As Belinda said “It’s been with me since I was a little girl”. She started to talk about her experience of photography.
Since Belinda was a child, she got given an old camera and for her 10th birthday, she got given a codec camera. She told us that she took it around everywhere she went and documented from schools and holidays. She also remembers the excellent of going to the chemist and getting her photos developed. And then she went to study photography later on when she was in university and working in the darkroom and having that sense of image revealed before she was thrilling, so she then also explored into digital photography.
In more detail, Belinda thinks digital camera and film camera serve different purposes. She for many years had film cameras, since it was the only thing available. You can get remarkable atmospheric shots, with a sort of rigidness in the shots when it is punted. But there’s no escaping the power of digital cameras, when you take an image, you can see the image and if you don’t like it you can get rid of it, and then if you want to go home and print it and you can do it. So within moments, you have everything.
For the choice of black and white, there is not a lot of stimulus happening within the photograph, the soul of the photograph seems to come forward, you seem to enter into what the photo is about. But also the shades of black, white and grey, in terms of and mood creates something that is very appealing as well.
Belinda says her style of photography is not something that has been conscious. The most enjoyable time of her daily exercise is taking her dog for a walk with her camera. Because she usually goes to the places by the water and the park, it’s happened that invariably the photos she has been building up in the past few years is of nature photographs. During the interview, I found something interesting was that Belinda has mentioned she doesn’t feel comfortable about taking strangers’ photo. From her perspective, she thinks she’s reluctant to put a camera in somebody’s face, because privacy or something that she respects, so she’s more relaxed with nature photography.
In addition, Belinda explains that since digital camera has become popular as a trend and people have almost forgotten film and lomography. She thinks it gives people the opportunity to pick up film photography, but also be innovative with it, like the different lenses you can get with lomography and the different colors you can bring into it. So the outcome is between digital and film, that you can alter the image. Also some of those particular cameras are so tiny that you can put them in your pocket and have them wherever and create wonderful images. Moreover, Belinda also gives some examples of websites which upload great lomography images, so it has created a whole new force of expression.
At the end, Belinda suggests to new photographers that always take the camera with you and use it, let it be an extension of you. Don’t be too precious of your camera and make it like a journal as a visual diary. And then you find that the art follows, because you are so relaxed when you have got your camera. Just take it shoot it enjoy it.
Thanks again to Belinda!
Restyle Belinda's photographs with lomography effects and we also looking forward Belinda's comment to this.
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