Aperture Settings For LOMO Colorsplash flash

After a night at ATP, London, shooting entrants to a fancy dress competition with my LC-A, I came to the conclusion that my LOMO coloursplash was too harsh. Using the automatic aperture and a bare colorflash, despite its puny output, was giving me totally blown out hilights in a totally unpleasant way.

I remembered a flickr post by theendofprint, talking of a film canister diffusor and got busy with a scalpel to produce the diffusor.

I then set about loading my camera with the shittiest film i ever had the misfortune of buying, Konica Centuria .. And getting Roman to jump out of a laundry basket whilst i played around with the aperture settings on the LC-A.

I came out with a result of around 80 cm at f.12 to be to my liking.

Recently directed to a further flickr discussion post regarding the same problem i found that a colosplash flash had been measured an a basic flash exposure chart had been constucted.

Thai Flickr Meet

Thai Flickr meet, May 11th 2008 A Sunday afternoon trip along the Maeklong Railway, from Bangkok Noi Statio (Wong Wien Yai) to Samut Sakhon also known as Mahachai (มหาฃัย)

Rather than waffle about the day,Please click here to view a collection of images from the day, by the group, Reins set, or here for a good blog post regarding this hidden treasure of Bangkok. If you ever visit Samut Sakhon, be sure to sample the restaurant on the second floor overlooking the passenger ferry.

A couple of sneaky shots of moi taken by Koen Pieters.

Practise Random Acts

Practise Random Acts, originally uploaded by RCM273LDN.

Found this sweet piece of street art, on a telecoms box outside JP Morgan in Blackfriars ... Dont know how long its been up.

I like the way its stuck on with sellotape, non-destructive graffiti.

Whoever did it must have been brave .. There are so many cameras in that area. Suprised they didnt get arrested to terrorism at this time.