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04/25/2006 06:13:36 AM · #1 |
How about a challenge that involves taking a photo in the style of a Lomo image. Editing caould be confined to the use of a Lomo Action in Photoshop.
Lomo is classically shoot from the hip, high contrast and saturation.
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04/25/2006 07:08:53 AM · #2 |
| what a very good idea....yes ! |
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04/25/2006 07:24:50 AM · #3 |
| Oh, a while back, someone posted some links to Lomo sites. I thought they were pretty interesting. I think that would make for a really cool challenge :-) |
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04/25/2006 04:47:00 PM · #4 |
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04/25/2006 05:01:41 PM · #5 |
I like this idea. It would make most people do something they haven't done before. But we probably need to have some educational stuff to go along with the challenge title because lots of us, like me and ragamuffin, are pretty ignorant about lomo.
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04/25/2006 05:02:02 PM · #6 |
Have a look HERE and HERE
I'm on the lomo society email list, they have some fantastic cameras there, I used to have one that shot 4 picture at 1/4 intervals on one exposure, brilliant fun. I was debating if I should get a medium format seagull TLR to play around with! |
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04/25/2006 05:03:05 PM · #7 |
Oh, YES PLEASE!! As long as it was advanced editing. :-)
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04/25/2006 05:04:26 PM · #8 |
to quote the BBC often lomo shots are: "odd to look at, out of focus and, due to the character of the Lomo lens, garishly coloured"
Bring it on! |
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04/25/2006 05:04:37 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
What is lomo? |
Silly gurl - it's the opposite of himo....
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04/25/2006 05:08:34 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by BradP:
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
What is lomo? |
Silly gurl - it's the opposite of himo.... |
Dood... that was really bad! get your coat! |
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04/25/2006 11:56:01 PM · #11 |
| Lomo is cool!!! I think that is a great idea. |
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04/25/2006 11:57:25 PM · #12 |
| Lomo is cool!!! I think that is a great idea. |
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04/26/2006 01:39:41 PM · #13 |
| I still want to know what it is. |
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04/26/2006 01:53:18 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
I still want to know what it is. |
The Lomographic Society International |
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04/26/2006 01:57:02 PM · #15 |
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04/26/2006 02:01:32 PM · #16 |
To quote wikipedia:
"Lomography is a commercial trademark of Lomographische AG, Austria for products and services related to photography. The name is licensed from a former state-run optics company LOMO PLC in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 35 mm LOMO LC-A camera employed an unusual lens which produced large amounts of distortion at the edges of the image whilst keeping the center sharp, and was promoted by businessmen from Austria with international gallery shows.
Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Accidents such as over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are rehabilitated to produce swirly, abstract effects - a trait emphasized by practitioners. Others use the technique to document everyday life, because the small camera size and ability to shoot in low light encourages candid photography, photo reportage and photo vérité.
Similar to Eastman Kodak's concept of the "Kodak moment," the Lomography motto of "don't think, just shoot" presumes spontaneity, close-ups and ubiquity, while deemphasizing formal technique. Typical Lomography cameras are deliberately low-fidelity, or inexpensively constructed. Some cameras make use of multiple lenses and rainbow-colored flashes, or exhibit extreme optical distortions and even light leaks - compare the popular Chinese-made Holga. Principles of Lomography have also been extended to cinema.
Current models marketed by Lomographische AG include Lomo LC-A, Holga, Holga 35mm, Actionsampler, Frogeye, Pop-9, Oktomat, Fisheye, Colorsplash, Colorsplash Flash, F-stop Bang, SuperSampler, Horizon 202, Seagull TLR and Smena 8M. The company also resells modified Polaroid cameras and Russian deadstock - the sort normally acquired at "quirky, old-school camera shops", as the company's website puts it.
The following are the company's 10 Rules of Lomography:
1. Take your LOMO everywhere you go.
2. Use it anytime - day or night.
3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
4. Shoot from the hip.
5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
6. Don't think.
7. Be fast.
8. You don't have to know beforehand what you've captured on film.
9. You don't have to know afterwards, either.
10. Don't worry about the rules.
It can be argued that points 1, 2, and 3 are substantively the same as each other, as are points 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
The company's promotional website for Lomography showcases many high contrast photographs, with unusual saturation and color, that were created using the technique called cross processing in which film intended for developing in slide chemistry (E-6) is processed in photographic negative chemistry (C-41), and vice-versa. This technique can be employed with any film camera." |
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04/26/2006 02:01:37 PM · #17 |
Lomo is old style, low tech photography....
Holga and Lubitel russian cameras are typical lomo style cameras, but the effect can be simulated in ps
Message edited by author 2006-04-26 14:12:43. |
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04/26/2006 02:08:36 PM · #18 |
So is Lomo a camera? or an effect?
Quoting wikipedia, Lomo is a commercial trademark. What does that mean?
edit: apologies if i sound like a wise-ass, i just dont get what it exactly is. Can someone post differences between a lomo and a non-lomo?
Message edited by author 2006-04-26 14:11:24. |
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04/26/2006 02:17:45 PM · #19 |
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04/26/2006 02:18:21 PM · #20 |
Orginally was the camera.
Now has become a cult-like following using a number of other cameras, primarly inexpensive point & shoot kinds, that can pretty much take a shot under almost any kind of lighting, often causing some really odd colors and distortions. In the case of a challenge here, it becomes more of a weird angle point & shoot effect with what will probably be a lot of contrast and saturation added for effect. |
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04/26/2006 02:21:45 PM · #21 |
whew! thanks! That actually makes more sense than the wiki entry.
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04/26/2006 05:54:22 PM · #22 |
Is this Lomo?
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04/28/2006 01:55:20 AM · #23 |
Glad theirs some interest... would be an interesting and controversial challenge I think... just figured it was something a bit different...
Chris
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04/28/2006 03:57:59 AM · #24 |
Well, none of these cameras are digital, so I guess you're suggesting emulating the STYLE of casual, unaimes, distorted, graishly colored images that these cheap film cameras produce?
And to do that we'll have to take our digital images and manipulate them so they look like that? And do it consciously?
Doesn't this sort of derail the whole PURPOSE of lomography? Or am I missing something?
R.
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04/28/2006 04:30:59 AM · #25 |
This idea sounds loco. :P
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