Recently I read an article on Lomo cameras and how the effect can be reproduced with images from digital cameras. It sounded cool, so I decided to try it out. C&C welcome, feel free to post your images as well, it will be fun to see how other people interpret it as well!
Nice image. That said, why not get a real lomo camera and some film,
it is not that expensive, and do the real thing rather than... well you
get the idea.
Here are some lomo images with a variety of lomo cameras:
Thanks,
well, because I first read about it last night around 10pm wanted to try right away and see what this whole fuss is about. The images from the real thing are nice but trying to achieve the same effect with post processing is as close as I can get to mixing the chemicals in the dark room right now.
According to freeonlineclasses.net and the flickr lomo groups, the effect in short is
"One of the most popular photo effects of all time is the lomo effect. This effect mimics the funky retro-looking colors, high contrast, and strong vignette of lomo cameras"
Hmm. "Funky retro-looking colors" shouldn't be too difficult to emulate. I get the impression that older films out there would have color emulsions that are either stronger or weaker than the normal calibrated colors we use now. So, adjustments in color channels and the hue/saturation of the image should be enough to mimic that.
As for high contrast, I see blown out highlights mixed with dark shadows.
I have one of the original Lomo LC-A cameras. The manual is useless to me, being all in Russian, but the camera operation is pretty obvious. I bought the camera for the odd asymeteric color distortion that they are famous for. Sadly, my Lomo takes perfectly good photos. Cursed with a non-faulty unit.
wanted to try right away and see what this whole fuss is about. The images from the real thing are nice but trying to achieve the same effect with post processing is as close as I can get to mixing the chemicals in the dark room right now.