Tips and Tricks! Here are the ones you absolutely must read, so we've selected them for you. The main magazine Tipster Section awaits you for more how-to tipster fun.
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★ How to Write with Light - Making it Legible!
If, as a kid, you were told off because of your bad handwriting and, as an adult, this problem got worse... this tipster is for you!
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★ Your Own Macro Studio
Do you want to shoot great macro photos, but the results always look boring? Well, keep on reading. Do not expect that I will show you how to build a real studio, but read on.
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★ Organizing your Analogue Arsenal: From Liquor Cabinet to Lomohome
Adding yet another camera to your collection is always fun and exciting. As your collection keeps growing the problem becomes finding a proper place to store them. My camera collection found a beautiful home in my liquor cabinet.
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★ The Tardis - Making the Dual Filmed Film Box Pinhole Camera!
With my last tutorial, I showed you how to turn an ordinary film box into a super wide angle camera. This time I decided to stack two 35mm film rolls into one camera, exposing them simultaneously resulting in an image split over two negatives! You like the sound of that? Of course you do!
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★ CD Jacket? Photo Frame? A 2-in-1 DIY Present!
I thought about how to make an inexpensive present that would bring back good memories about any place, as well as combine photography, music, and crafts.
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★ Up Close with your LC-A+
I love my LC-A+ but one of its flaws is you can’t get really close to your subject. Luckily there is an easy fix that involves an LC-A splitzer, the right close up filters, and two minutes of your time.
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★ How to Make Homemade Red Scale Film
This is an article introducing how to make homemade red scale film. There are already some fabulous articles about how to make red scale films out there, however I decided to make one with my method. This method keeps film frames in order, and it is useful for EBS (Exposing Both Sides of film) trick as well ☺
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★ Let's 'Cook' the Film: The Recipe of Film Soup!
The idea of film soup, is to allow the film to have chemical interaction with the 'soup', and produce the unexpectedly extraordinary effect for your Lomographs. Since the first film soup ever been 'served', every Lomographer has eagerly recorded down their own recipe and review. In this article, I would like to share my experience with my own secret recipe!
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★ Instax Photo Collage Optical Illusion
Have you ever accidentally pressed the eject button on your instant-back adapter before taking a photo? If so, you have likely been crushed thinking about what an incredible waste it is to have to discard these instant "blanks". Well you no longer have to let them go to waste. You can re-purpose these blanks to create cool photo collages.
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★ Romantic Photoshoot Tip: Get Inspired by Your Favorite Poem
Do something different and do a photo shoot inspired by your favorite poem or song.
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★ A Useful Tip: The Sunny 16 Rule
When we have no light meter, when we have one but forgotten at home, when we do not know how to use it and when we did not download the app, or do not have smartphone: The Sunny 16 Rule is our salvation!
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★ Test : Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner
I'm so lucky that Lomography chose me to test the Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner. I was so thrilled when thinking of trying this new accessory. Will it be easy to use? Let's try.
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★ Developing Film at Home - Alternative #1: Caffenol C
Caffenol C is a very easy to use alternative technique to develop your films at home. According to my research online, this technique can be used for developing both black and white films and colored films but I have only seen the examples of black and white films. There are many different formulas for this technique but I will give you the recipe I found most useful by trying to find the right combination myself.
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★ Double Scan Film Strips Simultaneously
I just tried something new to those old film strips that I have in my box. I’m looking for film strips in a different moment and bring back the old moment I have. After that, I prepared the Scanner and Digitaliza. Let’s get started!
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★ Romantic Photoshoot Tips : LC-Wide Panorama Couple
Are you getting bored with your usual couple shots? Do you want to try something different? Go get your LC-Wide, and let's try a Romantic Panorama Photoshoot!
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★ Shooting Architecture Without Slide Films
Maybe some Lomographer thinks that slide film has great color saturation results. Well, without slide film, you can still make great pictures!!
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★ Turn On Your Lights
Crazy, Imaginative, Cutting Edge and FREEDOM! I choose those words to describe LIGHT PAINTING! Every photographer would like have extraordinary, genuine photos. Light Painting is an autonomous space in the photography world, offering and challenging every photographers to express her or himself with what so called Lights. And i would like share my experiences with LIGHT PAINTING!
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★ Surprise Your Valentine with a Film Canister Love Letter!
If you have some empty film canisters with a little bit of film sticking out, let me show you what else you can use them for (aside from making DIY redscale films), perfect for this season of love!
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★ How a CD Shelf Turns into a Camera Shelf
Because I own tiny, old cameras from flea markets or from the 'Bucht', I wanted to present them for visitors and didn't want that they go to seed in a closet.
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★ How to Scan your 110 Film
In December I was given two 110 films (an Orca B/W and a Color Tiger) at my usual lab. My main concern was not which camera I had to use to shoot them, because when all this 110 comeback started I managed to get a very well preserved Agfamatic in a second-hand market. What really messed with my head was how would I scan such a small film. Finally it wasn't that difficult and now I share my experience...