Dublin City Marathon 2008 – Lomo Fisheye

[bingbongbiddley]

April 4, 2009 at 4:51 pm

Hi,

Here are three pictures I took on my Lomo Fisheye back in October.

1.

2.

3.

I’ve gone to the Marathon the last two year. Quite enjoyable experience.
Any comments are welcome.

Thanks,

Alan

[randomway]

April 4, 2009 at 6:28 pm

Did you call the ambulance for the guy in the second?

Nice set of photos, nice light in the second one.

[Deebo]

April 4, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Good shots and second one is comical
Thining of buy a lomo and now i might just. thanks
Dee

[jessthespringer]

April 5, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Unusual subject to shoot on lomo, but it works.
I like the third, very nice.

Sinead

[bingbongbiddley]

April 5, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Thanks for the comments. The second one was taken with about 24 miles or more done. I probably would have looked like that guy after about two miles done so I’m not going to slag him. :D

Yeah, light is nice in the second. These low fi cameras seem to work better in harsh sunlight unlike SLRs.

Unusual subject to shoot on lomo

Why so? :) Anything works for a lomo for me.

What do you think makes a good subject for a lomo, out of curiousity?

Thanks again,

Alan

[jessthespringer]

April 5, 2009 at 1:27 pm

bingbongbiddley wrote:

These low fi cameras seem to work better in harsh sunlight unlike SLRs.

Unusual subject to shoot on lomo

Why so? :) Anything works for a lomo for me.

What do you think makes a good subject for a lomo, out of curiousity?

Thanks again,

Alan

They do like bright light, it took me a while to figure that out…

Maybe I meant, unusual to see lofi pictures of sports, don’t think I’ve seen any here before.
I think a lot of the time sporting pictures are so sharp and so clean, they lack atmosphere,
these are great though, different to sporting pictures we normally see…

I don’t know what makes a good subject, anything I guess, if the light is right…

Sinead

[bingbongbiddley]

April 5, 2009 at 1:38 pm

what makes a good subject, anything I guess, if the light is right…

True that. :)

Thanks for the compliment. I had an image in my head from the first time I went of capturing the runners going past the GPO in a fisheye style. Then when I got the lomo I knew what I had to do. :)

I believe that fisheyes and low fidelity photo work well for crowds of people. So I always take my fisheye along the parades and marches etc.

I get what you mean about sports photos normally being clean cut and highly defined. ‘spose it does make a nice change.

I might stick up a few more from the marathon later. They’re all quite similar though to be honest.