Vistas

I added a short set of Belair photos taken in the Swiss alps, using again the 58mm lens for maximum wide-angle effect. Enjoy. 

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Wide Angle Bucharest and London

I recently uploaded a series of photos from London and Bucharest (Romania), all of them taken with the Lomography Belair x 6-12 camera and using a 58mm lens. Contrary to the Berlin set posted earlier, I used the camera primarily to shoot buildings and vistas rather than the more intimate street scenes I captured in Berlin (see my earlier blog post here).

Here is the link: Wide Urban Angles

More of my Belair photos can be found [here].

People Polaroids

I've uploaded a new set of portraits taken with Polaroid cameras. The set also includes several shots produced with Impossible Project's Instant Lab camera, from original shots taken with the iPhone.

The photos date from last summer until now. Most were taken in Berlin, but there are also a few from India and a couple of other places.

Click here to view the set

For more people photographs, click here.

For more instant film photographs, click here.

For more info on the Instant Lab camera, click here to view the Impossible Project site.

Flipboard magazine now available via browser

For a while now Flipboard, the app that allows flipping magazine-style through Twitter, Facebook and other social media entries, has allowed users to 'curate' their own magazines, made available to other users of the app. At the time I set up a magazine entitled 'People in Polaroids', which meanwhile has garnered over 91,000 readers. Until recently, these magazines were only available within the app, but recently Flipboard made them accessible via browsers as well. If you don't use the app, here is the link to the web based version:

https://flipboard.com/section/people-in-polaroids-bii15w

Enjoy.

Wide-Angle Urban Poetry

I recently uploaded the second batch of photographs taken with the new Lomography Belair x 6-12 camera. Unlike with the first batch, the Brighton pics, I had with these rolls figured out how to hold the camera to properly format the images, which, guess what, vastly improves the results.

All of the photos were taken in Berlin between January and April, 2014. My first approach to shooting with the camera was to take advantage of the camera's ability to shoot panoramic 6x12mm and 6x8mm exposures, and the 58mm lens' wide-angle capacity, to take wide panoramic cityscape pictures. Later, I changed tactics: rather than take more panorama shots, I went for close-ups, thus being able to take in complete scenes and/or objects from close proximity, which allows both for a certain intimacy while providing the 'big picture' at the same time. Coupled with both the camera's and the lens' inherent distortions, the results are to, for lack of a better word, poetic...

Overall I'm vey pleased with the Belair, despite some technical, or rather mechanical, issues. Of these I plan to write later as I'm yet to write up a review of the camera. 

Here then is the link: Wide-Angle Urban Poetry

See also Brighton Winter for more Belair shots. 

Brighton by Belair

I spent this New Year's in Brighton in South England. I had just before gotten me a new camera, the Lomography Belair x 6-12 camera. It's a medium format camera, using 120 film. It comes with exchangeable lenses and settings that allows one to shoot either 6x6, 6x8 or 6x12 exposures. I did not have a chance to test the camera before leaving for Brighton, so the films I shot there were pretty much my test run. I decided to use the 58mm lens and either the 6x8 or 6x12 mm size settings to take full advantage of the camera's panorama abilities.

My experiences with the camera are mixed, and I will be posting a review later to explain. Suffice to say at this moment though is that overall I'm happy with the results, especially considering the less than perfect weather for most of my stay there. Some of the images are formatted not quite right as the shift between what you see in the visor and the result is quite considerable. Also a couple of rolls did not roll up properly, so there is some light leakage on the last exposures on those roll.

Having said all that, here then is a selection of the best Belair pics from a few moody, wintry days in Brighton: click here to view. 

Lines and Light

As you might have guessed from previous postings, I like to photograph buildings. Often, I find a building at it's most fascinating when, on sunny days, it becomes clear how the architecture plays with light, be it in the way it reflects light,  breaks it, or lets it through. When lines and shapes are enhanced by light and by shadows. 

I just put up a new Polaroid set which reflects this, Lines and Light. The photographs were taken in Berlin, in Metz, France (some in the Centre Pompidou), and a couple in London.

Enjoy.