I still love to browse through the commons on flickr . Recently I discovered these fantastic pictures. They are from the State Library of Queensland, Australia.
I love about everything on these pictures. The super nice girls who look so totally happy and so natural. The outstanding bathing suits and the beach dresses. I would love to have one like that. But most of all these are some very good photos. The photographers are unknown. The pictures are taken between 1940 and 1955.
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Inspired by the 126 film format which was introduced in 1963 and associated with low-end point-and-shoot cameras. Format 126 brings that retro square format to the digital age in the form of this iPhone app.
Format 126 is an easy to use app, simply load or take a photo, convert it to square format and then apply any of the following effects or options.
Effects:
- Neutral - Leaves the colors unaffected, allowing you to convert your photo to the square format with or without border
- ColorPlus - Gives your photos an extra color boost
- PolaColor - Gives you photos that retro Polaroid look
- ColorHint - Bleaches out all but the strongest colors in you photos
- LOFI - Gives your photos that extra toy camera look
- Mono - Gives your photos that good old Black and White look
- MonoPlus - Gives your photos that Black and White look with added contrast
- MonoHi - Gives your photos that ultra hi contrast Black and White look
- Vignetting - Adds a subtle vignette to your photos
- Border - This option allows you to add a white border to your Format 126 photos
- Square Format - Just in case you don’t want that square format look, we have enabled this option to allow you to switch off the square format
About them:
Glyn Evans is the owner, publisher and editor of the iPhoneography blog, which as the name suggests covers all things related to iPhone photography and videography, whilst Chris Comair is the developer of popular iPhone apps LOFI, Polarize and EffectsLab.
more here
and the flickr group
Polaroid on your computer? Poladroid is THE choice. This lovely made and free program can be downloaded here.
check the flickr group for more
From chris comair come some very fine apps for your i-phone: Polarize and LOFI. Both free at the app store.
Want to add a funky retro look to your photos? Polarize will do the job for you! Polarize is the only iPhone application that will do a series of pixel-by-pixel modifications to your photos, getting that true look. No cheezy overlays are done here.
Polarize gives you:
-A great unique look to your photos
-The ability to write at the bottom of your photos with a custom hand written font
-Any size photo is accepted!
-High resolution output
Check out the flicker project polaroid group and meet the huge community who is in love with that app.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/projectpolaroid
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The japanese program Toycamera AnalogColor is certainly among my top 3 apps.
The program gives you a wide and very nice spectrum of vintage color effects you can also choose the framing. If you want polaroid framing no problem. I especially love the cover open feature. The program is is easy to use ( just drag and drop). You can buy it for 9.99 through their website or just check the blog to see some samples .
Digital photography never looked so analog.The Hipstamatic for iPhone is an application that brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras of the past. The application keeps the quirks of shooting old school but gives you the ability to swap lenses, film, and flash settings all with the swipe of a finger. Characterized by vignettes, blurring, over saturation, discolored images, Hipstaprints have a casual and seemingly accidental snapshot feel. The Hipstamatic can be downloaded to any iPhone sporting the 3.1 or beyond software update. For $1.99 you can download the base model Hipstamatic 100 which includes the John S and Jimmy Lenses, as well as Ina’s 1969 and Kodot Verichrome film and a standard flash option complete with humming sound.
Original history:
Back in 1982, the Hisptamatic was legendary, well with at least a few hundred small town kids in Wis- consin. Known for its ability to swap lenses and take multiple film formats, this plastic camera was well on its way to being a big deal. Sadly less than 200 cam- eras were produced. Today, a digital reproduction is brought to the iPhone with lots of added features.
more on the original hipstomatic
The i-phone app
Long time ago I fell in love with vintage photos. I love the color from old analog pictures. The older the better.
