Lomo Developments

As many exposures as you like..

All of St Pauls Carnival in one picture,

The Family Wedding,

 

A Birthday Mess

Lomo. (so hipster it hurts)

I started taking my little Diana Mini and colour splash flash on a few nights out this term, 

although attempting to load film whilst drunk is NEVER a good plan there  

are some interesting shots from a few good nights.  

A bit of a wonder around Leicester Industrial Estates

I'm thinking a little more exploring needs doing round here.....

Freezing! but beautiful.

Leicester.  On the way home.

Taken while balancing a massive sack of uni crap and an arm of books, nearly gave up on finding the camera but   glad I didn't.

How many exposures?

The top one is strange. 

How many people do you count in it?

OLD black and whites.

I dug out a load of undeveloped negatives from my art foundation, these are probably from the my first ever go with an analogue SLR camera.  Taken in Bath probably some time around December 2007.

Snow!

So I went home last weekend from uni for the first time ever, got back on friday and by saturday morning it had snowed!  Only a dusting, but while making breakfast I got a little overexcited by the frost patterns I saw on the shed windows, grabbed the camera and ran outside for a look.   Realised I was barefoot about halfway across the frosty garden, I would not recommend going barefoot in the snow.  It woke me up, but getting ice burns on your toes for the sake of frosty shed windows isn't a particularly good plan!

made.

This is the final for my latest project the brief was to create a range based around the word heritage.  I ended up going off on a tangent basing the project around vintage black and white photography, and classic menswear.  I wanted to keep it as simple and minimal as possible, the sole is lazer cut and the design is taken from photographs of old Leica lenses.  Im pretty pleased with how its turned out although there are a few niggles with the quality of the making I was just glad that the project is over.
Handed in on tuesday, but was swiftly followed by a massive crises which i will make a separate post about sooon.

New Camera

In the end I went for the Lumix G10 and I'm pretty impressed with it to be honest.  Its light, easy to use and takes a pretty decent picture.  It has survived a few nights out and a few outings into town all I need todo now is check out some of the empty buildings I keep on seeing around Leicester.  

Bad times!

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My trusty 3.5 year old Lumix has gone and snuffed it!  Not impressed and no idea how it happened either.  This is why cameras still need viewfinders because Digi screens do this! argh!  It will take a photo but I can't see what the hells going on. grr I feel slightly crippled now and ever since it happened I keep seeing awesome shots I could take too.  Sods law.  I will have to start lugging about an analogue everywhere i go....  Wondering on what to get to replace this now.... a DSLR? 

 I've been cruising which? online for the last few days (after hacking into dads account)  pondering what to do.  The best and cheapest option is looking like a Panasonic Lumix DMC-G10 which is like a big daddy to the little one I have, although it isn't a full-size DSLR its something called a MFT(micro four-thirds) camera.  I am pretty small though, kind of a Micro Four-Thirds Human, not that that makes much difference.....hmmm good reviews though, in-fact an amazing review on which? 3rd and cheapest on best buy cant be bad eh?

Or there is the Canon EOS 1000D

choices. choices....and much much moneys! crap.

CRE

So, what do you do on a Monday afternoon in September with a friend, a car, a few rolls of film, 4 analogue cameras and the AA road atlas?  A good, if slightly specific question.  Ultimately we ended up taking a rather convoluted drive to the other side of Cheltenham via Gloucester and the wrong bit of the M5 (this involved a fair bit of swearing, consulting of the road map and a shit load of traffic lights) to visit an abandoned Industrial Research Facility and take pictures of it.  Definitely a productive day.

These are some of the pictures I came out with, if you want to see the rest check my flickr account.

http://www.flickr.com/

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Bestival Photos (belated)

Give a 3 and 6 year old a camera. go on. dare you.

some of the edited highlights from Trinny and Ellie's photographs

Black and white SLR film. take 3. Uncle Norm's 60th feat the cousins

the Ma and Pa

Mum, Ellie and random dolly

Ell and Ted

Trinny and Ellie

Ellie and Ted

The two little girls in these shots are my cousins kids and where just way too much fun.  I ended up giving them a digital camera each and let them run about taking photos of EVERYTHING!  I'll put their shots up later on following some heavy editing, because when I say they photographed everything, I do mean everything. At least twice!