i heart lomography
One of the things I’ve really enjoyed about this photography class is the darkroom. I like monkeying around with chemicals. (Surprise!) I like taking imperfect negatives and producing interesting prints. It’s a lo-fi old-school Photoshop in black-and-white film, and I’m loving every second of it.
I decided, in the midst of my class assignments, that I could spare one of my rolls of film to try out my Lomo Action Sampler camera, a Christmas present from many moons ago that - until today - had gone completely unused, mostly because I didn’t want to pay for film developing. With all the materials now on hand… what the heck, right?
And lo, I’m completely in love with the insane levels of low-tech going on here. If you’ve never used one of these things, it’s basically a glorified pinhole camera - within a shiny plastic casing, a spinning wheel shutter exposes 4 different fixed lenses on a single exposure of film. There’s a (crappy) flash, but no focus, no adjusting, no macro, nothing but point, click, and see what happens.
So, from top to bottom, I have (1) an indoor shot in bright light but no flash, (2) an outdoor shot on a cloudy day, and (3) an outdoor close-up shot, flash fired. Every single shot was horribly exposed, which makes me very glad that I’m making my own prints, because I know how to work around that by now. I will definitely be playing with this more, in better weather, and seeing what sort of fun images I can get from it, before I don’t have access to the darkroom anymore.
And now I TOTALLY understand the cult following these little cameras have, because the unpredictability of them is wicked crazy cool.










