Perhaps now is a good time to start moving my photography forward, to start again with some things, leave some things behind and look to a snap happy future. I have sadly fallen out of love with my DSLR camera, I find it easier and simpler to take a photo on my phone, either upload it straight to a chat conversation and Facebook, or put it through Instagram for the world to have an opinion on.I found this photo on the National Geographic website apparently this photo was taken on a phone camera. This sounds like a good challenge to me! I have loads of photos of flowers on my camera, but are any of this quality? I am not too sure!
I think though, that I may have found something to get a little excited about. After hearing a talk from a chap at the Ashmolean about lomography, I decided that a sprocket rocket might be the way forward, but one of the issues with this is where could I get the film developed. That would understand that I wanted everything developed even the stuff that was printed over the sprocket holes? With high street photography stores rapidly disappearing, it leaves me a little stuck. Whilst pondering this dilemma I came across a concept that I had read about on the BBC news website, being able to build your own camera. Ok, so I know that people can (if they know what they are doing) build pin hole cameras, but this concept for me went a step further. When researching the sprocket rocket I came across the Konstruktor, and the different parts of the Konstruktor. That was it, order placed. One lomo camera on its way to me, in pieces, for me to stress over, meet up with friends over and find a film for.
This is my photography fresh start!
Wow, that's quite a leap! You're far braver than I.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, a couple of things you may not be aware of: If you've got the Google+ app installed on your phone, you can set it to automatically upload every picture you take, in full resolution & quality, to Picasa (or, what is now known as Google+ pictures). Also, you can now get a wireless lens/sensor product from the likes of Sony. It's basically a camera, but there's no viewfinder, screen or settings. Instead, you use your phone as the viewfinder, etc. This gives you the instant fun of your phone & sharing to the Internet, etc. with the advantages of a large lens, DSLR sensor, optical zoom and even the ability to take pictures remotely from anywhere within wi-fi range.
If that sounds interesting, check out the cheap & functional Sony QX10 or the slightly more powerful QX100.
I have seen and read about the new wifi lens, I think it is really exciting stuff. I would consider getting one, depending on price. I would love to have a try with one. Feel like I am currently collecting cameras, opps...
Delete1 DSLR
1 SLR
2 compacts
1 GoPro
1 Phone
and soon
1 DIY camera
(I really wouldn't like every picture I have ever taken published on the world wide web, I tend to have quite a few attempts at a shot before being slightly happy with it)