Lomography Photo Contest 2014!

Beau Photo Supplies is having a Lomography Photo Contest! We want you to go out and take photos with your Lomography camera or send in ones you've already taken.

 

You could be the lucky winner of a brand new Diana camera! Photo entries are free but limited to 5 photos per customer, and must have been taken on a Lomography brand camera. Contest is open Internationally. Photos should be printed in 4x6 or 5x5 format or standard panoramic size. Please don't hesitate to contact the film department if you have any questions regarding this! Email Nicole: film@beauphoto.com

 

The contest will be open for submissions from Now until 5pm December 22^th, 2014. Submissions will be judged by a panel on December 24^th, 2014. This year Beau Photo will be open December 29^th , 30^th till 5:00pm and December 31^st till noon, so feel free to come by and view all the photos entered and have a peruse of our boxing week sales. However, if you can't make it by during the holidays, the photos will be on display until January 31^st.

 

The Grand Prize winner will receive a Diana camera donated by Lomography NYC. The Runner Up will receive Lomography film. We are excited to see your images!

 

To submit, please drop off or mail your prints to the store with your name, phone number, email address and type of camera used printed on the back of each photo. If you have trouble getting into the store to drop off submissions during our regular
8:30 – 5pm, for the month of December we are open till 7pm on Fridays plus our usual 7pm Thursdays.

 

If you would like to have your photos mailed back to you please include a self addressed stamped envelope with your submission. We will not be held responsible for any accidental damage to the photos we receive as they will be up in our entrance way for all to view, so please do not send any originals.

Our mailing address is:

Beau Photo Supplies
1520 W 6th. Ave
Vancouver, BC
V6J 1R2

If you are not familiar with the Lomography series of cameras, here's a fairly comprehensive list of them all and a few samples. If you don't already own a Lomo camera or want to buy another one to try out, we have quite the range in store!

One of their really fun cameras because you actually build it yourself is the Konstructor!

 Here's a sample of a photo from the Konstructor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next series of cameras are the LC-A, LC-A 120 and the LC-A Wide.

 

Here's a look at the LC-A Wide...

 

 

And a sample from the LC-A Wide.

 

 

There's also the Lubitel, the Lomokino and the Sprocket Rocket.

One of their really sharp, great cameras that is extra versatile because it does a variety of sizes is the BelAir.

It can do 6x12...

And 6x6....

6x9 size...

As well as regular 35mm in a long format...

Lomography also has their great range of Diana cameras. From the baby (110 film) to the mini (35mm film) to the standard F+ (120mm film.)

We love the Diana F+! Especially with its varieties of colors!

Can you tell we also love animals?

Another one of their cameras that comes in quite the variety of colors is the La Sardina. Which is aptly named, as it's based on a camera made from a sardine can! Takes fun photos too.

If it's that sweet Fisheye look you're into, then they've got those too! There's the Fisheye 1 and 2, plus the Fisheye Baby 110! The baby is pretty cute, but takes some serious photos.

Lomography also has quite the range of sampler and splash cameras. There's the SuperSampler, the Action Sampler, the Oktomat and the POP 9. Which all take multiple images at once, giving you a great idea of motion. There's also the ColorSplash, that comes with colorful gels you can put over the flash to give you a burst of color in your photos!

Here's the ColorSplash.

And lastly, if you want to get the whole picture....there's some very interesting and creative panoramic cameras in the Lomo line up. There's the Spinner 360 that will actually spin around and get a whole view and the Horizon which has a swing lens to get a great 180 degree view.

Here's the Horizon Kompakt.

It takes fantastic panoramics!

If you have any more questions or would like to inquire which cameras we have in stock give us a call or send us an email! We also carry a variety of Lomography film too!

My First Worldwide Pinhole Day

April 27^th, 2014 was Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, and since I had never taken a pinhole photograph before Nicole and Kathy convinced me to give it a try! So with the Holga 120 wide pinhole camera and a roll of Lomo 400 film in hand, I set out with my dog, Hudson, on a walk through the park.

It was a pretty sunny day, but spring has sprung and the trees with their full leaves provided quite a bit of coverage on the pathway through the park. So for most of the exposures my shutter speed ranged between 1-2 seconds with the exception of one image that was closer to 3 seconds, in a particularly dark area of the park. I tried using a mini Gorilla Pod for a tripod but found it to be still a bit bouncy, so at times I also just held the camera as close to my body as possible for stability and shot away. This worked with mixed results, but I managed to get some reasonably sharp images, which I was quite excited by! I also tried to shoot a mix of close up images of flowers and further away photos of the whole pathway.

The one thing I didn’t realize about the camera, or take into account while I was shooting anyway, was that it was a WIDE format. Never having done this before or having used the camera at all, I just happily advanced away on the film, lining the numbers up in the back window as you usually would. Somewhere near the end of the roll I started to think, I don’t think I’m supposed to get this many exposures with a roll of 120 film or on a wide format camera…and I wasn’t. This resulted in basically one continuous photo, with no spacing between frames at all and many of them overlapping. I didn’t necessarily mind this at all though! Because it was all the same sort of subject matter, the overlaps seem to work out quite well. The green foliage nicely just runs together, with a few surprise vertical images showing up in the middle. I think my favorite images, if I could pick out a section of this giant long negative, would be the close up shot of the flowers and there’s a nice spot where a shot of the pathway turned out quite sharp. The only part I was a bit disappointed with the overlap was where I had taken a shot of the creek and accidentally overlapped with a vertical image of the trees. I really was hoping for a bit of water motion.  All in all, I had a lot of fun shooting with the pinhole and was pleasantly surprised with my results! I will definitely give it another try and see if I can get some water motion on my little creek.

If you took a pinhole photo on April 27^th, make sure you go to http://www.pinholeday.org/ and upload your images!

Here’s one of my favourite shots!

To see more check out our Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/beauphotostore/