What’s so cool about lomo? It is really a brownie camera with colored filters on the flash. To be honest, if I wasn’t so lazy, I could make the same effect by putting coloured gels on my digital camera or make the effect in photoshop.
But I discovered something else.
I rediscovered photography and play.
Digital photography is great but it blurs the distinction between taking the photo and editing the image. The thing I remember from photography school is not to mix the two. Your headspace is different. Observe your surroundings, interpret your narrative, feel the light. Then shoot variations, bracket and then when you print your photos then you edit the story.
But digital photography changes this process. You can often edit while taking pictures, blending the two processes and inhibiting your creativity and randomness.
Lomo photography takes me back to the old days of analog. Take random pictures, look at the light, use colour as you like, stay spontaneous and random.
That is why I fell in love with photography in the first place. It was a way to immerse myself in a location or with your subjects.
And the other little gem… teaching my son who lives in a world overwhelmed by visual media, where photography is instant, where every image can be edited, deleted by pressing a button, you can always reshoot, that photography the old way is just as good, if not better and creates a totally different experience.
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