Life in a fishbowl

Don’t know if I’ve blogged about it before, but I’ve recently got a new baby! .. Just over a month ago my friend helped me buy it back all the way from Beijing…

Lomo Fisheye 2!

It is a different camera to use, well, cos its a fisheye and I used it as is. I haven’t gotten too creative with it just yet… with the multi-exposures and such, So.. here goes -

Accidental double exposure – of me with my infected eye – which somewhat looks extremely obvious in this shot @_@ and ..blackwattle bay?

my baby cousin, looking oh so street with her hoodie

insane sisters =lol=

the four of us

bf & i at emmilou tapas bar *link*

the family – my baby cousin took this, not bad aye!

baby cousin, again

day trip to illawara fly! (jamberoo) yay for fisheye!

illawara fly <3

t & a

photoclub stall on welcome back day!

<3

Autumn’s Child

My favourite shot from the photo shoot with Lydia just a few month’s ago…

These shots were taken with film; my Canon AE-1 (can’t remember what film I had in there..)

I really love the colours reproduced here, the tones of the film really worked in favour with the atmosphere in this shoot.

Something I’d love to do more.. that is photograph a subject using film, I find it more beautiful and ‘real’ than digital shots.

If anyone is interested in being my subject one lovely afternoon, drop me an email

More shots to come; which has a different ‘feel’.

A walk in the park

One Sunday afternoon, I suddenly had the urge to go for a stroll at the park nearby, and bring along with me my Golden Half to try finish the never ending roll of film.

Well obviously from previous posts, I did get to finish it *yay* So these are the last few shots from my Golden Half roll.

I went during sunset, I think its the most beautiful hour to visit this park, especially when the warm light of sunset reflects off the lakes and the green leaves of the willow trees.

It’s winter, the trees are bare, but the light just makes everything lovely and warm It’s a big park, so I’ve only been to a percentage of it! I might go there again soon

It’s been rainy and gloomy in Sydney this week

for some reason I keep thinking these are ducks, but no! they’re too big to be! I just realised they are actually geese.

Don’t they look lovely? I wish I could zoom with the Golden Half, haha I was a little scared to get too close to them

Scenes in Two

For my 21st Birthday, I was given a new toy camera, the Golden Half from Jeff & CT. I was delighted! Way unexpected to get one for my birthday It’s been on my wishlist for some time and glad I finally got to tick it off!

As you guys know, the thing about Golden Half is as the name suggests, its a half frame camera hence two photos in one shot. (I learned that they are actually 3 x 4 and not half of 6 x 4.. odd.. )

So you would think, you’re saving money from developing, since you’re getting like 48 photos from 24 exposures (I got 51 from my roll of 24) in fact you’re not.

I only just found out from my boyfriend today, that its more costly than I think it is, mainly due to labour.

Not a lot of photo printing machines accept half frames, so the print shop would need to have purchased an extra attachment for their machine that costs about $10,000 alone :O

Other than that, you have to manually feed it into the machine, it took my boyfriend about 20minutes just feeding it in. (Thank god he did it hence I didn’t have to pay for his labour haha, I would’ve felt bad if his parents did it ) And usually they would charge you $1/frame… hence it would’ve costed me $51!!

Maybe only because my boyfriends’ parent’s machines are newer, however if you find a photo shop with older machines that already has that half frame facility, then it would be cheaper… like half the price… I guess you are almost paying for developing 2 rolls of 24 anyways though, or rather getting more out of your one roll of film, so its not -too- bad, just, you’re not saving money by having half frame cameras heh.

Otherwise… in terms of usability…

- I love the size of it, small and compact, easy to hold.

- Build of the camera is really good, the one I have has a rubber exterior, I would say it’s the best built toy camera I own.

- The shutter release button is so small, in a corner, sometimes you gotta be careful you don’t shake when you click it. Such a cute click sound… it’s so subtle haha.

- Has a flash mount on the side of the camera, so you can slip one on I didn’t get around to trying it with flash.

Photo Quality

Hmm I have mixed feelings.

- It’s not as consistent as I’d hope for it to be.

- Some shots are slightly blurry, not sure if I might’ve shook just a bit. But otherwise it is quite sharp.

- I find that the corner has slight blurring

- Vignetting? Not so much… barely.

- Colours are quite nice, not as contrasted as my White Slim Angel,l I had a roll of Kodak 400 in there (came with it).

I won’t even comment on colour, since apparently my bf colour corrected it (which most private photo shops would do anyways), but he didn’t do it for all of them, lazy butt!

Here are a few sets I manually put together with Photoshop, yeah the half frame thing on the machine actually processed each shot as a single frame rather than 2-in-1. If you were to scan your negatives with a film scanner, it would come out as 2-in-1. I’m not sure what happened with mine actually heh. You can judge the photos for yourself I’ve got more to come! I don’t wanna bomb my posts with photos

Seasons of Randwick

Autumn to Winter

One of the first shots I took in Randwick and One of the last shots I took in Randwick

Portraiture

Candids of Lydia I took during UNSW Photo Club‘s Portraiture Workshop

Biennale 2010 @ Cockatoo Island

Yeah indoor shots turned out a bit grainy

How do you guys like what you see so far?

Regardless of how long it took to finish a roll of film, it was nice to use for those ‘Kodak Moments’, capturing candids etc

It’s hard to keep note of what you took last, so you don’t know if you’ll manage to put 2 same scenes next to each other in a photo. Try your luck I guess?

Part 2 will follow tomorrow perhaps

Summer and its smile of light

So I’ve captured Summer, my goal is to capture Winter on Film these holidays.

Can you imagine how beautiful it would be on film? The  muted colours mmm

I took my Canon AE-1 and my Golden half out for a play yesterday at sunset, strolling around parts of Centennial Park (since I live so close to it).

Snapped a few shots, it was lovely because the trees there were a little bare, and some still had leaves on it.. so I guess its ‘just the end of Autumn’.

It was frustrating though, my Canon AE-1 failed to work on some shots I assume the batteries running low so its taking forever for it to ‘recharge’. I might go out again today though, I’m so close to finishing a roll.

I’ve got a few cameras loaded with film, and I’m just slowly trying to finish it all… I’m sure there are alot of old photos on them

On a positive note, I’ve finally gone through the somewhat never ending roll in my Golden Half (the toy camera that splits a 6×4 shot in half, hence you get 2 shots!). I only had a roll of 24 in there, and it took forever! Luckily though, I felt a little urge to do more candid shots with it rather than more composed shots.

I’m going to take it to the boyfriends’ parent’s photo shop to get it processed tomorrow So excited to see results from a new toy camera

I think my affair with film is growing <3 or even with my iphone camera I’m starting to be lazy taking the big baby out (

Happy Sunday, Kiddos!