April 8, 2014

GOT SOME FILM BACK LAST WEEK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AGES. GOT IT SCANNED AS WELL. OH ALSO HELLO ;)

Teenage Lomography

Lomo, a set on Flickr.

Monthly post, check out my flickr.

Everything I Do I Did When I Was Years Ago

LC-A colour neg, walmart film, optical print

Colour Printing

Some prints I made in Colour Printing at Langara College, spring 2010.
It looks as though this box of paper had expired before I used it as the borders are... off-white. I don't mind it though, or I've accepted it's flaws, maybe it's even a little bit anti-aesthetic. :?)

Spinach and beans for dinner FTW!

BAKED, lomo lc-a colour neg, walmart brand film, c. 2002

untitled, nikon f5 w/ 35mm lens colour negative, c. 2010

Not Offensive

Erron walking around what used to be industrially wasted space probably around 2001. Lomography. Film. Kelowna. Rutland. Teenagers. Summer. Etc.

20,000 Leagues Under The Lomo

Not a horror novel. Oh well. This could also be called Tarzan of the Lomo, or A Lomo of Mars.

Photography isn't a Hobby.
Photography is Real.
Photography isn't a Job.
Photography is a Hobby.
Photography isn't Real.
Photography is a Job.
Photography is isn't, isn't it?
Photography is isn't.

Frankenstein's Lomo

I was a Teenage Were-Lomographer

Abstract Photography and I

While abstraction in photography is certainly more than 100 years old, probably about as old as photography itself, abstraction is still a fairly new deal in the grand scheme of arts. With flickr groups dedicated to abstract photography (here) and the lomograph gaining popularity every year, abstract photography seems to be ready for some breakthroughs to shake it up, because unfortunately so many people are grasping for labels for their work that lots of what gets called abstract photography actually isn't that abstract at all. My biggest problem with most of this is a tendency to call an image abstract because it has limited depth of field and was taken with a macro lens (or micro for you nikonians out there). That's WEAK SAUCE! Or weak tea. Whichever you don't prefer. I don't have a problem with recognizable shapes within an abstract photo, as in Paul Strand's photo from a previous post. I don't know exactly what my problem is. I guess I have a bee in my bonnet right now.
Anyways, last week I was swinging my camera by it's strap and tripping the shutter via timer mode to get these images. These were all exposed at f22 for 1/30 to 1/15 of a second while whipping the camera around as fast and recklessly as possible. The last image isn't mine it's by Paul Strand, and it's AMAZING.