{"id":1712,"date":"2009-08-02T01:51:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2009-08-17T14:43:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T06:43:03","slug":"pop-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Pop & Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>) but too bad the flash is spoilt and the cover comes apart too easily.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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This shameless self-portrait was my winning entry \ud83d\ude00<\/em><\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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I smiled a little when I saw how this shot below turned out pretty well ‘aligned’ \ud83d\ude00<\/em><\/p>\n

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… and these were taken with the Composer (I actually prefer the results from this roll better)<\/p>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

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