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Ektachrome
These are from the first roll of E-6 slide film I ever cross-processed and I was quite thrilled with some of the results. Kodak Ektachrome has since become one of my favourite films. It’s a shame that Kodak no longer produces it. These three shots are of the Grey Wolf enclosure at the Calgary Zoo. Unfortunately, the wolves were nowhere to be seen.
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Canadian Wilds
These are from the Canadian Wilds exhibit at the Calgary Zoo.
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Icy Stream
A few shots of the icy stream running through the raptor enclosure at the Calgary Zoo, February 2014.
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Around the ‘Net #2
I come across so many great websites on the Internet that relate to film photography that I thought I would share them with you in a series I call Around the ‘Net. Let’s start with a good resource for film photographers. I find this website invaluable:
This is a fantastic website to find camera manuals for nearly every camera in existence—for free!
When you acquire a vintage camera, it rarely comes with the original manual. I’ve downloaded all of the missing manuals for my cameras from this site and it’s been extremely helpful in understanding how my cameras work. Even if you do have the manual, it’s handy to download a pdf version from this site. I keep pdf copies of all my camera manuals on my phone for reference. I never know when I may need it for something.
I also use this site when I’m researching a camera I’m thinking of buying. Checking the manual often gives me a good idea of the camera’s features and ease of use. It also often lists accessories I may want to track down and purchase as well. Along with reading reviews, watching YouTube demos and looking at Flickr photos taken with a camera, I find the manual a necessary part of the research process before deciding to buy a camera.
Mike Butkus spends a lot of his personal time and money to acquire camera manuals and post them on his website so that we can download them for free. And it’s greatly appreciated! If you can, please donate to help him keep this site going. I did. And I’m sure sure you’ll find this site as indispensable as I do.
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Feeding Time for the Great Grey Owl
I snapped a number of shots in the raptor enclosure on my Calgary Zoo photo walk. The owls were often hidden and therefore hard to photograph, but I managed to get a shot of a Great Grey Owl. Scattered all about the enclosure were dead chicks for the owls to eat. It may seem cruel at first, but you have to remember, owls don’t eat bird seed.
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Rocky Mountain Goats
I managed to snap a few more photos of the Rocky Mountain Goats at the Calgary Zoo. This time I loaded my Olympus Trip 35 with Kodak ProFoto XL 100 and snapped away. These were developed at my local lab and then scanned by me using an Epson Perfection V600 Photo.
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First Photos at the Zoo
I signed up for a photo walk at the Calgary Zoo and brought along my Olympus Trip 35 and a few rolls of film. These are the first photos from that day.
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The Famous Five at Olympic Plaza
These photos of the Famous Five at Olympic Plaza didn’t turn out the way I thought they would. I kept struggling with the zone focusing on my Olympus Trip 35 and sometimes forgot to set the focus altogether. I was still learning about composition so really these photos were just point and shoot with no forethought about composition at all. One day, I plan to go back and re-shoot this sculpture.
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Around the ‘Net
You may have been wondering why this film photography blog is titled Going Lomo. Lomo, short for Lomography, is a style of photography using vintage and toy cameras. Lomo photos are often characterized by saturated colours and vignetting around the corners. The ‘Lomo look’ can be achieved by cross-processing E-6 slide film in chemicals meant to develop C-41 colour negatives. This look is often replicated digitally using apps such as Instagram, but film is where it started. Lomography is what inspired me to pick up a film camera again. It’s fun to see what can be created by using old cameras and vintage film!
This is the first post in a new series I’m calling Around the ‘Net. The focus of this series is to share the many wonderful resources on film photography found around the Internet. Here’s a few to get you started. These three webpages are a good place to learn more about Lomography:- Did the Lomo camera save film photography? – This article by Stephen Dowling gives a short introduction to Lomography and its beginnings.
- Analogue Photography 101 – A good primer on Lomography
- The 10 Golden Rules – A manifesto of sorts for the Lomographer
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Buildings
I took these shots of the Calgary Tower and the Epcor Centre from the Olympic Plaza in February 2014 using my Olympus Trip 35 loaded with a roll of Four Corner B&W 400 film. I’ve since decided that this film doesn’t give me the blacks that I want. I prefer darker blacks and greater contrast in my photos. These shots from my second roll are not as crisp as my first photos taken with Ilford Delta 100.
