Posts Tagged ‘lomo’
sifting through my library
I was sifting through some of my old lomo photos and realized that I never posted some of them.
Four Corners Dark
I just stumbled across this blog of Delaware based, Toy Camera photographer Nic Nichols. In his blog, you will find a lot of reviews, opinions, news, links and various other entries on Holga, Lomo and other lo-fi photography topics.
For those of you thinking about venturing into this type of fun photography, this may be a very useful and inspiring resource.
new lomo photos
My friend Linsy gave me a roll of 35mm Fuji slide film a while back, but I never got around to using it. So when I sent the roll in to Digiprint, I was excited to see what came back.
Here are a few samples…
[busy streets of divi]
[need i say more?]
[halfway]
[orange sunset]
[rakenroll]more lomo pics
Another roll came back from Digiprint, and here are five of my fave pics from the set.
[morning transit]
[sunset buildings, dirty window]
[lambingan]
[emo time]
[three gels]Hongkong Lomo
For some reason (and for the second time in a row), I have had one roll of unexposed film sent back to me. I have no idea if I’m doing something wrong, if I’m leaving the film in the camera too long (hence the opening of the camera by accident), or if I’m just plain unlucky.
[double exposed kan]
[moto mascot in HK]
[sampling the street food, HK style]
[chatting up a customer]afternoon silhouette
Out of the new roll that came back from Digiprint, this turned out to be my fave take. Ironic, as I took the least time composing or actually thinking about the shot… and it’s not a typically great photo. but I enjoy the cloud formation and weird building tops.
[click on image for larger view]Lomo Love
For all Lomo lovers out there… this is an event you may want to check out at the BlackSoup Projects Gallery over at the Cubao-X (Marikina Shoe Expo).
Thanks for the heads up, Jay
[click on image for larger view]wedding in lomo
I haven’t really been posting a lot this month — partially because I’ve been busy with a lot of other stuff, and also partly because I have been bitten by the “lazy bug”. I have a few Drafts waiting in the wing, but most of them are written half-assed, so I probably won’t even bother editing (much less) publishing them.
However, as a bit of a “get-up-and-go” post, here are a few photos from a lovely wedding I attended last Saturday with a bunch of friends. The bride is Francesca [Babits to friends] Guadarrama and the groom is Graham Russell.
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[click on photo for larger view]picks of the litter
So I had another roll developed from my Lomo. Here are a few picks of the litter:
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discovery of the day
Being a cheap bastard, I always look for ways to save money. However, ever since I got my Lomo cam, I’ve been shelling out a bit of cash for film, developing my rolls, burning the photos to cds, etc. My passion for photography was clashing with my natural instincts to be a tightwad (it runs in my dad’s side of the family).
But today, I made a discovery that may just save me a bit of money…in the long run.
I’ve been going over to Digiprint to have my photos printed, and the film rolls burned to CDs, as my previous encounter with Kodak left me wanting. By sheer coincidence, when I passed by their [Digiprint] St. Francis outlet, their printer was producing funky colors, so I decided not to take the chance. Kodak was the only other alternative in a walkable radius. I was a bit hesitant to bring my digital copies over, but my obsessive compulsiveness to have the photos printed today was stronger. Besides, I thought to myself, they’re already processed the natural way…without any color correction, so why not?
When I got to Kodak, I delightedly discovered their printing services were actually cheaper than Digiprint’s. (Php 6.50 for 50 prints and above versus Php 8.50 per print for Loyalty Card holders)
So now, I will go to Digiprint to have my rolls of film burned to CDs (Php 150 for up to 3 rolls in one CD versus Php 250 for 3 rolls in one CD in Kodak), but have my prints done in Kodak.
So to make a long story short, printing in Kodak is cheaper than in Digiprint. But Digital burning to CDs is cheaper in the latter.
Now I have to check out Fuji…
first roll: crap
After waiting agonizingly for weeks, I finally got my Lomo LC-A+ camera pack and Colorsplash Flash. Excited as I was, I decided to shoot like crazy and take just about anything and everything. I was fooling around with colors, experimenting with the settings, and hitting that multiple exposure switch like I was running out of film. I was pretty confident that I would get some cool photos out of the roll, as I had tripped out on my five year old Holga 120N previously.
But when I got my prints back, I found that I had produced crap, pretty much. There was nothing lomographic about my photos and a lot of the shots came out blurred. Charge it to experience. I do, however, have my doubts about some of my photos. As I had my film developed in a Kodak center, a few of the shots were not printed — especially those double exposed and with strange colors…which leads me to believe that they actually color corrected some of the photos. But who knows. My first roll wasn’t a total waste though, as I think I was able to come up with a few shots that were worth saving. My pick of the bunch:
[click photo for larger view]My second roll is now with Digiprint, and I’m just waiting to see how this roll comes out. Hopefully, better.
creating a lomo effect
As a follow up to my previous post, I decided to put a simple tutorial on ow to create a lomo effect for your digital photos — scanned or otherwise. Of course, it won’t be exactly the same as an actual lomo photo, but it pretty much emulates the effect.
So here goes…
- 1. Open your photo to edit. Let’s use this one as a sample.
- 2. Apply a Lens Correction Filter (follow the steps below)
- a. Filter
- b. Distort
- c. Lens Correction
- d. adjust the VIGNETTE and MIDPOINT to your liking
your image should look like this:
- 3. Select the Channels Tab in your workspace and click on the Red Channel
- 4. Adjust the brightness / contrast (follow the steps below)
- a. go to Image
- b. select Adjustments
- c. select Brightness / Conrast
- d. increase the contrast to your liking
- 5. Select the Green Channel and repeat Step 4
- 6. Select the RGB Channel to see the results
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- 7. You can take it a bit further, by Adjusting the Levels (CTRL+L) and use the slider to your liking…
- 8. …and even one step further by placing more color on the photo by Adjusting the Hue / Saturation (CTRL+U)
and your final photo will look like this:
good luck on your experiments… ^_^
lomography in DPP
Digital Photographer Philippines announced it’s new issue coming out…and for the first time, they’re actually focusing on film (of course, the effect can be manipulated digitally [see photo below], but that’s a different story). I haven’t gotten my hands on a copy yet, so I’ll just have to wait and see what the rest of the mag’s gonna feature.
It’s also perfect timing, as my cousin just shipped home my order from adorama and amazon: a lomo lc-a camera pack and a colorsplash flash.
read more on the new issue of DPP.
