Ah Paris...

Just this week, Diana, Amanda and Morgan and Kim have all shared film photos from Paris... and its been great to see them and remeber, I miss it so much! So I thought I'd share a few more photos that I haven't on here, it's been a while and I want some colour and sunshine.

(Anyone else feeling remarkably uninspired by the dreary weather, where is Spring?!)

 

 Have a great weekend!! 

Camera: Superheadz Slim and Wide
Film: Lomography Xpro (very slowly growing on me...)
Location: Paris!

Paris in film: Lomo X-Pro Part II

In my last post about this film, I said that I didn't like it - and considering that I've been looking at these photos since September when we delevoped them, I can say that is still true. However I find myself in the same position with these photos as I was before... I love the composition and the content, but that green tint... ick.

I know I could Photoshop them and I might try on a few, but it seems silly to do that when I chose to use a cross-processed slide film, you expect colour shifts, I just didn't expect to not like it lol.
 


These photos are my favourite from the film I used in my Yashica Samurai.
You can see the entire roll here.

p.s. I still have some Paris photos to share, are you bored yet? I took so many...

Camera: Yashica Samurai
Film: Lomography X-Pro
Location: Paris (yeay)

Paris in Film: Kodak Portra Vivid Colour Part II

See the whole set from this film here.

Camera: Yashica Samuria
Film: Kodak Portra VC 160
Location: Paris


p.s. have you seen my giveaway this week? I've extended it to Monday, you should take part!

p.p.s. The Winter registration for Susannah's Photo Meditations course opens on Sunday, it's amazing and I highly recommend it if you love photography!

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Paris in film: Lomo Xpro

The last time I blogged about Paris I gushed about the Lomography X-pro Chrome film because when I love something... I really love it. But when I don't... I really don't.

And I do not like this Lomography X-pro film (not to be confused with the X-pro Chrome). In fact I'm incredibly frustrated as I really do love the composition, angle and content of these photos, yet the choice of film has really spoilt them for me. It's taken me this long to upload them onto Flickr and on here just because of the disappointment. What do you think?

I love the cross processed distortion with the sunset photos because the colours were rich and gorgeous, and as with the chrome, the blues and turquoises are lovely, yet the overall green/yellow tone in these seems sickly and insipid in comparison to me. I really want to like them... but I just can't seem too.

On another note, these photos were taken at the Le Grande Arch de la Defence, which is outside the main city of Paris in the business district and it was a massive culture shock for us after spending the week in the city. It felt like we had travelled to the future haha.

Location: Le Grande Arch de la Defense, Paris
Film: Lomography X-Pro 200
Camera: Superheadz Yellow Peace

Paris in film: Xpro Chrome

I know I say that I love things a lot, but that is because I genuinely do... and I love this film 

(and this camera). In fact, it sometimes makes choosing which camera and film to use quite difficult to do... but I don't mind really.

Can you believe that I'm still uploading Paris photos? I guess I can, I did take a lot and 5 posts a week doesn't seem that many when there is so much to share... these photos are some of my favourites from the week. My superheadz slim and wide has relatively no pressure, you don't have to worry about focusing or the bulb setting, it takes no time to take a photo and sometimes, that is what I want and need and I love that.



I'm so glad that I tried the Lomography xpro chrome film in this camera - I expected it to look great and I wasn't let down. The colours and contrasts are so rich, especially in the Paris sunshine...

I sure do miss the Paris sunshine.

You can see the whole film set here.

Film: Lomography Xpro Chrome 100
Camera: Superheadz Wide and Slim
Location: Paris, France
 

Paris in Film: Ilford XP2 Part 2

"Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything.

It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way."

Jerry Mulligan, An American in Paris


You can see roll one and roll two of my diana mini Paris photos on my Flickr page.

Camera: Diana Mini 
Film: Ilford XP2 Iso 400
Location: Paris, France

Film vs digital quiz...

When I posted some of the photos that I took in Paris with my Yashica Samurai and the portra film, a few commenters were surprised by the quality of the photos that came from the SLR and professional film... so I thought I would have a little fun with you and put together a little quiz to see if people could really see the difference from quality film and digital photos..

So here goes, each set of photos has a digital photo Thomas and a film photo by Me from Paris but which side is the film and which side is the digital?


Set 1 - The Sacre Couer


Set 2 - Seine State along the river


Set 3 - Elephant outside the Musee D'Orsay

 

Set 4 - Arc de Triomphe detail 

 Set 5 - Inside the entrance of the Moulin Rouge.

If you click on the images it should show them bigger for more detail.

I would love to see your answers in the comments and I'm really intrigued to see how people will do, a couple of these look quite tough to me...

I'll post the answers next week, I want to try and get as many people to try this as possible so feel free to share the link with your friends :) and

good luck!!

p.s. Out of all our photos, these were the most similar that we took - 5 sets out of over 1500 photos. I still love seeing our photos next to each other, as even though they are the same subject they are still so different.

(apart from maybe the elephant one lol. I'm not even sure how that happened haha)

Paris in Film: Kodak Portra Vivid Colour

As I mentioned yesterday, I love the Kodak Portra films and the Yashica Samurai is the perfect combination with them. Professional standard film in an SLR camera can not be beaten for quality really...







Location: Paris, France
Camera: Yashica Samurai
Film: Kodak Portra VC 160