LomoChrome Metropolis 35mm Film Test for Travel Portraits

According to Lomography, you can choose different ISO from 100 to 400 to yield different results. I decided to try shooting at ISO 400 for more light. This is my second time shooting portraits with the Contax G1 film camera ever since the boudoir shoot with Yumiko. For this travel portraits shoot, I’ve set the camera ISO to 400 and shoot at wide open aperture at F2-F8, at the mean time monitoring the shutter speed so it doesn’t go lower than my lens focal length and it will be alright. I have the film lab developed it normally without pushing or pulling. I always wanted to shoot more portraits with this lovely film camera with the Carl Zeiss Planar T* 45mm lens because it can produced sharp images.

When it comes to travel portraits and film photography, sometimes I love to have the background blur to let my subject more in focus. If there are interesting landmarks or backgrounds, I would get both the subject and background in focus so that the tourists can have a nice travel pictures to bring home. To make good use of this, I always shoot during the golden hours to get the good lighting.

I might also want to try shooting LomoChrome Metropolis at night, probably I might give it a try next time when there’s a chance.