Firstly, merry crimble folks. I hope santa was generous and that the time spent with your loved ones was beautiful.
I was a very lucky girl this christmas and received the shiny new Diana F+ lomography camera that I have been pining over for months from my lovely mum. I have a real love for photography, but often get frustrated at my own lack of real knowledge about it. In our fancy modern age of digital cameras with easy auto-modes, its hard to really learn the true art that is photography. So i thought by getting my hands on a cheap and non-fancy basic analogue camera with a real life film in it (yes children, in the olden days photos were taken on tangible rolls of film, not digital memory cards), i might finally be able to get my head around what photography is really about. I'm working my way up from the bottom. And for the first time in my lazy life i can (truthfully) say, I HAVE A HOBBY!
My new Diana F+ is the limited edition version from the fashionable parisians at
colette. With their signature blue dotty pattern, and big fat flash, i think its pretty cute. And harbouring the soul of colette is BOUND to create beautifully fashionable and edgy images, no?
She has already become my new best friend. And I have decided that she will come with me everywhere.
Thankfully lovely-mum also gave me 3 rolls of 120 ISO400 colour and also black and white film to get me started. I've nearly finished my first roll of colour, and am now tasked with finding somewhere to develop it.. hmmm. I'm sure the results will be very interesting (/crap), but I have been noting down all of my settings and light conditions for each shot so far in true photography geek stylee. The theory is, that this will help me to figure out what works, and what doesn't, so i can start learning quicker. But like i said, its only a theory.
The colette package also comes with an interesting book called "Dianalogues Part 1: Through a Woman's Lens", which has also not left my side. With stories and images from colette and lomography.com contributors, its really got my creative juices flowing and inspired me to go out there and get going. Huzzah!
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There are endless Diana
galleries and images online (check some out
here), and it seems there are also endless possibilities and outcomes in this type of photography. It is this unpredictable and experimental nature that has attracted and held the interest of so many loyal followers.
Stay tuned for the undoubtedly interesting results of my first roll.
Alice.
