Paris in Film: Lomo Redscale XR

Once again I used my Lomography Redscale XR film in my superheadz camera - I love finding combinations that really work together and I was very excited about taking these two to Paris with me.My favourite thing about this film is the variety of the results and how it is a true reflection of the light around you. It varies between soft and warm when there isn't as much light to bright and vivid when the sun is gleaming around you. As you can see, the weather on the days I used this film greatly improved, so the contrasts became much stronger.

Camera: Superheadz Wide and Slim Yellow Peace
Film: Lomography Redscale XR
Location: Paris, France

Photo Meditations...

"I learned that you do not need to be published in books or magazines, or belong to a certain association, or even earn money from your images, to call yourself a photographer. All you need do is hold a camera in your hands with the intention of creating. Recording beauty and decay. Capturing memories. Documenting a scene. Telling a story. Catching a likeness. Exploring your inner world in pixels and film." ~ Susannah Conway.

This time next week I will be starting Susannah Conway's Photo Meditations E-Course and I can not wait. I've been in a bit of a blog rut and I haven't even felt like taking as many photos lately so I'm hoping that doing this will give me the little nudge I need to find my photo and blog mojo again. Hurray!!

p.s. This is my favourite diana mini photo from Paris, the statues were either side of the stairs and I thought they belonged together somewhere instead of being apart... I'm rather proud of it.

Memories of sunshine on the beach...

Now thats its cold, windy and freezing outside, memories of sunshine and Summer (and warm hands, I miss having warm hands) seem so far away...

I've been carrying these photos in my bag since my birthday weekend away and I've only just got around to scanning them.

I think memories of sunshine on the beach with my family are my favourite.

A Paris sunset in X-Pro

After experimenting happily with Lomography's X-Pro Chrome film (see here for blog posts), I decided to order some of the Lomography X-Pro film to take to Paris as well (I mentioned it briefly here)

I was still undecided with this film at first, it is very green, and generally I'm not a massive fan of green. However, these photos of the sunset completely changed my mind, pretty much because, the sunset looked nothing like these photos! Haha.

I knew that cross processing films (developing slide film with c-41 chemicals and vice versa) could create a massive colour shift in the results, but the X-Pro Chrome results are very subtle and these results are not subtle at all in comparison. I'm still amazed by how different that the colours are and also that I could never have predicted that this is how they would have turned out.

I'm so glad that I've started to experiment with different films in my cameras, it adds a new level and challenge to my photography and I'm really enjoying the results.

Camera: Superheadz Yellow Peace
Film: Lomography X-Pro 200
Location: River Seine, Paris.

p.s. If you're wondering what the colours actually look like, you can see Thomas's photos here.