Saturday 19 February 2011

Olympus Trip 35 at Christmas

When I got my Holga 135BC in December 2009, I'd only really used a random, very basic 35mm camera before so when I tried to use it to photograph the German Christmas Market in town that year, it wasn't that successful (seeing as on a Holga 135BC you hold the shutter open for as long as you press the shutter release button down for). As a result I got quite blurry photos with too long a shutter speed. I was also only aware of being able to get ISO 200 film so that wasn't great in the dark either. And I hadn't had much practice loading film. Here are some of them, from Christmas 2009...



 (more of those here)

I was quite disappointed with them at the time but actually really like them a lot now, these two especially. Anyway, this Christmas just gone, I used my beloved Olympus Trip 35 and trusty ISO 400 film (from Poundland - get in) which I reckon 'delivered much better results' (I said it like that because that's what all photographer people seem to say). The focus is a little off in some of them, but that's something that many a Trip 35 user seem to struggle with, especially in the dark.



(more of those here)

Thinking about it now, it's cool to compare my knowledge then, and my knowledge now. It's cool what you can learn in under a year about something if you're really interested in it (especially if, like me, you're busy with a job or school/college/uni work and you have to fit it in around that).

Redscale Film

Recently I won 'Lomo home of the Week UK' or something on Lomography.com which earnt me 50 piggy points (£50 free pound basically, to spend in the Lomo shop, awesome) and with them I bought a white Fisheye 1 which I've wanted for ages, and some funky film; 3 rolls of Lomography film ISO 400 and 3 rolls of Lomography redscale ISO 100.

I was looking on Lomography.com earlier because some lovely people liked and commented on my photos and I came across some really nice photos taken with an Olympus Trip 35 (my favourite film camera at the moment) and Lomography Redscale film, awesome. I'm clearly going to have to go to some sort of forest/woods when I test my film out.

All linked to their Lomo pages, taken by panchoballard.

Thursday 10 February 2011

Guido van der Werve

I found out about this photographer/film maker on this website which also has information about, and the work of, loads of other artists that I really like.

He takes photos, makes short films and also music compositions I think. But basically I went on his website (http://www.roofvogel.org/) to look at more of his work than was on the other site and I really liked it, so I wanted to put him on my blog like I have done with others.