Wanderland 2013

Lying on the grass waiting for something to happen

We brought a ton of stuff, like a bunch of paranoid hippies

Wow, it's been months since our last post here. I think my last post was a half-hearted attempt at reviving my waning interest in cameras.  That was at a pretty low point in my life, and cameras were the least of my concerns, but let's not talk about that here. :P       

    

Okay, so where was I?  Yes. Here we go.  I'm back in the game, to borrow an outdated phrase. Last weekend, my friend, Arianne, and I went to this music festival called Wanderland.  I'm not into the scene, whatever that means, as I'm pretty much an outsider anywhere I go (due to the fact that I make even the coolest stuff uncool), but it was great, despite the proliferation of flower hairbands and questionable outfit choices.  It was a sunny, sunny day, so I whipped out my cameras for some fun.  I used my Instax Mini and my Superheadz Fat Lens.  This post is dedicated to the Instax Mini shots. I have yet to develop the Superheadz shots. I'm busy, you know. :P

More photos below!

in front of Chungking Mansions

My friend, Arianne, and I went to Hong Kong.  I took a few crappy photos.  And in between those, there were a few cute ones.

along Nathan Road, aboard a double-decker bus

More photos below

the Bangui Windmills, Ilocos Norte

My family and I recently took a roadtrip up north to Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. The route was from our house in Bataan, then Tarlac, Pangasinan, La Union, and finally Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. Whew. For the trip I brought my two cameras, the Fat Lens and the Golden Half, and I used Lucky 200 for both. The results below show just how much I still have to learn about these two cameras. The Golden Half photos turned out moodier than I thought they would, simply because we arrived at Vigan before the sun was up in full blast. The Fat Lens photos turned out better than I expected, though. Lots of bright blue skies, vignettes, and wide angle goodness.

The Golden Half photos were all taken in Vigan, while the Fat Lens photos were all taken all around Ilocos Norte.

I haven't had time to edit the videos of my recent trips, but here are my favorite clips: one is of me and my friends having fun with the Inception totem (only my fingers and my voice are in the video, though), and the other is of my nephew, Zacky, after feeding the goats at Zoobic Safari.

Untitled from kannika p. on Vimeo.

Meee! from kannika p. on Vimeo.

The photo processor somehow messed up with my Golden Half shots and scanned the half frames separately. Ah well. Let's just pretend this is a roll from my Fat Lens.  Majority of the photos were taken in Naga City on a particularly unpretty day, but it was fun times indeed with my friends, Arianne and Eloisa, so despite the bad weather, everything was fun.

Arianne

Eloisa

 More photos below!

Here are some photos from my first test roll with the Golden Half Telepathy.  The Superheadz miracle happened again, so I am now a firm believer.  Out of the 36 possible shots, 33 came out.  I'm not going to post all, though, as most of them are either overexposed or underexposed.  I think I got used to the Fat Lens that doesn't need any adjustment in the settings, so I wasn't able to manipulate the simple settings for this baby.  Lesson learned, yeah?

I just love a clear blue sky

I'm pretty obsessed with my new shoes

What? No food in pool? Guess I better find my food elsewhere. ;)

The gratuitous lomo self-portrait taken in front of the car side mirror

A break from all the greenery - a view from our office window

Till the next test roll :)

k.

Here are a few Instax photos we took from our latest trip to Niagara Falls, Ontario:

Till next adventure,  V.

Pahiyas 2011, Lucban, Quezon

I finally got around to using my Superheadz Fat Lens during the Pahiyas Festival.  I used an expired 400ISO DNP film, and I realized I shouldn't have because I wasn't able to achieve that ultra-saturated blue sky that I was hoping for. Nevertheless, I still love the camera because, guess what?  All 36 shots came out!  First time that's ever happened to me with a toy camera. So I guess that makes me an official Superheadz fan.

Pretty lucky I got to sample the camera before the rainy season started because it's been pouring nonstop for days here.

EDIT: By the way, here's a photo of my sister taking a picture of me with my Nikon D40 - -

 Then below, a photo of me taking the photo above with my Superheadz Fat Lens. :)

All the photos below are exclusively taken with the Fat Lens. I should really think of a name. :P

my sister, Mikee

I asked my sister to take a photo of me :)

Pahiyas crowd

More photos of my family, the crowd, and Pahiyas