For a photography project for lauren we went on a journey to the city. which isn't really a long journey like going to the countryside but whatev.
i want to do a series of black and white photos of friends of mine's faces so i can stick them on my wall and bask in their beauty :) but i never get round to doing it... lauren's my first and only subject so far...
but i'll get there... it'll be the next amazing post (after the one im about to post after this). heh.
strangely enough there was an old school car show going on in fed square as well, so this was one of the cars there... not so subliminal advert for RACV eh?
but the cars were all so beautiful and shiny, and for once were on display to be taken photos of :)
and then we went through these alleyways that smell liked hobbo pee. it was incredible, one of the first shots lauren took she got this crate illuminated by a ray of light in the darkness, midair. ... it was one of those moments that made you question a divine presence.
thats the alleyway>>>
i got all these funny light leak-like things on left top corner of these photos for some reason...
and this super wall of gold painted pipes... whose colour you can't appreciate in the photo.. but you can in your imagination! yay.
it was quite cool.
its crazy how creative street art can be... alot of its not just graffiti scribbles. like al was telling me the other day bout this - remember those numbered colour-in-this-part-this-colour books when you were small? - not a very good explanation but if you get it, it was like that on a wall and the different parts were meant to be coloured with bits of chewed gum.
tots gross but it would look mad awesome no?
Friday, June 5, 2009
a sad day for aspiring artists
i have terrible luck with old chinese ladies in photography shops. first one i went to i was all excited cos its a new photo developing place opened down the road, and the guy id talked to before said they processed 120 film for $20 so i was all like WOOH don't have to travel all the way to the city to get these developed... anywho, went back there to get the photos developed and the lady there ( i think she was the wife of the guy who served me before) was basically like no. no we don't do it. and then proceeded to give me a lecture about how crap my plastic holga is and how i should buy a new digital one... in short, i'm living in the stone age.
which my parents tell me everyday.
so i laughed and went to the city. to the place where i normally get my photos printed. and the chinese lady there was like no. no we don't do black and white (which i needed at the time) nor do we do slide film (which was the only other thing i needed) but they did cross processing so i put my film in for that. and then all the photos came out shit, completely burnt out, like the photo of darren (in the middle) but like 50x more saturated... the only good photo that came out of that lot was the car one down the bottom and that still looks like a cartoon... but thats not the ladies fault, it was mine for putting the film in for cheaper crossprocessing :( the problem was that she also took it upon herself to tell me off for having such a crap camera/taking such crap photos.
why? the world is so perfect and shiny through a digital lens. why take a photo of something you see with your own two eyes anyway?
you don't often see life through vignette edges with light leaks and oversaturation. ...unless you were on drugs... but that doesn't count!
so i walked down the road from that place and the mean lady and found solace at michael's where the cheerful Gus (i think thats what his name was) attempted to help me fix my skewed lens and i had a nice chat to the pro camera fixer guys who admitted to owning a holga themselves and absolutely adoring the effects it gives. YAY! its so nice to meet people who share the holga love!
these were the only ones that worked from the phillip island bunch...
the ever-running carnival we went to. with the creepy ducks...
darren fishing on the pier (though you can't really see the rod - its there!) we met these two lovely middle-aged men who gave us some bait and advice on where to fish. we caught some weird looking toadfish... which turned out to be poisonous so we chucked it back in. fail fishing trip.
and the car from a superb car show going on at the time on the island. its red in real life. there were all these other beautiful cars around like this which i was dying to take a photo of but was too embarrassed ... do you reckon people feel complimented or annoyed if you take photos of their car?
BTW tots don't mean anything against old chinese ladies in general... they just shouldn't work at photoshops! most are quite pleasant and have admirable fashion sense :)
which my parents tell me everyday.
so i laughed and went to the city. to the place where i normally get my photos printed. and the chinese lady there was like no. no we don't do black and white (which i needed at the time) nor do we do slide film (which was the only other thing i needed) but they did cross processing so i put my film in for that. and then all the photos came out shit, completely burnt out, like the photo of darren (in the middle) but like 50x more saturated... the only good photo that came out of that lot was the car one down the bottom and that still looks like a cartoon... but thats not the ladies fault, it was mine for putting the film in for cheaper crossprocessing :( the problem was that she also took it upon herself to tell me off for having such a crap camera/taking such crap photos.
why? the world is so perfect and shiny through a digital lens. why take a photo of something you see with your own two eyes anyway?
you don't often see life through vignette edges with light leaks and oversaturation. ...unless you were on drugs... but that doesn't count!
so i walked down the road from that place and the mean lady and found solace at michael's where the cheerful Gus (i think thats what his name was) attempted to help me fix my skewed lens and i had a nice chat to the pro camera fixer guys who admitted to owning a holga themselves and absolutely adoring the effects it gives. YAY! its so nice to meet people who share the holga love!
these were the only ones that worked from the phillip island bunch...
the ever-running carnival we went to. with the creepy ducks...
darren fishing on the pier (though you can't really see the rod - its there!) we met these two lovely middle-aged men who gave us some bait and advice on where to fish. we caught some weird looking toadfish... which turned out to be poisonous so we chucked it back in. fail fishing trip.
and the car from a superb car show going on at the time on the island. its red in real life. there were all these other beautiful cars around like this which i was dying to take a photo of but was too embarrassed ... do you reckon people feel complimented or annoyed if you take photos of their car?
BTW tots don't mean anything against old chinese ladies in general... they just shouldn't work at photoshops! most are quite pleasant and have admirable fashion sense :)
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