High-Contrast with the Lomo Kompact Automat

P-Dog has a problem., © Cary Miller 2005

I'm not a big fan of high-contrast outdoor photos (generally speaking, of course,) as they tend to be too overly-bright for my taste. However indoors, and in lower light, is a totally different matter...I shot this photo of my brother-in-law P-Dog, who suffers from mental illness, inside the cafe where I first met my incredible wife Lori. It was shot with a Lomo LC-A, using Fuji Superia 100 film, and with the camera's ASA set to 50, forcing an overexposure. Of course, the LC-A tends to shoot high contrast anyways, but in this case, I think the extra push in-camera really made the difference. I have found most of my indoor photos shot with standard ASA settings to be fairly lack-luster, to say the least ; )

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