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Yes yes yo! The enthusiastic murmurs coming from the film lab are indeed brought to you by the rat-recruits from the community, who threw on their lab coats and took the risk! In our previous episode we called out for Lomographers who had special skills in experimenting with film, and we were met with a vigorous response! This special edition features a new batch of tried-and-tested tips from the community, and is specially approved by our Film Lab Rat leader Mandi! |
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We’ve all tried drawing mustaches and whiskers on friends’ photos, even blackening a tooth or dotting their faces with ink-acne. ePug has found cool ways to use ink on photo, and we like it! Method:
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Bleach isn’t just for keeping your whites spankin’-clean. alexdanielspringer reveals the secret power of this mighty fluid with his tip! “I’ve been experimenting with treating films in different chemicals recently for a university project. There were particularly interesting results with bleach.” See what he has done to his childhood photos! “I scanned the old negative and then re-photographed off the screen with a new film, then put THAT film in bleach.” Check out his method! |
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Zorgzorg is a Polaroid enthusiast, and now he’s dishing out some of his top tips!
“Sweet Heat” This is a hot idea to turn your Polarejects into insta-weird art! Play with fire and you’ll get burned, so please, proceed with caution. “The Peel Appeal” Bored and feel like making art out of your Polaroids? This one requires some Acetone-action and some cutting and peeling, and is another option to save your Polaroid rejects! Follow this link to find out how zorgzorg created these Polaroid effects! |
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Yes, we are heading back to the roots and breathing new life into an old community favorite - Film of the Fortnight! We have two offers that you can’t resist. |
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Fine-grained, speedy, and sharp, this film is perfect for shooting portraits. It is specially made to preserve the natural color balance of your images, so it works superb even under mixed lighting conditions! 5 films for 15 EUR/USD 10 films for 25 EUR/USD http://shop.lomography.com/go/?where=shop&pro=mfn |
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Offering top-notch image quality, this fast emulsion works great even in low-light. A good choice for photojournalism, or indoor sports photography.
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We are doing experiments of our own by constantly adding new interactive features to our test site. Now, as well as leaving comments on blog posts, you can now upload some of your own shots to our film and camera review sections, Film Class and Camera Club and submit your self-written reviews. Also when there is a competition or rumble on the blog you will be able to upload photos directly to it. If you find something interesting on the site you can now use our ‘share’ feature to spread the word to friends on your favourite social networking sites. http://beta.lomography.com |
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As always, we are on the lookout for nice and tasty tricks from the community. Send in your experiments (with pictures, please!) to: manfred.steininger@lomography.com, and we’ll see if your tips get his nod of approval. Besides fame and a grand round of applause, we are giving away 20 piggy-tokens of appreciation! | |
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