i've been playing around with my Zorki 4k camera...can't work the damn thing out at all. Weird range finder nonsense and guesswork with knobs on. ... These are the best of a very bad batch, and even these i cropped to square.
Been playing with my 99p Lomo too, but two films later and i have nothing to show. nada. zilch. Now i'm about to crack open another from my collection of cheap Soviet made cameras... the Zenit TTl slr...
i'm probably more excited about that than i should be.
There is something a little more exciting about film photography i think, a magic of a random moment (very much the case with the Zorki), which you have to wait some time to see results of. Digital, on the other hand, is instant image creation with the benefit of hind-sight in many ways...
and that was Me.
- daren
- I believe that a passion for narrative and subject is an essential pre-requisite for a successful painting. If the artist feels ambivalent about whatever is captured in a photograph, a sketchbook or on canvas how can they hope to have any impact on those who see the final piece? Without authority the artist will leave his audience frustrated or worse, indifferent. Communicating mood & emotion are my most important motivators for making images. I’ve never been overly concerned with technical perfection or producing an accurate pictorial record of a subject or a location. For me the heart of painting and photography is to capture and communicate an atmosphere and what I’m feeling, as much (if not more) than what I see at the time of painting. If my paintings, sketches and photography speak to the viewer on an emotional level then I have succeeded in my work.
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