FIMO App Project
I love my cameras. I have a lot of them, and I love them all, albeit not equally.
Despite having a variety of fun film and digital cameras, the camera that is always at the ready is my phone.
I was watching an episode of The Photographic Eye, in which the photographer being interviewed, Eric Mencher, mentioned that he is a retired professional photographer who shoots only what he loves now. The best part is that he shoots with his iPhone.
As I listened, I popped over to his website and immediately realized the huge gap between what he was doing and what I was doing.
Take this image, for example -
This is the photo of my dreams. It has juxtaposition for days, high contrast monochrome, and loads of texture. It’s a photograph, but most importantly, it is a story. And it was shot with an iPhone.
I listened and flipped through Mencher’s images, which got me thinking about my favorite camera app: FIMO.
The App
I use this app a lot, but never for proper work. I take photos with this app and keep them for myself or send them to friends.
The app is essentially a film emulator. You scroll through the different films, select one you like, and go for it!
The app automatically saves images at a lower resolution, so I never considered using it for projects, which is a dumb reason. A) Photographic projects don’t have to feature giant images. B) Adobe’s free image resizer can size up the images afterward.
So, as the title suggests, I’ve started a project.
The FIMO app Project
35mm film creates 24 to 36 pictures. With that in mind, the goal is to take 36 photos with each film emulator. If I take more, that’s fine, but I need to winnow it down to 36.
The goal of the project is practice - plain and simple. I want to practice to learn more about photography in general and my photographic taste.
My first “roll” in the project is posted here - https://barbaratakemypicture.com/01-unicolor-125
I’ll be covering my project as time goes on. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the first “roll” in my project.
If you’d like to watch the episode of The Photographic Eye that inspired this, click the video below.