Rasmus Norlander is a photographer with in Zürich and Stockholm. The photos he takes are of stunning engineering and architectural shots.
But what makes his photos extra special is that they are made with large (we are taking quite large!) or medium format cameras.
Check out his minimalist site; www.rasmusnorlander.se
Tags: architecture, engineering, Photography, sweden, switzerland
Laurent Nivalle is a French photographer with a wonderful eye for the classics. Love the designs of the old cars. You might have seen these before but this series taken at the LeMans 24hr race is amazing to look at, the colour in the photographs and the behind the scenes shots make me jealous. This year will definitely be a photography year for me.
Tags: cars, french, Photography, style
German photographer Bernhard Lang takes these amazing arial photographs of some fantastic places.
Tags: arial, landscape, people, Photography, small
Yowayowa Camera Woman’s Diary is a photographic diary by Natsumi Hayashi, who takes amazing portraits of herself levitating in all sorts of places in Japan (and photos of her cats too).
You can see her diary at yowayowacamera.com
Tags: japan, levitation, Photography
Multi-skilled Danny Willis has an great series of Analogue vs. Digital projects where he blurs the bounties between digital manipulation analogue photography and graphic design.
Tags: analogue, Photography, photos
These have been floating around the internet for a while, but I keep coming back to them again and again. Simply taken in Berlin in the winter. Wonderful.
Check the full set out on Matthias Heiderich’s Behance portfolio.
Tags: berlin, Photography, winter
Back in March I went to three gigs in three nights, almost killed me, my leg is still recovering. The first – The Magnetic Fields were pretty good, the gig was in a cathedral so it made the experience stranger. The second night, the Wild Beasts. But the third night was A Silver Mt. Zion (Formerly Godspeed You! Black Emperor) – a band I have had a long term love affair with, for reasons unknown I didn’t even know they were playing live, so pulling strings and not sleeping I managed to get a ticket. The day before I had even bought their latest record on vinyl. But to see them live that experience was totally worth the time, effort and money. If you ever get the chance to see this band live its one of the best live music experiences ive ever had. Possibly even the best. Of course I took my camera with me and you can see more photos I took on my photography site here.
Tags: a silver mt. zion, band, gig, live, Music, Photography
Check out these wonderful photographs of camera obscura projections created by James Nizam in abandoned houses in Vancouver. I have always wanted to create one of these myself and from what I hear they are not that complex to make, all I would need is a simple lens and a pitch black room with the lens on the window. Sounds easy enough.
PS. ‘Camera Obscura‘, is a great indie band from Glasgow. Check them out too!
Tags: camera obscura, cameras, Photography, projection, room
I’m loving these raw, colourful medium format photographs by Tata Vislevskaya, taken in the Swiss Alps with a Lomo Lubitel 166. Cross processed for maximum effect and atmosphere. This series of photographs really make me want to dust off my russian cameras and fly out somewhere somewhere like this. You can view the rest of the set here on Tata’s behance portfolio.
Tags: 166, camera, lomo, lubitel, Photography
As a late Christmas present I received this. A Lomo Lubitel 166B (Yes. I have a ‘thing’ for lomo cameras). A medium format from the 1980′s. Build originally as something cheap and mostly as a ‘toy’ camera, and thats what gives it its distinct character. As opposed to the Lubitel 166+ this one isnt made by the money grabbing lomography corporation. Yesterday I was trying to use my ‘piggy points’ online (basically money off points 1+£1), trying to buy some film, £10, however postage for 3 rolls is £12 — more than the film itself. even with £5 off its expensive, and on top of that they have a winter 10% off offer on too. Still came to £15. £2.50 more than in the shops. So what is the point? They still are making a killing on cameras and film. Even with the downfall of polaroid cameras there are applications you can buy like poladroid (some samples on my friends blog here) even applications for the iPhone like Hipstamatic are now very popular as cheap digital alternatives for these rare cameras.
The results are pretty good in comparison to the real thing, however I still prefer a real polaroid camera any day over the digital alternatives.
Back to the point. This is one of the reasons I bought a Lubitel 166B, to get back into the real experimental side of using film cameras. None of the ‘fake’ processing that can be applied to any image. Anything can happen to the film, overexposure, user error, mistaken blur or strange angles. That is what I love about using film.
The Diana+ another one of my lomography cameras (as used to take the above photo) is a 120 medium format camera, however lomography has released a 35mm adapter for the camera, which I have also bought for myself, meaning even more experimental fun to be had. I know I have totally contradicted myself by spending nearly £40 on a plastic adapter, but trust me it is worthwhile. I can see why people can spend so much money on these cameras for un-expected results. Paying more for something that is worse than others. However its those un-expected moments we ‘lomographers’ crave and that is why we do it.
…and yes, I know I have too many cameras, you keep telling me. Its an addiction.
They call it ‘lomo-fever’.
Tags: 166b, lomo, lubitel, Photography