Lomography

Lomography is taking a photographic revival. Everyone getting back to the film camera of yesteryear, compared with today’s technological advances with cameras producing quick and easy pictures at high-resolution, with there automatic settings, high-speed shutter settings, etc. And also with the editing process thanks to computers and such programmes as Photoshop.

While most of us growing up waiting for our holiday pictures to be developed. You can see your pictures immediately, with the option of delete or save, an option not available with earlier film cameras. For a long time it seemed as if the old days of film photography were over, until a blast from the past came to the rescue...

Some facts about Lomography...

In 1991, two students in Vienna, Austria stumbled upon a compact-sized Russian camera called the Lomo Kompakt Automat.
They began taking pictures just for fun without thinking. After they came back to Austria, they were amazed to find that the photos they took had extremely rich colours, uncomposed, spontaneous snapshots, especially in the street and in low light. Since then the history of lomography has begun.

The characteristics of Lomography are saturated colours, depth of field, edge darkening, light distortion. The best subjects are images which contain high colour, stone rock or gravel textures, as well as shiny objects like metal. Another add-on to the camera is a wideangle lens which produces Fisheye.

However, if you don't own a LOMO camera, then you can achieve the same effect using a lomography photoshop action that can be downloaded.

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