Author: Kurt Weiske
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Greyhound Station, San Francisco CA. LOMO LC-A, Kodak HD 400 film
Krappy Kamera Gallery
(I so missed this – that’s what I get for not subscribing to EVERY BLOG OUT THERE… Do check out the link to the 2008 winners…)
Soho Photo Krappy Kamera® Competition
In the upstairs gallery, the Krappy Kollage–all the entries (over 1,400) for 2007’s Krappy Kamera show.
The beginning
Phone Line
Continuing my window study
A window I pass by every day on my way to and from work. This time, with a Colorsplash and Fuji Superia 400 film.
Don’t think, just shoot
This LOMO mantra’s been getting easier for me – since I’ve been growing my hair longer and spring breezes are here, I’m having a hard time looking through the viewfinder without my hair getting in the way of the lens or the viewfinder!
I shot a roll of some generic $.99 cent store ISO 200 film on my way home last night and didn’t look through the viewfinder once. We’ll see how it turns out!
<Obligatory photo posting>
Always check your settings…
I’m a bargain shopper, and when I see film on sale or closeout (which is happening more and more these days) I stock up.
I bought all of Walgreens’ Kodak HD400 film when they closed it out a couple of years ago, and it sat in my freezer ever since. I’ve had a fixation with slower speed film and my LOMO in a quest for the most saturation and finest grain, and so shot 100 speed film in my LOMOs and 400 in my SLRs. 100 speed film is getting harder to find, and I thought I’d try out 400 speed film to see if my bias was unfounded.
One benefit of 400 speed film in a LOMO is the extra two stops of film sensitivity. With the LOMO’s guesstimation zone focusing system, being able to stop the aperture down 2 stops helps widen the depth of field.
I loaded up a roll of HD400 in my LOMO and took it to the Mission Open Studios I blogged about yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised at how short the exposures were inside, even shooting in available light. I took 12 shots and was looking forward to seeing them. This morning, I took out my LOMO and noticed that I’d forgot to move the aperture setting back to A after shooting flash shots. This meant that ALL my shots yesterday were taken at f/16 and 1/60th second. I might be able to pull some detail out of them with photoshop; we’ll see how that turns out when I get the prints back.
The moral of this story is ALWAYS CHECK YOUR SETTINGS BEFORE YOU SHOOT.
Plastic Camera Redux
I found a roll of old photos from my TIME Camera and tried cleaning up some of the spots and lines from processing in Photoshop.
HS TAK
My new plastic favorite, the Vivitar IC 100
Art Explosion Open Studios this weekend!
From my friend Splicer’s blog.
I’m going to try to make the opening tonight, otherwise I’ll be there tomorrow.
Splicer and I go way back. He’s someone who knew me first as “Poindexter”…
Refreshing
This pic came off the first test roll from my Vivitar IC 100, a $1 plastic camera I picked up recently. It’s pretty standard looking. The insides could come from a LOMO Colorsplash or any number of unremarkable cameras. A simple lens, shutter speed and aperture fixed at 1/100th sec and f/5.6, and cheap enough to take anywhere (and not worry about it)…
Mannequin on Piedmont Avenue
LOMO at night
Light Fixture
Barbed Wire
Old LOMO Wall, 2009
I started putting my LOMOs into a patchwork using double-sided tape on an old piece of foamcore tape a few years ago, and got to the point where I needed something a little more usable. After a while, the prints would fall down, overlapping prints meant tearing the print when I rearranged them, etc.
I salvaged the ones I could, and replaced it with some hanger wire and stand-offs from Ikea. I mounted the prints on 5×7 index cards, and hang them using bulldog clips. I’ll post a pic when Lomowall Mk. II is complete!
Chopsticks @ 50mm, Oakland, CA
Old print, new scanner. This was taken in Oakland’s chinatown back in 2002 or so. I love the shallow depth of field you get with a slow film, an old mechanical SLR and a 50mm Prime lens.
Big Brother
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