I used to be a polaroid kid. Always carrying the camera with me. On holidays, I always made a special holiday diary " A picture a day " style. But then my parents stopped buying films and I could not afford them from my pocket money :-( so I switched to the families olympus XA2 ( often called the 'Poor Man's LC-A") which I loved to bits. I used it to take pictures of my play mobil games, later the camera came with me to every school camp and is responsible for all the hilarious teenage pictures of me.
But then came digital photography and and as much as I love good old photography and films, for me there is no turning "back". I just love the instant element. I own a Holga and a Diana camera but I always forget to develop the films. Once developed I have to scan them so I can process ie. blog them or add them to my database.
So I'm really having fun with all the cool vintage photography programs out there. Especially the ones for the i-phone. They turn my crapy phone cam to a cool tool. I know it's not the real thing but hey, it's so much fun.
My family recently bought an Epson V750 pro photo scan and I started to scan the old pictures ( there are thousands ) this will keep me buys for some time.
If you like old pictures have a look at flicker commons.
In the following posts I would like to present my favorite vintage apps.
Some pictures from the arcive:
Always when I'm in Belgrade I'm puzzled by my reaction to the romas on the streets. Many romas live in Belgrade, you see them begging on the street, searching through the waste for cardboard and other recyclable stuff but you also pass the roma slums in novi Belgrade. I'm always upset by the poverty they live in, fascinated by the way they look but unfortunately most of all I'm full of mistrust. I'm grown up with a liberal education my parents used to travel a lot and often took me along. On our travels through spain and portugal but also later in Ireland I came across many romas and never been deprived of something or threatened by any roma. The mistrust against roma people seems to be enrooted deep in our society.
I came across a very nice book on the roma people. Roma Realities – Decade 2005-2015, a new book from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the World Bank, uses photographs and interviews with Roma experts to examine the results and ongoing challenges of the Decade.
A book about the results and ongoing challenges of the Decade of Roma Inclusion, combines documentary photography and interviews with Roma experts from South Eastern Europe. Produced by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the World Bank, Roma Realities aims to reanimate the debate on Roma integration. The book is addressed to all those who are engaged in improving the access of Roma to quality education, health, housing and employment.
The book has been published by infolio.
The Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005–2015 is an unprecedented political commitment by European governments to improve the socio-economic status and social inclusion of Roma. The Decade is an international initiative that brings together governments, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, as well as Romani civil society, to accelerate progress toward improving the welfare of Roma and to review such progress in a transparent and quantifiable way. The Decade focuses on the priority areas of education, employment, health, and housing, and commits governments to take into account the other core issues of poverty, discrimination, and gender mainstreaming.
The photographs in the book are taken by Yves Leresche a swiss photographer who s spent month with the roma people.
In 2003, he already published a book with his works on the Rroms and exhibits the project at the Musée de l'Elysée, the photo museum in Lausanne. The final conclusion of his documentary on the Rroms obtains several prizes; Grand Prix of the Festival de Honfleur in 98, Festival de Biarritz in 03, in France, and his book (Benteli & Infolio) is qualified in 03 as being one of the most beautiful books of the year, in Switzerland.
I strongly recommend to scroll through this page where you can look at Yves Leresches roma pictures. Some pretty outstanding pictures, arranged by country and year.
Capture the true face of your everyday world. It is the unaffected expression that is the sweetest. For this kind of candid photo, the most suitable camera must be small enough to be always with you and always ready for a casual shot. On top of that, the ability to change lenses (and therefore perspective on sensibility) to match each change in scene and mood will spur you to new levels of shooting motivation and creativity. The ideal tool for this purpose is an unprecedented new camera system. GXR. The compact and versatile interchangeable unit camera system.
An innovative camera system expanding your range of expression with interchangeable units
GXR is a new camera system that consists of a body and camera units. Each camera unit contains a lens (focal lengths differ between units), an image sensor of optimum type and size for the unit, and an image processing engine. By changing units, the photographer can handle a diverse range of scenes in a way that satisfies sophisticated requirements for photo expression. The slide mechanism adopted for attaching and removing camera units enables changes to be made quickly and securely.
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