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Joshua Brown

Joshua Brown

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Hi Guys, being that we're all into visual stuff (assuming so given the nature of film) I thought you guys might be interested in seeing one of my recent photographs.

http://www.lomography.com/content/ppp/missions/pop.php?mission=62&id=115196

I've been going through a bit of a "back to the basics" phase as I realise I've been spending too much time on the technology instead of the content.
In that vein, this picture was taken on a Holga medium format plastic camera. I hope you enjoy it.

-Josh
 
Of course I still want all that. But to be honest, I think all this lo-fi photography is really helping my photographic eye so that when I do pick it up, I focus less on the tech and more on the art.

-Josh
 
Unfortunately that website doesn't do higher rez... odd I know, but I'll upload it here too. Keep in mind this is taken on a plastic camera with a plastic lens. But I think that's part of the charm.

-Josh

p.s. I've attached another picture too.
 
I almost never leave home without my Holga or Diana.

There's something so frightening at first when you're used to DSLR's, you load the film and...wow that was even barely a click. I wonder if the shutter even opened?

:thumbsup:
Lomogrpahy all the way.

Here's a shot taken in Smithers, BC Canada with my Diana with the super wide lens and 35mm back:

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Here's one I took with my Red Holga of an Anonymous protest in London:

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Love your photos Joshua, thank you for posting them.
Remember: Shoot from the hip...
 
Eren, those are fabulous! I like the superwide with 35mm effect. With any luck I'll win a contest I'm entered in and get a diana to tote around too. I'd like one to be 120, and the other 35mm.

-Josh
 
I find that I shoot 35mm Diana more often than the 120 Holga these days. Although the Holga is the fastest to shoot with, I find that the dirt cheap and ubiquitus 35mm processing/CD backup route means that the Diana wins out overall.

Plus there's those lovely sprocket holes :)

Lets endeavor to make this a regular Lomo posting thread, shall we?
 
I see no reason why not. I will usher in the new thread with a few pictures of my own. The first two were developed at home. I love the first especially because of the "classic" look.
-Josh
 
There's something about the crappiness that just captivates me.

Can you guys link to the camera you used on B&H?

I'd love to use some frame inserts of these cameras on some projects, very nice.
 
These are really great. You know, for a movie recently we had to mock up some polaroid photos for a girl's room. After taking them, we realized how amazingly cool they were. They had this unmatchable vintage and "arthouse" quality to them that I couldn't explain. Funny how old technology comes back like that. I wonder if we'll look at Red in 30 years and say "wow, that looks vintage" :)
 
OF the two photographs I put up before, the first was shot with THIS and the second with THIS.

I really like the third colour image you posted there Joshua. The contrast between the central subject and it's surroundings coupled with that delicious vignetting is just fantastic.

It sounds really pretentious but there is something almost unquantifiable about lomo photographs. The pictures result in something more than the sum of it's defects; you end up with timeless imagery that could have originated in 1940 or some weird alternate universe in 2040.

For those of you unfamiliar with what I was talking about in regards to "delicious sprocket holes", here's an example of what I meant:

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Diana F+ with the 35mm back, 20mm fisheye, super wide mask. Shot it way out in the middle of nowhere in Canada so it was some crappy Kodak 800 film.

You should of seen the face of the panicking teenage Pharmasave photo lab employee who was trying to talk me out of asking for my money back because my pictures "had something wrong with them". Hell there's only one lab that I know of in London that retain the sprocket holes in their prints and scans.

I had to take this neg home, cut the frames, and scan them on my standard HP Photosmart scanner (hence all the dirt and dust and grime and the choice to keep it B&W)

If you want to have some fun while developing your sprocket-y lomos, go to some clueless small town lab. They can't screw up the developing side and you get a comedy show as well. :)
 
New pix

New pix

Right, so I got some new film and a new camera (from the 70's) and I've been doing some darkroom processing too. Here's a big from the last week.

-Josh
 
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