Woke up this morning and was greeted by a SMS from Jimmy (of 8storeytree.com) telling me that I’ve won a POP9 camera in the Lomography + Jones Soda Competition – Pop 09 contest (week 3)! Yay!!! I’ve always wanted to own one of these cameras but somehow I managed to put off buying it for years already. Someone once gave me a ‘almost-dead’ one and I ‘dressed it up’ (check it out here) but too bad the flash is spoilt and the cover comes apart too easily.
I must thank Jimmy for bugging me to submit the photos for this competition. Hahaha. I’m a lazy bugger and he’s always bugging me to try entering some of these competitions … and I think his bugging has some magic in it! The last time he bugged me to do so … I won myself a custom Diana F+ camera in the Colette – Lomography competition! This time, one of his photo was also in the runner up list and he has a POP9 cammie on the way to his home too. Congrats, Jim!
This shameless self-portrait was my winning entry 😀
There were actually 3 different rounds of competition but I only managed to submit some photos for the 2nd and 3rd. Being a lazy bum, I didn’t really read the details and stupidly submitted photos that were completely not relevant to the 2nd theme but luckily there was a 3rd one to try my luck at. Phew!
Late noon I went for a short walk … trying to finish 2 rolls of film that I prepared for a double exposure recently. I wanted to do a double exposure with some of my favourite stars! Hahaha! Nah. I can’t possibly get Justin Furstenfeld from Blue October to do a doubles collaboration, but I used artwork and photos from some CD sleeves as the first exposure and then randomly fired some shots to settle the 2nd exposure.
There were some hiccups today (with using my SLR) and some of those shots are now in the recycle bin. It all started when I realised that my good old EOS88 was giving me shutter speeds like 1/1500 when the lighting was pretty bad. I had ISO64 film and was shooting around f2.8 … and I was pretty sure it was impossible to achieve such high speed in that lighting. I had my ISO set at 100 to prevent the 2nd exposure from over-exposing … but since the metering seemed a little crazy … I set the ISO back to 64 after few shots.
Strange but true … the photos turned out pretty okay (I mean the exposures) except for some which the first exposure was totally not visible … maybe after I set the ISO back to 64. Duh! Nevemind. Anyway I kinda like some of the shots from these 2 rolls. One of the roll was taken using my Lensbaby Composer and the other with my Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4 lens.
I smiled a little when I saw how this shot below turned out pretty well ‘aligned’ 😀
… and these were taken with the Composer (I actually prefer the results from this roll better)
