hello hello, how are you good friends, did you have a delightful weekend? it was so hot in lisbon that we hardly left the house! we are not that kind of people that run to the nearest beach on weekends and when is this hot, even less. we love the beach as you may have noticed, but we are not that fond of crowds, not to say that we feel our nerves itching on crowded places… like the mall on a sunday afternoon! but today we woke up to a slightly fresher day (thank god!) so let’s see what goes on this week about the weather! today i also wanted to share with you some images of my developed roll of lomography film. as i had shared {here} i wanted to try something different and i bought a lomography redcale 100 120mm film for my holga + another redscale 50-200 35mm film for my yashica. so, i am still waiting on the yashica film (i am lying because the film is still sitting on the shelf, i forgot to bring it to the lab!) but i already have the holga film! and if you are following me on {tumblr} you might have had the first sneak-peeks!
i am not sure if you know the characteristics of lomo cameras, but these toy cameras are really simple (holga is completely made out of plastic, even the lens!), but then with a roll of film inside, magic happens. sometimes it is possible that when you see the results, the word magic is not exactly the first to come to mind, but then… magic appears. in the beginning i felt really frustrated, because i liked most of them, but there were always some that came out completely ruined… or with no image whatsoever. then i started the notebook-project (i wrote down all the settings chose for each one of the photos i was taking) and started to learn a few things. and the results got better!
and one of the magic you can create with lomo cameras are double exposures. being analogue cameras, with no electronics whatsoever, you need to advance film until the next frame (you are also in control of this, which means you decide what you advance in the roll), so to create double exposures, you just need to take two pictures without the advancing the film part in the middle of these two actions. this way, the two images will appear combined. you never know what you will get! but sometimes the results are so creative that are truly amazing surprises (see images 2 & 3 from both sets). and now before i am gone, i will just leave you with a bit of history… how did lomography start?
“lomography began with a fateful encounter in the early 1990s…
…when two students in vienna, austria, stumbled upon the lomo kompakt automat – a small, enigmatic russian camera. mindlessly taking the shot from the hip, and sometimes looking through the viewfinder, they were astounded with the mindblowing photos that it produced – the colours were vibrant, with deep saturation and vignettes that framed the shot – it was nothing like they had seen before! upon returning home, friends wanted their own lomo lc-a, igniting a new style of artistic experimental photography that we now know as lomography!” (source: lomography website)
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images: twiggs’ photography (camera: holga 120cfn, film: redscale 100)
Rita says
It’s really fantastic, that double exposure thing! I have to try it on my old Nokia! Have a wonderful week!
Rita says
Update: I’ve just found out that I can do the double exposure thing on my digital Olympus! yeah!
Rita says
Did I really wrote Nokia??? Oh my! I meant Nikon! This just proves how much I need vacations…