the start of something - Analoge Photography

Within the 1st week at uni i was already personaly looking into photographic techniques. I already had sorted out some chemicals for developing known as C-41 a very popular set of chemicals/methord of developing colour negative film. I also got some bathing tanks, thermometer,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-41_process

Within the second week i knew that my dissertation was on lomography so i could start producing some images with my camera.

I have also spend close to £600 on camera equipment using ebay.co.uk

-LC-A
-FM2 Nikon Film SLR
-Lomo Fish Eye 2
-Nikon coolscan V

From here i was able to explore analogue photography for both my disseration, to allow me to understand the colour of lomography, but also to gain ideas for my studio work.

Working in analog format i have learnt that things are not always perfect but alot of the time its this characteristic which makes something beautiful about the image which is where some of my ideas began to develop from.

Here is a slide show of about 50 images (50 images on 20th novemember 2007) taken over the last 6 weeks.
I have used a range of cameras and they have all be developed using C-41 processes and digitaly scanned by myself.

cameras used are

WOCA-NF1 - which cost me £10 New from china off ebay.
Lomo Fish Eye 2 - bought off ebay New for £45, this gives a 170degree angle on life.
LC-A - i got this referbished off ebay for about £100 it was made in USSR in the 70's and has formed a cult following of people and a socity which has created a lifestyle and a movement in photography. My dissertation is currenly titleded "lomography and its cult following" BBC's lomography documentry helped me understand this cult so well.

Scanner used was a Canon Flatbed which has a medium performance, which made me decided to get the Nikon Coolscan V priced around £450 - 500, but non of the images were scanned using the new scanner.

I am still learning with film, it takes about an 40mins to develop each roll and then another hour or two to dry. Scanning take a following hour so its takes about 1hour 40mins to get 36 images. This is the down side to analoge as apose to digital where i could fire off 500 shots and copy them stright to the computer. An example of this is the burst shot idea i had and greated 2 small videos/animations.


Most of these shots are taken in a "lomo style" which i have been researching. The image quality is via the cameras, the scans are with no digital aids.

At a review 2 weeks ago my photo of a eastern kitchen was said to be

- blured
- a kitchen or bar
- looked digitaly edited

which is what i would like to look at in terms of how this style relates to digital photography

Here is slide show of my lomophotography.