Kat's Notebook

This is a collection of the pictures I took with my BBF and UWS from my travels. I wasn’t too happy with the cross-processed of some slides. I’m amazed at the results of those pictures used with a high ISO. It looked like it was taken from a digital camera. Some pictures have a black [...]

Check out this camera from Hole-on Ex. This is this DIY Paper Pinhole Camera:       The Hole-On-Ex is a palm-sized 35mm camera that you construct with your very own blood, sweat, & tears In exchange for about 90 minutes of your hard labor, you’ll be handsomely rewarded with intense pinhole images, a new [...]

When I bought the BBF camera, I was most excited to shoot in the sprocket format. I had run through few rolls in this camera already. I posted a previous blog about the BBF. After pondering it thoroughly, I concluded that BBF was better with C41 films than the slide films. So I reserved the [...]

One of the reasons why I would intentionally go out and travel to different places was to shoot with my lomo cams. When I went back to the Philippines, I brought my Vivitar UWS and Blackbird Fly camera with me and of course, dozens of 35mm films. Between the two, I liked carrying UWS more [...]

Lomography is an expensive hobby. You need many lomo cam toys to satisfy your lomo craving. As someone has said to me, no hobby is not expensive.  Sometimes taking pictures with lomo cams can be frustrating too when you don’t get the result you wanted. For those who don’t want to shell out money to [...]

Most of the time we take for granted nature and its beauty.  Many times I will forget to look – too concerned about the day ahead. When I am driving, I will sometimes to look up the sky and be surprised how wonderful it is – the clouds, the light, and the sky. I would [...]

If you’re enjoying your lomo cam so much, maybe it’s time to experiment with accessories that can further your lomography hobby. Some lomo cams have specific accessories and some don’t. The problem with lomo cam is you can only do so much with 1 camera. For example, a fisheye camera has only fisheye lens so [...]

As with any field of interest, there will form a group of people who will share the same passion. With lomography, the groups are varied ranging from the general lomography group to a by-camera-kind group. Here in the Bay area, I haven’t had luck finding such social group. However online, there are many groups devoted [...]

Now that you have your lomo cam and you have browsed through a lot of amazing lomo pictures taken by other people, you must be excited to start clicking away and get a masterpiece out your lomo cam. As a starter, don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t happen that way. Lomography is a learning process, [...]