“Lomography is the style of pop photography based on the quirky cameras by the Austrian camera manufacturer known as Lomo…these cameras, and (all of them in the Lomo line) are usually poor technical cameras.”
Lomography is seen as a great art movement and encourages photographers to break free and get candid, coming with its very own rules, equipment and techniques; it requires minimal attention to the small technical details. When looking at what it’s all about, I see that Lomography is more or so a way that allows to express their personality and who they are more as well as being able to be more open – minded and creative with their photography in general.
Lomography cameras also seem to range only from around £40-£70, so not a great expense at all yet gives that pop gel coloured aesthetic to people’s photos.
Gives this shot a very retro pop green colour which makes the image seem cryptic and dream like, it draws the viewer in by the wave and raindrop effect.Here i’m able to see that they have been able to use shutter speed successfully with their lomography camera, and also due to the pop filter the camera can create it makes the atmosphere of the city shot they took feel so much more modern and retro, including a sense of fast motion within the image which gives the shot more energy and mood due to the shutter speed used with the camera.
Diana camera –
“The Diana camera is a plastic – bodied toy camera using 120 roll film and 35 mm film. The camera has a simple plastic meniscus lens.”
It produces hazy, dream-like, radiant, lo-fi images on 120mm film and costs around £70 which is an affordable price to create aesthetic pictures and not such an expense.
The Diana Camera
There are some cool experimental techniques you can do with the Diana camera such as:
.”dreamy doubles” which is double exposure, being able to have the option to frame as much or as little as you like after each shot.
An example of dreamy doubles, it makes it super effective how they are both different colours which combine and contrast with each perfectly to make a good double exposure shot. Also to me it seems like it’s a scene from a film where they are at a party, because everything seems drunk like and hazy with the blur of their face against each other.
.”sprocket – full of romance” – Being able to do incredible lo-fi shots with sprocket roles and exposing the films sprocket holes.
Due to the sprocket roles, it gives a 18th century feel to it and being a retro pop yellow shade gives the impression that its summer whether if it really is or not when it was took. I’m really drawn to the casted shadows, with lomography cameras they seem to soften shadows instead of sharpen, this makes the shot more calming and delicate.
. “red-hot red scales” – You can achieve fiery redscale photos by loading the camera with lomography redscale film and makes your images glow with a warm honey tone.
Due to the red scale film, it makes the shot of the wheel seem like its on fire and that the clouds are red smoke coming off of it. It creates an atmosphere of danger and makes the dark subjects of the image stand out as black with the rest being in a moody red.
There are many different film rolls you can load the camera with to create different effects and tones within your shots, which evolves your photography with lomography completely.
Another camera that I found for Lomography, is the “Lomography Sprocket Rocket Panoramic Film Camera” costing £50. Its a 35mm compact camera including a super wide angle lens for panoramas. it’s the first “analogue camera to be fitted with a reverse gear, allowing you to rewind and remix your photo.”
Lomography Sprocket Rocket Panoramic Film CameraThe sprockets really fascinate me and seem very ‘touristy’, especially when taking shots of the city or any landscape shot, it frames the city which seems to be in a blue filter with the red upon the sprockets really can draw the viewer into the shot. For this shot, the sprocket helps with the melancholy with the dark atmosphere of the shot, because the sprockets make it seem as though you are watching through an old tape full of grief. The gentle black and white film creates a sense of confusion and feeling lost.A very different kind of shot and very surreal but when paired with the sprockets it makes it again seem like from the 18th century and seems like a comic strip because of the deer peering off into the misty grey polluted city.
Caitlink photography 