Lomo Fisheye #2 photos

While in Hong Kong we bought a couple of Cameras from the Lomography Store. One was the Supersampler which I've yet to run a roll of film through, and the other was the Fisheye #2.

This was the first time I've used a Film Camera in over 10 years, (the last time I remember was firing a couple of shots off on Mrs Waveys APS camera on our Honeymoon).

The results were mixed and because of the extreme range of the lens a couple came out with fingers and thumbs in the shot.

I tried a few experimental night shots with double exposures, flash (built in, ring flash and external) but they were all dreadful.

Hopefully I've learnt something, but have a lot more to learn


Click here to see this set on Flickr

The Best Thing I've Ever Seen - Number 1

Number 1 in a random series of... um well when I can be bothered really (I'm Pretty Lazy/Busy as you can probably see).

Ok I used to think Blogger Play was really great. This shows random photos/graphics as they are uploaded to Blogger which can be played at various speeds. Some of the photos are obviously personal, some swiped from elsewhere and some graphics. If anything takes your fancy you can click on it and it takes you directly to the blog in question. I believe it was developed as an internal toy for blogger staff to play with.

Go on try it its cool.

However between them Mario Klingemann and Oleg Marakov have created something so awesome that I've officially titled it "The Best Thing I've Ever Seen (until I find the next thing)".

Take Flickr photos that are random, but not completely, as each additional photo shares a tag with the previous one. Do clever flash things so that they fade and warp into each other, as well as other effects such as zooming and scanning. Add a random Ambient soundtrack made up of a series of clever samples that work together to create a never ending song.

What you are left with is an 'Art House' style continuous film which is quite hypnotic in style.

Its called "Islands of Conciousness" and it can be enjoyed by clicking here

Brussels Experiment No 1 - Grand Place using autostitch

Took a whole set of very quick pictures around the Grand Place in Brussels using my Nokias Camera Function. I just made sure they overlapped. Then I just used Autostitch and voila a panorama is produced.



Clearly with a bit more effort (for example taking more pictures of the sky,putting the church in the middle of the panorama rather than at the end and standing in the centre of the square) the results might be brilliant. But as a 5 minute first effort I think Autostitch is well worth further effort.

Ho Ho H0 Green Giant

Ho Ho H0 Green Giant, originally uploaded by WaveyDavey001.

11:52 28 August 2007 28082007028 Taken in Salisbury on a sunny afternoon