Photography – LomoChrome Purple

After the photography workshop I attended in February, I’ve been open to trying a few new things with my camera—case in point, I recently picked up some LomoChrome Purple, on a whim.

One thing I noticed right away was that, with no particular sense of what the output would look like (apart from the demo shots on the Lomo website), I felt a lot freer just shooting anything that even remotely caught my eye. Less looking for shots, and more seeing what was around me, so to speak.

I’m not completely sold on the results, but it was a fun experiment, and there a few here that I find kind of interesting. Hope you do too.

Nikon FM2 & LomoChrome Purple 400 film, with some processing in darktable.

Someone sits on a long park bench or table, facing away from the camera Benches

An empty alleyway, with some dregs of snow and melt Ruelle

A fluffy ginger cat in the same alleyway, illuminated, slightly pink-coloured due to the film stock Companion

Close-up of small mounts of snow caught in shrubbery Boughs

A street corner with a low brick wall, on which someone has spray-painted "Gimme that shi" [sic]. The G has Shrek ears. Gimme that shi

A short alley, flanked by bare shrubs, under snow Ruelle blanche

The railings of a diving board, with no board, over Laurier pool, which is filled with snow Closed

The Des Carrières incinerator, viewed from behind a baseball diamond Incinerator 01

A snowbound planter, with a scraggly, bare shrub sticking up from it Planter

The Des Carrières incinerator, viewed from behind bare park trees, some of which have squirrel nests in them Incinerator 02

A long view down an alleyway, where a Hydro-Québec worker is visiting an electricity pole Service

A man walks in front of mounds of snow in the empty outdoor bays of Jean-Talon Market Jean-Talon Market

A brick warehouse building with a water tower Saint-Lawrence Warehouse

A few graffitied concrete bollards in front of an outdoor skating rink Rink

Tall, regular warehouse buildings in front of a blue sky The Shmata District

The back side of a church and bell tower Église Saint-Jean-Bapstiste

A squirrel climbs downwards, on a tree that has been cut just above Squirrel

A piece of winter machinery, possibly a plow, in the snow of Parc Lafontaine Machinery

A grey stone building in a snowy field Centre culturel Calixa-Lavallée

Concrete foundations for a building, viewed from behind a wire fence Foundations

An office building against a clear blue sky Office

A bent, bare, gnarly tree on the McGill campus Gnarly

The works above are licensed under CC BY 4.0