Light-leak Bicyclette

So this is my first post for my blogspot page, I was a bit bored at 2.00 AM so decided to have some more fun by created a blogspot page and a Twitter page...

I'm feeling good to have this created, since Yahoo! 360 closed down, I hardly have any place to write down anything I want... now I do, hah. And sure, this blogpost is gonna be mainly about my photography work and experience.




Sorry that my first post was copied from my latest photo's description on Flickr, but since it's a great experience I've just gained from my photography experiments recently, I wanna share it.



It was a week ago, I accidentally figured out how to have light-leak on my photos (with a TLR Yashica-A).


I've got a TLR Yashica-A about 2 weeks ago, and it is a really remarkable turning-point in my photography life, if you wanna know more about my story with this camera, this is the link.



A TLR Yashica-A | photo from MobileBurn's photostream on Flickr.



So, this is how to have light-leak on your photos.


Load a film roll into your camera, then just wind it over to the end of the roll (without shooting any shot). After you've finished winding all the way to the end, the roll now will be in finished condition (sorry my English is bad), unload it, swap the spools as if you're about to load a new roll, then re-load the film roll and do the winding once again, without shooting, yep (this is to bring the roll back to the un-used condition).

Finished? Do it again (this is the last time, I promise). Unload the film roll (after finishing winding it again, you'll see the film roll now looks like a new, un-used roll), swap the spools and load it in again, and now you can start shooting.


As being winded up over and over again before exposed for 3 times, the film rolls will somehow be damaged and create some light-leak, even some double exposures, and frame-cut. (light-leak surely will happen to the last 2 frames, not sure about the rest).



* Take look at what happened to an unlucky frame, from the same roll





Hah!... I'm falling more and more deeply into doing photographic experiments... last night I stayed up until 3AM to modify my HOLGA 120FN, loading 35mm film into it as this very useful direction on YouTube.

I was successful with that, but this morning I didn't have a chance to try shooting cause I didn't wake up until 11.30 AM ...


So it's also another photography experience (more about personal, I guess). Take more care of yourself than your photos.