First pressie and shared with birthday was a biggie, a shiny new iPad (think wifey got fed up with me 'borrowing' hers). Being the new version its got a camera (well, 2 actually - of course) which is fine for snaps and fun shots, but is useful for grabbing pics when proper cameras are left behind but its not exactly easy to hold. And with a vast choice of apps including a cut down (very cut down) version of Photoshop Express you can get some simple and fun effects .. just a good toy really.
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| Photo edited in PicGrunger App. |
And speaking of toys brings me to the second pressie, a Holga camera which really is an all plastic toy from China. Weighs in at about 1/2 an ounce, very basic with 2 apertures (quite posh for a toy), 1 speed + bulb, and pre set focus positions but it does use 120 roll film so shots could be really good .. in theory. I have the 120GN which is the up market version with a glass lens rather than plastic, but reading the forums the plastic lenses do have a following. In fact like other Lomo cameras these are very popular with photographers in many countries, with their rather erratic shutters the results are apparently a tad unpredictable, a stark contrast to today's hi tech digital perfection, maybe that's the attraction.
So, we have a high tech gadget that can capture, store, edit and share rather average quality pics, then a plastic toy that can ... take pictures .. when you have some film !.
Cost wise the Holga is well under £50 so the real cost is in the film and developing.
All pics here were taken on the iPad - did try to do the whole blog with it but need to work out how to get the pics into blogger - having a total love affair with the iPad but it has its limitations and the whole photo / file handling thing for websites is a bit of a challenge - guessing I need to get my Flikr account back up ?
Oh, and after typing this and hitting the preview tag all the text dispersed :( - guess iPad Safari doesn't like blogger - shame.
3 comments:
About time you upgraded your stuff, let hope your photos improve :)
Seriously, I think you could even take great images with a pinhole camera, as it's all about the photographer.
I want to start doing photo-type things on my wife's iPad, so it would be good to know the sort of things you can do on it.
Oh, and why are you so serious looking on that first image!!!
Pooooo loving the effect of the flowers - then again it is just that an effect - someone else's art . . . I struggle with that - same with photoshop - digital art is different.
Thanks Tim, from what you are used to the iPad is very limited but can be fun, its all about the immanency and being able to do everything without leaving Starbucks ... maybe not a good thing ?
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