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I got my first 3 rolls of film developed from my lomo cameras and was fairly impressed with the results. I think I had about a 50% success rate of photos tuning out how I intended. Some turned out but were very underexposed and some didn’t work out at all. Oh well, I guess that’s what practice is for!

Here are some of my favourites:

Although double exposed this one turned out pretty cool. The photo is well exposed and quite sharp. I had quite good success with the black and white film, now I want to get as good with the colour film so I can get some of that high contrast vivid colors action. This was taken with white flash indoors, 400 asa black and white film.

Not usual for me to like a photo of myself but I think this one is pretty cool. Colour film + red flash.

Pity there’s a light leak on the right edge of this photo (this leak seems to recur quite frequently through my first roll so maybe a loaded the film wrong. Used the fisheye lens for this one and I like what I see!

Colours in this one are nice. Not such sharp focus so hopefully I can work on that with my next few rolls.

My conclusions…

The Holga gave a lot better results than the Diana+ so I think I need a bit more work with that one. The Black and white film gave some nice results and seems to be a bit more forgiving than the colour film. I like the effects achieved with the colour flash on the holga and definitely want to do more with the fisheye lens - it’s pretty special.

If anyone’s interested I used Spectrum Imaging for development. I’d highly recommend them, the service was really good and extremely fast (posted on Saturday, on my doormat on Tuesday). They’re the cheapest I’ve found - with processing, printing (4×4 prints) and scanning to CD for £6 per film. I’ll definitely use them again but might hold back on the printing and selectively choose which ones I want printed from the CD and send them back separately for that as my photos seem to be a bit hit and miss at the moment!

I’ve just finished packing to go to Glasgow for the weekend and in the midst of it all managed to make an entry for one of the current Utata projects.

The project is Take Two : Before & After. Take Two is a new series of projects where the entry must be a diptych (a diptych is two photographs presented together to show opposites, some story or just simply because they look cool together). You can interpret the project title as an how you wish, the title for the first project being Before & After. I think this is quite an open title and can apply to a lot of things. My entry is before and after packing my bag for the weekend.

Before & After : Packing, originally uploaded by faithmonsoon.

The project will be published on February 19th so I wonder if I will come up with any more ideas before then.

Diptychs are fun!

Is it Christmas already??, originally uploaded by ebotunes.

A new year, a new type of photography for me.

Back in November I bought myself a set of the limited edition White Stripes lomography cameras.

The set includes a Jack Holga and Meg Diana+ plus loads of cool accessories.
You can read all about the full kit and accessories on the Official White Stripes website.

I finished my first roll of film in the holga at the weekend and have a few left each of the rolls currently in the holga and diana+. Hoping to get all 3 rolls finished and sent off for development very soon.

Looking forward to seeing the results from my step back into film photography…