[Photography] They Talk Of Days For Which They Sit And Wait When All Will Be Revealed.

Getting to grips with using the Polaroid SX-70 I think now. It's not that using it is really different from any other camera (point, focus, shoot); its just those little things about different cameras that you have to remember when using them. With the SX-70, it moves a fair bit when I fire that red shutter button. And I mean a fair bit, the mirror inside creates from big movements. When you add a film of ISO100 I ended up with some blur in my initial shots.

Now, give the camera a good light source and hold it steady and you are working. Currently got it loaded with a nice pack of "Edge Cut" ATZ from TheImpossibleProject. Half a pack in and Im liking the colours. Not as green as I was getting with ATZ, and seems to be sharper too.

This shot is probably my favourite Polaroid I've taken to date. It seems to just work well and came out exactly how I wanted it to.

Another shot from the same day out in Thorndon Woods in Brentwood is below. I like this one too, but I didn't see the tree reaching in to the frame when I took it.

[Imported from old photoblog]

[Photography] Soon You'll Leave and Then I'll Lose You, Still We're Going Round.

Got a large batch of Holga films back from FujiDIS, some of which were not good, some better and some excellent. Looks like my Holga is playing up a bit as a couple of shots look like it was stuck on 'bulb' setting (when I definitely wasn't); on the plus side I'm finally getting some semblance of light-leaks and "lomo" colours. Maybe these beauties need a period of running in? 26 keepers out of 48 shots is not a bad ratio at all.

The carousel was at Kensington Gardens when we visited there a few weeks back. The colours were stunning and I had to get a few shots of it on the Holga. It's not often you see a really nice old fashioned carousel like this.

A Polaroid SX-70 with ATZ version of the shame horse. notice how the colours on the ATZ are really muted, and most of the purple is cancelled out entirely.

[Imported from old photoblog]