It's Guinness Time

It's Guinness Time, originally uploaded by Dan Baillie.

I wanted to produce a low-fi image that was reminiscent of a primitive analogue camera such as the Holga. I wanted to produce an image that conveyed all of the importance and atmosphere of the moment without the reliance on megapixels or pin sharp detail.

This was a candid shot that I took in the Bladnoch Inn, near Wigtown. I decided that I could use my small Canon Ixus to take this shot for several reasones, firstly it is relatively discreet, sencondly it has reasonable image stabilizing which helps and lastly due to the small sensor it is lower quality than from my Nikon DSLR's. I disabled the flash to make use of the available light. However this resulted in a slow shutter speed having to be used and despite the image stabilization a bit of motion blur. No problem, this helped add to the atmosphere.

The resulting image was then processed in photoshop and slight sepia tint was added in post production with some grain to make it look like a "real" photo :-)