I’ve been running plenty of rolls of film through my Mini Diana F+ over the past few months. I’ve been quite experimental with black and white and colour film, and some colour rolls I have cross processed. Some shots I’ve structured the composition, but many have been just quick snaps without thinking about it too much. This spontaneity is what the principles of lomography are all about, which I like because they are more about a creative philosphty rather than technical stuff. Shooting spontaneously puts a smile on my face, but has drawn me to notice some of what I call ‘happy accidents’. This is where you capture something great unintentionally. When scanning my film after developing, I discover what I have actually got on the film. Sometimes what you hoped for doesn’t work out as desired, but a lot of the time wonderful things present themselves, sometimes bold, sometimes subtle.
Check out some of my photos below. Click on the images for an enlarged view:
Remember, these were taken on a tiny camera, with a fixed plastic lense, and often the film likes to scratch as it’s wound along…

These shots were taken using lomography’s 100 iso redscale film.

These two were taken with the standard 100 iso ‘lomo’ film from lomography, which has good colour saturation and contrast.

These last three shots were taken with Rollei “crossbird” 200 iso film. This is print film put through a regular C41 negative process. It did weird things, but I like some of the results. Different delicate bits of detail present themselves, along with gritting celluloid grainy, blobby bits like on the edges of the frames.

These are taken with Kodak TMAX 400 iso, black and white negative film. There’s something about the shots that I really like. They’re a little soft, and not with the full range of contrast, but there’s an abstract appeal I think. They almost look like really old paintings.

I’ve felt a little out of touch with my drawing of late and haven’t been able to devote much time towards it. Sometimes I like to get back into the groove by doing some life drawing, still life, or in this case just some drawings from pictures that I like. Some may discredit this, because [...]

A test adapting Jeff Raglus’s graphic painting style to an animated loop, created in Flash.

A python script to batch watermark your images, adding your personal identity.

A little experiment creating a vector based portrait in Illustrator, then taking it further in Photoshop.

I just heard that The Lost Thing won the Short Film category at this years ‘Australian Effects and Animation Festival’ Awards, held in Sydney. There were 12 films in contention for this award, most of which I unfortunately haven’t yet seen. I look forward to checking them all them out in time. It’s important to [...]

Last Sunday the awards night was held for the short films of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). It was at the end of a weekend of shorts programs, that showed almost 100 films in total. There were films from all over the world in many different styles, including documentary, fictional, experimental and animation. Melbourne [...]

The “Sneaky Rafter” eight legged character returns in a new piece of animation for Nelson Beer.

Just got news that The Lost Thing was runner up to the winning film Angry Man under the category of best animated short, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. I haven’t seen Angry Man yet, but am looking forward to catching it at a festival somewhere -It looks very intriguing indeed. It’s great to [...]

The Lost Thing, animated short film wins Best Short Animation at the Sydney Film Festival.