Florida

I followed a tutorial which involved cross-processing the image before adding a black & white layer and a purple gradient layer to make the image darker. I didn't like the look of the images with the purple gradient layer, so instead i decided to add a gradient layer and use the spherical gradient using white in the foreground and black in the background. I then overlayed this gradient over the image to create a dark vignette effect. And here are the final images...

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Florida

In May this year (after years of going on about it) i finally got to go to Disney land Florida! Over the two weeks i was there i took a lot of photographs at the parks and in the area surrounding the hotel. Here is my contact sheet...

Even though there are a lot of images here, there were only a select few that i really think are strong images. When considering how i was going to edit them, my boyfriend made a comment that it would be a cool idea to edit the images in a really dark way to contradict the bright happy image that people get when you say Disney. I didn't like the idea of making them really dark, but i liked the concept of doing something unpredictable, so i decided to look at a lomography tutorial that tells you have to create a dark cross-processed image.

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A Colourful Walk

A COLOURFUL WALK

These edits have come from a shoot i did a while back whilst on a walk down a dirt track near where i live. On the day i chose to do the shoot it was really cold and the weather was really dull with a low coating of fog. I thought the weather would make for interesting photography. However, when it came to editing them i found it difficult to know how best to manipulate them. I would usually go for changing levels and saturation to create an image with bolder colours, or alternatively the cross-processing technique to create some lomography. However, because of the dullness of these images, bringing them to life by enhancing the colours proved difficult. Instead, i decided to play around with the hues and bring them to life by adding unusual colours. I thought that trying to add blues and purples to the grassy areas would create an element of fantasy and make the images pop. This manipulation did not work on many of the photographs, but on the ones that it did i think it created some strong photography.

Here is an example of what the images looked like before...

...and this is what they looked like after!

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Diana F+

I really wanted to take my new camera on my holiday to Florida in May, but the last thing i wanted to do was use up my film and get them developed to find i haven't been setting up the camera right or winding the film on correctly and find myself with no film and no pictures. I therefore decided to use one roll of film as a tester and got them developed before i went. From the film i got these images that i shot in Sheffield just to test the setting of the camera.

I definitely prefer how the second half of the film came out, but i think this is because the sun came out for these ones so the length of time i exposed the film for was perfect for the light. Perhaps for the first couple i could have exposed the film for a split second longer. However, as a whole i was really pleased with the exposure and the framing for a first attempt! This made me feel confident enough to take my camera to Florida and shoot some film there! However, i am yet to get these developed...

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Diana F+

DIANA F+

I love lomography and for quite a while i have been after my own lomography camera. Finally i got one for my birthday back in April - a Diana F+ - along with some 120 iso 400 negative film. So far i have had one roll of film developed and the images put onto a disc and i have been lucky enough to have all of the images come out! I was half expecting them to be blank or not in the frame properly as i was apprehensive about whether i had used the right frame mask for the number of images (it turned out i hadn't), or i hadn't wound the film on correctly, or that i hadn't exposed the film for the right length of time etc. etc.

Judging by my prints though, i managed to it get it right(ish) the first time. However, i did watch a lot of tutorials on YouTube before risking it and taking some pictures. Someone i found particularly helpful is http://www.youtube.com/user/kaituba/featured. He has a lot of tutorials for the Diana F+ as well as numerous other cameras and just generally anything of photography so if you need any help i definitely recommend checking out their channel!

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Türkiye

FISH EYE

In addition to creating the cross-processed images with a coloured vignette i thought i would play around with creating some photographs that look like they have been shot using a fish-eye lens. This is another effect that can be easily reproduced using digital manipulation. Once again i looked online for tutorials or steps to remind me how to complete this process in Photoshop and added a fish-eye lens effect to the nine edited images to create these...

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Türkiye

For previous shoots i have just gone through the contact sheet and editing all of the ones i liked, but this meant that i was editing a lot of images and i doubt people would want to go through large amounts of images that are of the same subject. Therefore i thought it might be more of a successful collection if i just choose nine to edit that work together to represent the old town of Side.

To begin with i edited the images following a tutorial that gave the images a brighter centre and a darker vignette around the edges. I then edited them a second time to cross-process them and give them a black vignette. This is an example of how the first two sets of edits came out...

 

I didn't really like the black vignette around the second set of images - i think it takes the attention away from the subject. However i think the colours that are produced from digitally cross-processing them are really interesting! On the other hand i think the colours displayed in the first set of images aren't as strong as they are after being digitally cross-processed, but i do like the vignette effect in these images where the colours just gradually get darker as they reach the edges of the image. Therefore i thought it would make sense to edit them again and combine the two elements i am really happy with from each set to create a really strong set of images. I was much happier with this result!

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