Toy Camera Print Exchange Round #2

[gr82bart]

Me too...

Nancy, I just got your print today. Very, very nice! Thanks for the great print.

Regards, Art.

 

[Don Mills]

Sounds like fun. Should the prints be mounted? Also, what size should they be?
Thanks,
Don

 

[PhotoPete]

Sounds like fun. Should the prints be mounted? Also, what size should they be?
Thanks,
Don

This round is closed. There will be another before too long, though.

 

[Dave Morrow]

I sent mine off on Saturday. The post office guy said it should take about a week for the international ones.

 

[mcgrattan]

Dave,

I received yours today. It's excellent! Great stuff.

I will either print mine this week and send out or it'll be sometime around the 25th (I'm away in between).

Quite jealous of the Holga 'look' on your print.

I think I'll end up using a Box Tengor neg. for the print as most of my Lubitel shots just end up looking like any other camera -- I did think of deliberately playing with the Toy Camera idea and using a Lubitel to produce as high a quality image as possible but rejected that idea as not being in the spirit of a Toy Camera print.

 

[gr82bart]

OK I sent my prints out this afternoon. Hope you guys like them. I realized as I write this that I didn't include any info, so here it is:

Toy Camera: Lomo Fisheye Camera - http://www.lomography.com/
Film: Kodak Gold 400
Paper: Kodak Royal (?)
Mounted on 4 ply and matted with 8 ply, both acid free museum board
Location: Bradley Airport, CT as I was boarding the plane on the tarmac

This is a cool little camera. I took a whole series of pics as I went from Bradley to St Louis one day for a business trip.

Regards, Art.

 

[Dave Morrow]

Bastiaan - I got your print today. It is superb! Very good choice for the Holga look

I was really impressed with your printing. This is the first FB print I've handled (that was made by someone else!) and I liked the subtleness of the tones. Beautifully done.

Can you tell me how you got the print so flat? There's not a curl or a bump on it! I've never managed that degree of flatness with FB - what is your secret?

 

[raucousimages]

My prints went out late wednsday night.

John

 

[gr82bart]

My prints went out late wednsday night.

Holy cow! That pic was taken with a toy camera?! It's beautifully composed, sharp where it needs to be and very well printed. Thanks so much.

Regards, Art.

 

[mcgrattan]

Bastiaan,

I also received yours. Very nice. The perspective is great.

Mine will go out tomorrow, I hope. I printed them a few weeks back but haven't gotten round to posting.

 

[PhotoPete]

Mine hit the mail today.

Dave, your print was breathtaking. You are definitely getting the fuzzy end of this lolipop.

 

[Dave Morrow]

Cheers Pete.

I got yours on Saturday - lovely Holga effect

 

[mcgrattan]

Mine all went out yesterday. Sorry for the delay.

Decided to send two -- one Lubitel, one box camera.

 

[Dave Morrow]

Cheers Matt - yours arrived a couple of days ago. Damn, I'm going to have to buy a lubitel now

 

[mcgrattan]

The Lubitel is a genuinely good camera, in my experience. The ergonomics of using it aren't great but when the lens is stopped down a few stops and used on a tripod you can get pretty impressive prints.

 

[Bastiaan]

Hi Pete and Matt,

I'm back from a long vacation and found your prints in the post.

They are all beautiful.

Thanks for exchaning photos with me!

Bastiaan

 

[PhotoBob]

Thank You

I would like to thank the North American group for their wonderful prints, very good quality and matting too.
I however, am a little disappointed with myself as this was my first experience at something like this and feel I should have done more immediately after looking at the works I received.
I hope those whom I exchanged prints with are not too disappointed. I shall endeavour to use this inital experience as a learning moment - and thank you very much.