On 2012-04-07 06:43:09 -0700, Robert Coe said:

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:36:11 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
: On 2012-04-06 18:04:28 -0700, tony cooper said:
:
: On 6 Apr 2012 21:38:08 GMT, Andrew Reilly
: wrote:
:
: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:47:19 -0400, tony cooper wrote:
:
: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:33:37 -0400, Robert Coe wrote:
:
: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 09:52:43 -0700 (PDT), RichA
: wrote:
: : http://canada.shop.lomography.com/cameras
:
: A couple of possibilities:
: 1. That's all they make for film these days.
: 2. You blundered onto a leftover April Fool's site.
:
: Bob
:
: Are you joking? Those are all cameras specifically sold for lomography
: enthusiasts. They each have features used by people who like this
: genre.
:
: Just checked: Flickr has 11882 lomo-related *groups*, and over a million
: and a half photos tagged "lomo". So yes, they're fairly popular in
: certain circles.
:
: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/lomo/interesting/
:
: I think that some of them (photos) look pretty nice, and some of my
: friends have taken great photos with them. I suspect that the sense of
: achievement that must come with getting any correctly exposed frames at
: all must account for some of the appeal.
:
: Cheers,
:
: I recognize that some people like lomography and buy cameras for this
: purpose. To me, they look my mistakes in regular photography.
:
: It is not quite my idea of great photography, but I have fun playing
: with some of the Lomo effects I have available with my iPhone. The
: iPhone usually takes better shots than this, but as you said, some
: people like the effect. ;-)
: http://db.tt/o8tFegT3
:
: No film was harmed in the production of the above shot.

I'd never heard of lomography until Tony replied to my comment earlier in this
thread. But I think I'm starting to get it. The stuff we submitted to the SI
"Bad Pictures" mandate a few years ago was (unintentional) lomography!

Bob

There you go!

Lomography is producing the image we work to avoid, but which some,
with deliberately scuzzy cheap equipment, and some via questionable
(but fun) post processing manage to produce.

....and then there are those who seem to produce those shots without any
cheap cameras or deliberate PP. ;-)


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Regards,

Savageduck