Hip portraits

Lately I’ve been playing around with the iPhone app Hipstamatic, one of the apps that’s taking the photography world by storm.  I love how it’s brought back an element of spontaneity into my photography, and the retro look is downright cool.  You can play around with different lens, different films, all of which give very interesting and different effects.  The results are unpredictable, which adds to the fun.  Lately, in the run up to the 2012 Budget, I decided to shoot portraits of the social partners (Michael Briguglio, Joe Farrugia, Tancred Tabone, Vince Farrugia, John Bencini, Josef Vella, Tony Zarb and Jesmond Bonello) and using the app, opting for a black and white approach, and using ambient light only.  Though I did get a couple of weird looks, with some of the subjects wondering why I was putting my DSLRs down on the ground and shooting the pictures on an iPhone, they were all more than happy to collaborate.  I thought the end result was pretty interesting, though they did lose a lot once they were published in newsprint on the paper.