Defect or an error

Posted by Nataly (Santa Monica, United States) on 16 February 2009 in Art & Design and Portfolio.

I missed posting on A3 so much that I decided to do something wild. I decided to post some images that were shot on film and had some kind of damage, like the light leak or the exposure error... I have been shooting film only for a few months so I don`t have too many of those, but I find them very interesting and 'stylish' in some way... So I think that this will be the beginning of the series. (may be). Well , at least something for me to play with until I am out and shooting again. I wonder if any of you who is shooting film have any of those images that look really interesting because of some mistake? Would be fun to look at those. Just a thought....

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Comments (12)

bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada

The blue streak makes this image look surreal...perhaps a sort of "Close Encounter" situation. I like this!

16 Feb 2009 5:21am

Margie from Auckland, New Zealand

Wow, I like it too.
Blue Chameleon got it right - very alien life force!
As for film shots, I have enough trouble with digital. I deleted an entire morning's shots yesterday - very sad!

16 Feb 2009 6:18am

k@ from Paris, France

Yep, great effect and marriage of flashy green & blue + the great silhouette of the kid = fine pic !

16 Feb 2009 7:57am

zahai from Berlin, Germany

the blue stripe definitely adds to the magic of the picture. Sometimes camera screwups can have fascinating results. i used to shoot on film a few years back, with a (or, in fact, several) broken camera (w/o me knowing it)...the result was an entire vacation's set of pictures exposed in one frame. and no, it didn't look good, it just got me really frustrated ;)

16 Feb 2009 8:49am

Marcah from United States

Wonderful composition and color contrast.

16 Feb 2009 11:53am

Luis A. De Jesus R. from Mexico City, Mexico

Please continue to share these --love the results. By the way, this film thing is becoming more and more tempting as I see what you are doing. What film are you using?

16 Feb 2009 3:22pm

@Luis A. De Jesus R.: It is so great to hear that the film idea is tempting to you. I am working on a series hopefully that would be shown somewhere some day and about a couple of months ago I visited this great Gallery with the work I loved. But the artist is shooting the digital only nowdays and some of the prints10x10 feet I`d say had a very annoying (to me) digital noise that did not suite the particular images at all. And that made me think that I should start working with the medium format to avoid this kind of look. And then after I got my Hasselblad I fell in love with the whole, very organic and alive process from loading the film to the printing. I am still trying different kinds of film, but one I know is my favorite. Fuji Velvia. It is reversal. And since I love color it is perfect for me. I actually hoped that by posting images shot on film more people will at least get a thought about may be trying the film or at least pulling their old dusty cameras out of the cabinets :)

Rajaa from Washington DC, United States

pretty cool.... i like the contrasting colors. makes it quite unique

16 Feb 2009 5:30pm

Howard F. from South Pasadena, Calif., United States

Haha, this is a cool accident, a beautiful light-leak. Mine was burned take a look at my post of the day.
There are times I almost wish there are some kind of accident. I remember before I started working and had money to buy new cameras, all I had was a LOMO. People on lomo.org (closed) would find ways to get accidents on to a roll.

16 Feb 2009 8:12pm