Taking it :
(i just wrote out a whole essay on this and my browser crashed so lesson learned on trying to do to many things at once, so sorry if this is shortened and rushed)
Im sure most can do a google on lomo, it will be pretty self explainatory, but here is my quick take on it.
Lomography is a name derieved originally from the Russian camera company lomo plc, the origins of lomo are based on the camera the LOMO LCA.
This camera was built in the early 80's and gained a cult following from a group of people who admired its charm. There are also other examples of similar cameras such as the Japanese version the Holga.
The cameras are similar with there basic elements, a pinhole style camera with a built in prime lens made from a single piece of glass or plastic.
The essence of lomo in a way is its poor quality. Vignetting produced from the lens, combined with old film and poor processing combines to create what has now become a genre of artistic photography.
Examples
Can i do it:
Yes if you can get a camera in tiime. Lomo cameras in general (unless of course your buying a classic) are not expensive. A holga with a flash and colour filters can be had of the bay for around 30quid.
It can be even more fun with some old film from say a parents now unused collection, and the cheapest boots processing to film or straight to cd (if you cant get to a scanner)
The general idea in the taking of the shots is not to plan it, but to just go have fun, shoot andything and everything and let the charm of the process unvail something different each time.
Faking it.
With the competition at hand i am unsure whether to post the scripts that i have that allow you to turn this.
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This is where i think it will become hard to judge the final results imo, because lomo is not essentially about getting an amazing picture, its about getting strange results from certain circumstance, processing and objects creating art that you aappreciate for its care free and bizarre resuults and faking it is kinda defeating the object, but in some cases it can be very hard to tell if it has been done. (you might want to have a discussion on the merits of really getting to grasp with lomo over faking it, when entering a competition, its got to be a point of validity when judging such a thing, it also means that with exif data as essentially it can't have it, you could take anyone photo and edit it and get away with it.)
However there are many scripts and tutorials freely avaliable to anyone who has the time to look, and if requested and allowed i will post and show you how, but i will say this.
What it is not
Like i said lomo is whatever you want to make, if you have a lomo camera. It is meant to representation of spontaneous artistic idea or feeling, id suggest taking a look at a lot of photos on the lomo society and comparing them to yours if your going to fake it. If its faked badly i.e solid/over done bordering, standard colouring, sharpness or obvious unecessary blurring you might want to go back to the drawing board, of course each to there own and such, don't want to upset the board heirarchy an all
Hope this brief explaination helps.
(i just wrote out a whole essay on this and my browser crashed so lesson learned on trying to do to many things at once, so sorry if this is shortened and rushed)
Im sure most can do a google on lomo, it will be pretty self explainatory, but here is my quick take on it.
Lomography is a name derieved originally from the Russian camera company lomo plc, the origins of lomo are based on the camera the LOMO LCA.
This camera was built in the early 80's and gained a cult following from a group of people who admired its charm. There are also other examples of similar cameras such as the Japanese version the Holga.
The cameras are similar with there basic elements, a pinhole style camera with a built in prime lens made from a single piece of glass or plastic.
The essence of lomo in a way is its poor quality. Vignetting produced from the lens, combined with old film and poor processing combines to create what has now become a genre of artistic photography.
Examples
Can i do it:
Yes if you can get a camera in tiime. Lomo cameras in general (unless of course your buying a classic) are not expensive. A holga with a flash and colour filters can be had of the bay for around 30quid.
It can be even more fun with some old film from say a parents now unused collection, and the cheapest boots processing to film or straight to cd (if you cant get to a scanner)
The general idea in the taking of the shots is not to plan it, but to just go have fun, shoot andything and everything and let the charm of the process unvail something different each time.
Faking it.
With the competition at hand i am unsure whether to post the scripts that i have that allow you to turn this.
This is where i think it will become hard to judge the final results imo, because lomo is not essentially about getting an amazing picture, its about getting strange results from certain circumstance, processing and objects creating art that you aappreciate for its care free and bizarre resuults and faking it is kinda defeating the object, but in some cases it can be very hard to tell if it has been done. (you might want to have a discussion on the merits of really getting to grasp with lomo over faking it, when entering a competition, its got to be a point of validity when judging such a thing, it also means that with exif data as essentially it can't have it, you could take anyone photo and edit it and get away with it.)
However there are many scripts and tutorials freely avaliable to anyone who has the time to look, and if requested and allowed i will post and show you how, but i will say this.
What it is not
Like i said lomo is whatever you want to make, if you have a lomo camera. It is meant to representation of spontaneous artistic idea or feeling, id suggest taking a look at a lot of photos on the lomo society and comparing them to yours if your going to fake it. If its faked badly i.e solid/over done bordering, standard colouring, sharpness or obvious unecessary blurring you might want to go back to the drawing board, of course each to there own and such, don't want to upset the board heirarchy an all
Hope this brief explaination helps.
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a descent and constructive post from Chronic!! Joking aside that is a good read and makes some nice points on the theme.
