Lomography.
by Chris Coyier
In my recent adventures in photography I have learned about a cool style called Lomography. Lomographic photos are characterized by weird, overly saturated colors, blurriness, exposure problems, and sometimes faded black edges (it’s cooler than it sounds). More than just a style, lomo is actually a brand of camera, with various models throughout the years. The part I find most interesting are the lomo rules:
- Take your LOMO everywhere you go and whenever you go.
- Use it any time – day or night.
- Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
- Shoot from the hip.
- Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
- Don’t think.
- Be fast.
- You don’t have to know beforehand what you’ve captured on film.
- You don’t have to know afterwards, either.
- Don’t worry about the rules.
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May 10th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Their rules are interesting, but their cameras are way overpriced. There are loads of quirky second hand cameras on eBay which will give you a choice of equally distinctive results. Yashica or Lubitel twin lens cameras, 50s folding cameras by Kodak and Zeiss, the Olympus Trip 35, Olympus XA series, Canon rangefinders, the Polaroid SX-70. These will outlast the novelty of a “Lomo” camera, especially if you learn how to develop your own film.