Lomography

Posted by on Jul 18, 2011 in Art, Photography | 0 comments

So, I was walking down Queen St West on Saturday and what store should I discover? Lomography.  What is Lomography? Well, I think it’s best if I just quote what the website says:

“Lomography is a Magazine, a Shop, and a Community dedicated to analogue photography. It 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 shots 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!”

So, that’s that! I bought a Diana Mini with flash and gels and also grabbed two Fuji Superia 400 35mm expired film! Sometimes, analogue is more fun!

Glamour in the Skies

Posted by on Nov 20, 2010 in Photography | 0 comments

I remember watching Catch Me If You Can and thinking how exciting flying must have been in the 50s, 60s and 70s… now, we can’t bring any liquids, we have to take off our shoes, we wait in security lines for hours and recently, we even get the equivalent of an anal probing. Ah, to be back in the days when you could call flight attendants ‘stewardesses’… *sigh*

Check out this site which has a great collection of pictures from the 40s to the 70s… a better time for airlines and hot pants!


Stereographics (Small Planets Or Ultra-Wide Fisheye)

Posted by on Nov 1, 2010 in Art, Photography | 0 comments

Heiwa4126 has a great collection of stereographic photos which are basically panoramas and ultra-wide fisheye images. Most of the pictures were shot in Tokyo and if you’re interested in making your own, Flickr user gadl has a page with his own pictures and some instruction.