Poppies

Driving along the A27 outside Brighton on Saturday I saw a huge field of poppies colouring the largely green landscape with scarlet stripes. So this morning I drove a short distance to find the field and take some photos. It wasn’t hard to find – there was a small queue of cars parked along the grass verge beside the field where a number of other amateur photographers had parked up to take photos.
I took both my Nikon 1 and my Hipstamatic with me and it proved a good subject for testing different Hipsta styles and comparing them with regular photos.

The pictures above we’re both taken with my Nikon 1. I used a fisheye lens for the bottom picture, which is why there is a slight curvature to the horizon. The image below was captured with my Hipstamatic, using the Loftus lens and Pistil film.

The photo above was taken using the Hipstamatic lens Kaimal Mark II and Ina’s 1969 film – I love the orange colour it gives the landscape. In contrast, the Helga Viking lens with C-Type Plate film create the beautifully atmospheric bleached image below.

And for a richly colourful Hipstamatic photo you can’t beat the John S lens, combined below with Ina’s 1969 film.