Digital Colorsplash

Lomography has been covered at length before, but people keep giving me fantastic tips about lomo photos, so I just can't help but going back to the topic again and again. This time, I got a tip about someone who's made a digital version of the Lomo Coloursplash - essentially a cheap camera with a coloured gel in front of the flashgun. What a brilliant idea!

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Lomotomizing photographs

We've told you what Lomography is, how it works, and we've even established that, while the results are rather special, Lomography doesn't magically defy the laws of physics (aw, shucks). But what do you do if you cannot be bothered to actually buy a Lomo camera? Enter the 21st century: What we can't do with cameras, we'll replicate digitally! The upside of this is that there are quite a few different ways to Lomotomize* a photo!

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Is Lomography physically different?

I've written about Lomography once before (if you have no idea what I'm on about, you'll probably wanna have a peek at that post first), and briefly talked about what it is, how it works, and how there seem to be a huge bunch of nutters who love the art-form (I'm one of 'em). The question that remained, though, is 'how can a camera allow you to take special photos'? After all, all cameras adhere to the same laws of physics and optics - so how do Lomo photos manage to look so distinctive and different?

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Lomo photography

A Lomo camera is essentially a really, really low quality camera built in Russia. That doesn't stop it from having a nearly religious following, however, and with the right attitude when wielding one of these cameras, it can be a very liberating photography experience.

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