Sunflower

A few months ago I pulled out several of my toy cameras and started shooting film again. Unfortunately, this came with the realization that film processing ain't what it used to be. Getting my film processed the way I want, when I want is a thing of the past, now my non-traditional processing requires mailing my film to a far away lab and hoping for the best. At first I was frustrated by this, but over the course of the last few weeks I have been experimenting with different methods of shooting and transferring images. While I still like to keep the digital side to a minimum, I am using more and more digital transfer and acquisition methods. Whike I am waiting for my film to be processed and scanned, here is a digital image taken with a frankenstein version of my camera.

Morning Sunflower- Nikon dslr with a holga lens and a blue soft surround filter.

Day 7- Digital Manipulation

A 10-hour workday preceded by 3 hours of sleep left me too tired and grumpy to do much creating so I used a bit of my time today to work on my Photoshop skills, mainly creating and using actions. I have a little experience using actions for things like layouts and mass editing, but not with creating effects which is what I worked on today. I worked with several images, but I love the way these chickens came out. The goal was to get a Lomo effect and I think it's a good start. I tried creating "light leaks" around the edges, but they felt too forced so I removed them.