A brief history from the lomography website www.lomography.com/about
"It began with a fateful encounter in the early 1990s, when two students in Vienna, Austria, stumbled upon the Lomo Kompakt Automat – a small, enigmatic Russian camera. Mindlessly taking shots from the hip, and sometimes looking through the viewfinder, they were astounded with the mindblowing photos that it produced – the colours were vibrant, with deep saturation and vignettes that framed the shot – it was nothing like they had seen before! Upon returning home, friends wanted their own Lomo LC-A, igniting a new style of artistic experimental photography that we now know as Lomography!"
And that is it, that's where it all started. For me it all started at work when the owner of another blog (www.theotherphotographyblog.blogspot.com) I was like the two students in Vienna it was new and interesting, I was hooked. Ever since I have been slightly addicted. I love how it gives life to any old film and any old camera that you can get a film into even if its the wrong film. Another joy of Lomography is cross processing which is generally slide film through c41 chemistry giving vast colour shifts and colour casts and producing a negative not a slide. It can how ever be done in reverse and colour negatives can be processed in E6 slide chemistry which produces slides with a pastel colour effect. This isnt effect I have personally tried.
Basicly if you have an old roll of film and an old camera you can join the Lomo community if you want to buy some of the now cult and traditional Lomography cameras head over to the Lomography shop (there's a link at the side)
Some of my Lomo shots from varies cameras:
Top image: Smena 8 - Cross Proccesed
Middle image: Holga 120 GFN - Neopan 400 Film
Bottom Image: Fisheye 1 + Submeriane - Fuji 800Z film
nice photos. really like the b/w one.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
ReplyDeleteI shall do a post sometime soon with the rest of that set.