Melbourne - iphone

Because I was shooting a wedding, I made sure to leave my digital camera gear at home when I went out exploring (just for extra peace of mind) which meant lots of film photos (still to come!) and that my phone got a good work out. A fun thing I'll always remember about this trip was being in the plane, moments before take off, awaiting some pretty big news. The girl in front of me had her ear pressed against her phone listening to the announcement on her screen before the air hostess came upon the loud speaker to tell us that the marriage equality vote had passed in Australia - lots of cheering! In the vote, Melbourne had the highest support for marriage equality and thus on my walks I saw lots and lots of stickers and placards, banners and posters scattered in shop windows and on people yards - it was amazing! 

I also grew my rose obsession on this trip and nearly died seeing all the lovely front gardens, where it seemed, every third house grew roses *gasp*

Someone please sponsor me to do a 'roses of Melbourne' coffee book :p

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Camera Comparison

Whilst taking this polaroid photo the other month, I had the idea to take the same photo with a bunch of my cameras to compare! When I got my film photos back the other week, I finally had them all together to be able to do this post :)

1/ My canon film camera 1000f shot using kodak Ektar 100 rated at 400 scanned and edited using this method.

2/ My canon digital SLR 5D Mark II, shot using my 35mm 1.4 lens edited in LR

3/ shot on my iPhone 5 and edited using the photoshop express app

4/ Shot on my 636 polaroid camera using the impossible film skins edition.

I was actually super curious to see them side by side and very shocked to see the iPhone didn't lag terribly behind. The polaroid well, yeah, it's got it's own thing going on :p but the different between the film shot and the digital was also interesting, digital gave a more stock standard representations whilst the film took a slightly different direction.

So what do we think? Which is your favourite?

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