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Subway Tunnel Spirits
New York, NY - Peter - Sunday, May 19th, 2002 : goo
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Subway tunnels are odd and uncanny places. A Penticostal man in my neighborhood says if you look into the tunnels, you put yourself at the whim of evil spirits...
Some people avoid looking out the windows of traincars passing through tunnels; they avert their eyes to the bright advertisements, or peruse the crowd within the car, careful not to make eye contact...
Red lights are ominous; red lights move through the tunnels, disembodied. Red lights streaking, red lights whirling in spiritual patterns...
Green lights loop and whirl; green lights might be less evil than red lights, they say. Green lights also let the train leave the station, zipping quickly into the tunnel so that the brave among us can gaze through the windows at the passing lights...
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karma: 19th May 2002 - 20:00 GMT
these photographs are mindboggling. im wondering how you were able to capture the streaky lights, and the streaky lights in the third photo, with everything else in focus.
Peter: 19th May 2002 - 23:12 GMT
the streaky lights are thanks to the wonder that is the lomo compakt automat; as for the streaks-and-focused combo, well, the camera has a quirky feature that allows it to keep its lens open until the film is properly exposed... so, in a dark setting, it can stay open for up to a minute or two. what i did for these is to let the lens stay open for long enough to record the blurring/moving lights, then i flashed a handheld flash, which both provides enough light to signal the shutter to close and also floods enough light into the frame to record a crisp image of whatever's flashed, superimposed over the streaky lights.
whew. sorry if that was long-winded, but i really like the lomo, heh.
kobe: WOW that second photo is freeky! i love it.
selig: nice nice work! damn you and your lomo kompakt!
Tamara: 7th Apr 2006 - 06:06 GMT
Peter, I love my lomo too... great for long exposures and good colour saturation. I read online that the lomo society is not making them anymore, so hang on to it, very tightly.
it will be worth more than pretty pictures in a few years.
Peter: 7th Apr 2006 - 13:44 GMT
even better, mine was made in st. petersburg in 1975, way before the lomo society remakes... i had another, but gave it away. rest assured, ill most definitely hang on to mine, though!
Tamara: 7th Apr 2006 - 14:30 GMT
Aaaahh you have one of the good ones, the remakes aren't made as well as the ones made pre 80's. I've had mine repaired already and I needs to go back :( But really nothing made these days, is ever as good as the original. Old school rocks. I still love my lomo camera though, it's small and great to travel with.
EvilGentleman: 7th Apr 2006 - 20:24 GMT
It almost seems as if there is a spigot pouring out white paint in the photo with the squiggly red light.
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