Emma just bought a Lomo Diana camera. Incredibly simple and easy to use. Manual pre-focus, one shutter speed. They’re famous for the poor image quality, light leakage and vignetting.
A few examples of Lomo photographs here on the UK Lomo Flickr group.
Would love one of these but thinking of getting one with the fisheye lens.
Went through a bit of a milestone the other day. I’ve just gone through over 10,000 shots on the D70! Obviously there’s no way that all of these have been any good but it’s an interesting milestone. I got the camera last Dec (2007) and have learnt so much it’s insane. When I got it I was working on the program mode and just hoping for the best. I’ve got more familiar with it over the year and I’m just starting to get comfortable using it on full manual setting.
I used to be really in to photography around 16 and started an A level in but never finished it due to my GNVQ taking all my time. I’ve owned a few cameras since but enjoyed this one so much more. I think the jump to digital has really helped. The ability to see your mistakes on screen instantly and also have all the aperture and shutter settings embedded in the file has made a huge difference. It’s no longer expensive to try out options which gives you so much freedom.
Anyway, I’ve really enjoyed it and learnt so much. Here’s to another 10,000 (better) shots.
Playing around with some of the Flickr toys on the bighugelabs website. This mosaic is quite fun.
Went down to the Skatepark today to have a go at setting up some sports shots. I spent the last few days reading up on how to balance ambient lighting and flash. Hard to understand but seemed to work out ok today. Hard to find a suitable place to shoot from as I wanted to protect the flashes so settled on the top of the bowl. First time I’ve had the camera on full manual. Shot around 250 shots today but got the final edit down to around 40. Pretty pleased with the shots I grabbed today.. only room for improvement obviously. So much to learn my head hurts. Full set of images here…
