Subway Tunnel Spirits

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.

Anonymous (63.161.116.194): 15th Jul 2005 - 21:55 GMT

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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.