomo pics.

In 2007, for some reason Lomo cams are all over Teen Vogue! I wanted one so bad because I thought they were cute and cheap plastic digicams. But they turned out to be film cameras. That didn't stop me from wanting it although it took me some time (ok years) before I finally acquired one. Since last year, influenced by my art class, I improved in photography and got hooked.

Finally, I bought last November 2010. Now I am an owner of an ActionSampler Flash. It has four lenses that takes photos 1 second apart. It's such a simple camera. Just the shutter and no more other features. Sadly, it's not like the digicams where in you can takes photos anywhere. That's why I'm struggling a lot. It only works well under the sun. Sometimes with flash but then it has a maximum of 3 meters when used indoor or at night.

In my first film which was an ISO 100 Fuji Superia; I got 11 out of 36. Also 5 shots of it were overexposed because I opened the back out of curiosity. Didn't know it's was a no-no. Then 15 out of 36 on my second one (a film given by my friend a Fujicolor). My third is not yet developed (another fujicolor) and my fourth is a Kodak Color with my friend Jenelley for a doubles experiment. All of them are ISO 100 which works best with sun lighting. I can't wait for the films that I ordered online that has higher ISOs.

So some of my experiments have worked. Like the one from above. I placed 4 different cellophanes on the flashers and that's what I got! Then below is a double exposed photo! I'm proud to say I've done them manually meaning I rewinded the film and reloaded it. Because some lomos have multi-exposure features. Well I guess it takes practice and patience. Maybe next time I'll have 20 out 0f 36 until I get 36 out of 36.
Lastly, I really enjoy it when I force my friends to move (quickly) so that our photo would become more interesting. Also, funny how everyone is like "What's that?" to my cam and how it makes this noisy "whiiiiiirr" noise. :D

Note: The photos look better in flesh. I just took photos of the photos coz' our scanner won't work.

So this is my 300th post!

Bisous!

posted by: mars @ 6:27 AM

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