What am I shooting with?

What am i shooting with at the moment? i hear you cry!!! Well that’s a good question. I have only been and gone and got myself a Diana Mini. Yep, another lomo so called ‘toy’ camera, and it’s a little cutie. I’m not going to say too much about it now as i want to save that for when i post some of the shots i’ve been taking with it… sorry.. with her. I’ve already shot a roll of black & white (well, part of a roll (all will be explained))(love the double bracket) and got a couple of shots of colour left before i send that roll to the lab. I look forward to seeing the results and will be posting some soon.

I’ve also won myself another Polaroid 340 land camera. As you’ll know if you’ve been following my blog i already have one of these vintage beauties but have wanted to try and snap up another one in case something happens to it. I’ve also really wanted to get hold of a close up lens kit that was made for the camera but is very hard to find. The good news is, this one i’ve just won comes with that kit. At least i think it does. I’ve not picked up the camera yet! Fingers crossed. I should be picking it up sometime this week.

Anyway, check back for more on those two gorgeous cameras and here’s a photo i shot some weeks ago…

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Shot from the hip…stamatic

Been meaning to post a few shots taken using my favorite iPhone app, Hipstamatic. I still absolutely love it but feel i should be posting more stuff shot on real film so i will concentrate on that over the next weeks.

But for the time being here’s a few hipsta shots i’m really pleased with (apologies if i’ve posted any of these before. i don’t think i have, but i lose track)….

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Trio of trees

Was out yesterday shooting some test shots of a model I’ve not worked with before. It was a nice day so we met in the park of Hatfield House (which was used in the Batman films I believe). I’ve not been to this park before, it was very nice and had some great very old trees, one of which you could climb up the inside of.

So I grabbed a few shots. I’ve not gone through the shots of Naomi (the model) yet so I’ll save them for another post… maybe! They were just tests! (Don’t forget to click ‘Read More’ under the photo to see more… unless you are already on this page!).

doll face

A quick post of a photo without me rattling on about stuff.

I took a few shots of this young lady. She was a great subject and stood very still and didn’t complain once. I think this one was the best shot. I may post more soon.

From the hip

 I’ve been playing with a new photography app on my iPhone for the past few weeks and i have fallen in love with it.

Its called Hipstamatic. So right from the ‘get go’ (what ever that odd Americanism means) it sounds cool. The app turns your camera phone into a funky lomo film camera with a choice of lenses and flashes (or rather flash effects as the iPhone doesn’t have a real flash) and types of colour and black and white film. And it does a very good job of it.