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iPhonography & Hipstamatic

I love using my iPhone to shoot, I reckon having a point and shoot in your pocket at all time is great but when you pair that with the seemingly endless photo editing apps the results can be amazing. One app has stood out from the pack and that's Hipstamatic. I've always found it curious what the appeal of seemingly analogue photography is to the masses, this essay I've linked to has a good stab at explaining it. I've chosen a couple of my own examples, almost at random, below.

The Faux-Vintage Photo: Full Essay (Parts I, II and III)

Film Photography

I love to shoot film as well as digital, there's something about the unpredictability of pairing a new camera and an untested film stock that when coupled with the delay in processing and scanning provides a much greater sense of excitement when I finally get my image. As i get around to scanning I'll post a couple of pics. The photos above was taken about a week ago with one of my favourite camera, the Olympus Stylus Epic, an awesome little point and shoot that I rarely leave the house without. On the evening I was using some cheap expired Lucky SHD 100 that I picked up in a lab in Burwood for a couple of dollars a roll. The shot above was taken on Belmore Road in Randwick at night.

The second photo is of CarriageWorks an artistic space and market not far from where I live in Sydney. This batch were scanned using my Epson Perfection V500, imported to Photoshop Elements 6 where minimal adjustment was used. Just cropping and some contrast adjustments. I'm no purist but I am lazy. As you can see from the night shot I tend to handle my negatives a little roughly, there you have it.