DottedDress

I'm back from my one week in London and today I picked up two thirds of my films. So much scanning, so many cool pictures. I really enjoyed the markets and parks. I have definitely caught the travel bug :)

I finally scanned my first homemade redscale film: http://dotteddress.deviantart.com/gallery/50161947/Redscale It was no fun. Not at all. The scanner/software had some serious issues with this film and it took me more than two hours to scan everything. Ugh. But I really love how some of the pictures turned out! I spend a lot of time post-processing because of all these problems. You can find more redscale photos and some more Fisheye fun on Lomography: http://www.lomography.com/homes/dotted_dress/albums Up next: Crossprocessed slide film and Diana Mini squares

It's been about six months since I started my analogue adventure. I got a Diana Mini for Christmas, bought a Fisheye 2 and dozens of cheap plastic and/or flea market cameras and found my dad's Praktica PLC3 again. And I'm in love. I was so bored and frustrated with digital photography and I thought it was a problem with the camera. As it turns out it was a lack of knowledge. With film photography I finally learned what ISO, depth of field, shutter speed and aperture meant, I learned to judge distances (a little better than I used to) and light conditions. And it's so much fun. Of course I still take boring or bad pictures but when a pictur