Hellooo! That right there is our photo of the week, chosen by people that come to the Photo Share Podcast website. You too can participate by coming to the website to vote. The photo this week was contributed by Andy Sunley. Thanks for this and all your contributions!
This week we had part two of our interview with Chris Seufert, who is a regular contributor to the PSP Flickr group and a professional photographer (really, an all around media creator). One thing that’s interesting is how hard it’s to follow the Flickr community guidelines, that in many ways these are contradicted by some of their own policies found on other pages.
Stay tuned for next week when we have an interview like you’ve never heard on the PSP, when we talk to someone who was put on restriction for not following the guidelines . . . even though she was.
Our question of the week, which you can answer on the PSP Flickr group, is Do you ever use your cell phone for taking photos, and if so how do you share these photos?
Thanks to everyone for listening, we’ll talk to you next week!
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I was really pleased that my photo was choosen from some stiff competition to be photo of the week.
The story goes……
I had just found out about a lab in Liverpool that developed black and white film, not C41 process black and white film (eg, Ilford XP2) but real black and white film.
So I decided to load a roll in my Lubitel 166B. This is a “Twin Lens Reflex” camera made by the Russian firm Lomo. Anyone farmiliar with this camera will know that it is not easy to compose a shot using it’s viewfinder. It takes practice and , more often than not, pure luck.
The Lubitel is also fully manual, there are no automatic features on it at all.
My plan was to load a roll into this retro Russian beauty, park at Brunswick Dock in Liverpool and shoot the roll on the walk to the lab. As enthusiasts of the 120 film format will know, you don’t get as many shots on a roll as you would with 35mm. This cam takes 12 6×6 pics per roll. So it was not difficult to finish during the short walk.
This was the first pic I took. I popped in to say hello to a friend who lives in the same building as me and snapped the corner of the flat he shares with his girlfriend.
If memory serves me correctly, I opened the apature to f4.5, which is the widest the Lubitel will go, and used a shutter speed of 1/60.
The image was scanned by the lab and has not been edited in any way at all. I do not even possess Photoshop.
If I was to sum this shot up in two words they would be “happy accident.” The other shots that I’d planned did not turn out as good.
Thats the thing with shooting with retro cameras, you get a result from an unexpected source, if at all.
Thanks to everyone who voted for me.
If you wish to look at my Lubitel set on flickr and leave comments I’d be glad to hear from you. Follow this link. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_sunley/sets/72157601901628507/
For genral info about the Lubitel 166B go to http://www.lomography.com/lubitel
I picked this camera up for less than £5 on e-bay, so they are out there and cheap.
Thanks Andy! I have to say, I am gaining more and more respect for film photographers who have to make every shot count. Your willingness to explore and learn older technologies is quite impressive. I recently came across a Canon T50 that I forgot I even owned. It has a program setting and I am still intimidated by it!
Congratulations on winning our poll and thank you for giving us some background on your winning shot!