Calumet Day

So we had a talk from Calumet and photographer Simon Leach who is associated with them. Now I did quite appreciate Simons work, and he answered peoples questions quite well, and seemed to have some interesting things to say about the industry, but I'm going to be honest here, as it's my blog, but I felt like the whole intention of his talk was to sell us a fujifilm camera.

Now i'm very much aware that the talk was initiated by Calumet and their whole day was planned as a way for us to trial new equipment and potentially buy from them. I don't know what i expected from today but I felt a bit bombarded by sales, and less actually learning anything new about photography or actually benefiting at all as I didn't have money to purchase anything either.

I get how it could be useful to some people, but to me I was just kind of stood back not understanding much about the kit and not being able to afford it.

Hopefully the next talk will be a bit more beneficial to me!

Fujifilm Instax Contest

Fujifilm instax photo for a competition at college #fujifilm #instax #photography #hands #creativephoto #

A photo posted by Beth (@heydrapel) on Nov 7, 2014 at 4:57am PST

There is soon an event at college by calumet, who have leading up to this, issued a contest to win a fujifilm instax camera, something I would LOVE to own!

Every student who wants to enter gets one shot to take a creative photograph, so over lunch we took the camera out and took our photos to enter. (I'll stick Emma and Georgias at the bottom of this post through their instagram so you can be nosy and see theirs too!)

I loved the excitement of not knowing what it would turn out like, and I'm pretty pleased with my image, even if I can't calculate distance and had the focus set too far away, I'll pretend like I did it on purpose!

Behind the scenes of my instax image. 📷 Thanks @georgiabloy for capturing this bizarre position. And thanks @emmahowe3 for your lovely hands. :3

A photo posted by Beth (@heydrapel) on Nov 7, 2014 at 8:26am PST

Here's Emmas image!

My picture for the fuji film instax competition at college 😝 #cute #fujifilminstax

A photo posted by Emma Howe 🍉 (@emmahowe3) on Nov 7, 2014 at 6:27am PST

And Georgias!

Fujifilm Instax 📷

A photo posted by georgia, Instagran (@georgiabloy) on Nov 7, 2014 at 4:52am PST

Pop and give them both a follow on instagram, I'm sure they'll appreciate it! :)