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Whenever a Lomographic boredom occurs, a solution is then formulated immediately in order to supplement the creative troubles we're going through. On this state of urgency, it unexpectedly brings out the hidden brilliance in all of us and we will never be the same again.
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A Color Splash does not only emits the various spiritual forces and compulsions of its Chakras on your shots, it can also make everything you thought flat into a life-like portrait of your world.
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Using film cameras at this time and age is already enough to alienate the person sitting next to us that it will instantly give an impression about us not being ahead of the modern world and still have a lot of things to cope with.
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Shoot from the hip, but mind the composition guidelines. Sometimes you really know to appreciate a pic that has a foreground and a background, a pic that emphasizes the spicy dominant object from the numerous secondary details, a pic that carries a story of its own etc.
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The fisheye lens already provides you with the round shape, so you already have 50% of the work done - now
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Sometimes it is good to be reminded of the most simplest things you can still do that you might have overlooked. Since the stress of those various complexities in our analogue life can be unbearable that it is such a breath of fresh hair when you try to confront and revisit the basics we used to know...
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This tip consists of creating a 35mm effect in while using medium format film. What you will need is a piece of a 35mm film exposed - but without nothing on the film, something to fix the film with, some medium format film and of course a camera as well.
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Out of excitement upon taking your self-portrait, it seems like you got yourself entangled helplessly with that 10-meter cable release you just bought that it's impossible for you to get out of it now. Spare yourself from this embarrassment and let your toes do the job for you the next time around. How so? read on...
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I was bored with always having 9 identical images from my Pop 9 camera and while waiting for a new POP 9+ camera that allows multiple exposures I had the idea of making a multiple exposure film playing with some black tape to darken some of the 9 lenses. The greatest difficulty is to reload the film so that the second exposure matches in the best way possible the first one to recreate the usual 3x3 image grid.
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Instead of ending up stuck inside your bedroom while you snug your favourite pillow under the sheets today, why not turn off that heater, put on some thermal gloves and don't forget to load a roll of film into your LC-A because...
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These dynamic shots we always get from these various multi-lensed cameras such as the Supersampler that can freeze-frame your time and space into four sequential analogue duplicates and rendering them as if it was a very short and sweet two-second Lomographic daydream...
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On taking snapshots, you always rely on whatever there is your immediate surroundings has and it is up to your own intuition to decide when is the right time to press that shutter button of the camera you fully trust, hoping that it will faithfully reproduced as exactly as what you saw in your viewfinder. (Un)fortunately, this is not the case with this camera...
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For some regions are already experiencing heavy monsoons on a daily basis while to some who are living on the other hemisphere of the globe are starting to feel the first chill of autumn to sweep on their lovely cheeks.
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On taking photos at low light conditions especially at night when long exposures are inevitable they say to hold your breath, let your index finger depress the shutter button and just wait for your LC-A's second click.
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By now, you must have heard of the new king of Lomotown- the Lubitel 166+ made its debut recently together with his faithful assistant, the very optimistic Lubikin which exclusively is in charge on any of the camera's internal 35mm affairs thus making the Lubitel a very un-modern but hip, bi-format twin lens reflex camera of its kind.
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If you're one of those who is fascinated by this lens swinging mucho - the "Horizon Perfekt":http://shop.lomography.com/horizon/ - but also daunted by the fact that it takes too wide photos that you think you're not the kind of person to have a face enough to be taken by it...
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Recently, in an effort for the film purists to co-exist with the inevitable digital dominance, we were told about the technicalities of how to digitise your lovely lo-fi lomographs with what they call "PPI and DPI":http://beta.lomography.com/magazine/blog/2008/09/24/digital-grain-pixel-pain and its practical uses in our daily life.
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We always thought capturing an image of reality in life is about seeing everything in its right place, in a manner of photographic perfection. But then again we are always confronted by the fact that life is indeed an imperfect situation we are in...
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Apart from the fact that that this one is the most suggested tip in the Fisheye category, it also reminds me of this certain warning that we are always told, is that to not look directly at the sun through your viewfinder...
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If you think you've seen and tried all the "Holga Modifications":http://www.lomography.com/holga/modifications possible, look again...
