Lomography
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Lomography emphasizes shoot-from-the-hip photography. Over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are used to produce artistic, abstract effects and are prized 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.
The lomography credo "don't think, just shoot" encourages spontaneity, close-ups, ubiquity, and randomness. Film cameras are used. Typically they are low-fidelity, and may be inexpensively constructed. Some of the cameras have multiple lenses, colored flashes or exhibit extreme optical distortions or even light leaks like the popular Chinese-made Holga.
Current models marketed by the company include: Lomo LC-A, Holga, Holga 35mm, Actionsampler, Frogeye, Pop-9, Oktomat, Fisheye, Colorsplash, Colorsplash Flash, SuperSampler, Horizon 202, and Seagull TLR, as well as modified Polaroids and Russian deadstock.
The 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.
External links
- Lomographic Society (http://www.lomography.com/)
- The LC-A: Lomo-Compact-Automat (http://shop.lomography.com/lca/)
- LOMO PLC (http://www.lomo.com/)
- Lomography News Source (http://lomo.box.sk/)
- Why I don't like LOMOgraphy (http://cameras.alfredklomp.com/lomography/index.htm)
- German Language Lomo-Forum (http://www.lomoforum.de/)
- English Language Lomo-Forum (http://www.lomo.us/)
- LOMAT.ORG [lomography (http://www.lomat.org)]da:Lomografi
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