LOMOGraphy is.....

[viix]

lomo is...
...A DISEASE.. juz like all those posers and wannabes outside cineleisure and heeren and many place else... a pity for the youths who gotten so obsessed with their identity disease..

 

[marcwang]

Hmm....... I guess lomography can be classified as a different branch of photography. No doubt its frigging overhyped, but I must agree (IMHO) that some lomo shots are really artistic. The LOMO Kompact is OVERPRICED no doubt, but the shots are really interesting(IMHO). Art is not about perfection, art is about fufilling your inner self and stirring your soul. It stirred mine. In some way, the simplicity of lomography allows its users a freedom of expression, that complicated cameras can sometimes hinder. Don't complicate the 2 branches of photography, appreciate each as it is. Thats my take. Overhyped, but still art.

 

[burningacid]

i tink watever it is, the pics r there to provide an insight to hw the photographers see the world. it may b good , it may b bad, it all depends to the individual... ba

 

[Zplus]

LOMOgraphy is.....
sticking my G3 with a vingnetting telecon and then taking 4 shots continuously with saturation +2, sharpness -2 and handshaking all the time....


Ooops, forgot... I have to arrange the 4 pics in a rectangle and then resize it smaller... ur... maybe a bit of gaussian blur here and there...


There! I am now a Canon lomographer...

 

[andylee]

lomo sounds vulgar in cantonese

Yeah, you remind me that there is one tecno song call TUI.LEI.LOMO... :bsmilie:

 

[floppy-eared]

lomography is really good fun for those of us who have had a chance to try it out. the lca's a simple, compact, fully mechanical camera, the lens is sharp, the exposure is good (especially for night shots) and the camera feels really solid in the hands.. as some of you have said, there are moments when this camera just happens to be the one i "feel" like bringing out..

unfortunately, most people who have the LCA take pretty crap pics with it cos they think it's a "shoot from the hip" sort of camera when it really isn't.. you need to still consider, at least for a second or two, what you wanna get before you press the shutter.

the good side of it, however, is that it does train you to get better at estimating distances and watching your exposure - which means you can actually become a better overall photographer..

just my two cents worth..

see info on my LCA http://www.geocities.com/plaincongee/lca

 

[viix]

lomography is really good fun for those of us who have had a chance to try it out. the lca's a simple, compact, fully mechanical camera, the lens is sharp, the exposure is good (especially for night shots) and the camera feels really solid in the hands.. as some of you have said, there are moments when this camera just happens to be the one i "feel" like bringing out..

unfortunately, most people who have the LCA take pretty crap pics with it cos they think it's a "shoot from the hip" sort of camera when it really isn't.. you need to still consider, at least for a second or two, what you wanna get before you press the shutter.

the good side of it, however, is that it does train you to get better at estimating distances and watching your exposure - which means you can actually become a better overall photographer..

just my two cents worth..

see info on my LCA http://www.geocities.com/plaincongee/lca

Still, the lomo isn't any camera I would want to own. I had many pictures done in my fully mechnical minolta camera that lomo can ONLY do. Basically a lomo can never satisfy a control freak like me. Lomo is a LAZY man's camera. Yes, you do take time considering what shot to take, still it's a lazy man cam. Anology: Just like how you decide what you want to eat for lunch vs you actually preparing lunch itself.

 

[green_leaf]

Actually taste is subjective.

One man's meat could be another man's poison.

Not everyone likes close up shots of insects making love or shots of pointy facades behind a saliva spitting half fish, half lion statue.

Why limit yourself to so many endless possibilities?

If this form of "art" does not work for you, just move on, explore your own and enhance it.

Bashing it is in a way, unprofessional and highly reflective of your own persona.

I agree with you.
Is photography to most people a form of art or just a form of technical and
equipment comparing party??

Yes i understand that equipment increase the variety of shooting style, but too engross into investing equipments than realising the way you approach life and see the world as a never-ending performance, is too pathetic.

Concerning about beauty? What is art? what is Beauty??
Seldom people can truly understand.
Some say whatever looks good is beauty, bla bla bla...
Then i shall say the person do not turly understand the meaning of it.
Go read up on Thomas Aquinas or maybe Fredich Nietzsche?

It may help some understand the importance of Art in this society we are living in.

 

[tomcat]

Surely we can also achieve the same 'artistic' effects using our expensive SLR/DSLR with a crappy lens or a diffuser/soft focus filter on a L-lens and shooting from the hips or with our eyes closed without thinking... :dunno:

Come to think of it, those people who have front/back focussing problems with the 10D cameras can console themselves that they have got a digital LOMO and are now qualified to be called LOMOgraphers...

Interesting article on "Why I don't like LOMOgraphy" here

 

[viix]

I agree with you.
Is photography to most people a form of art or just a form of technical and
equipment comparing party??

Yes i understand that equipment increase the variety of shooting style, but too engross into investing equipments than realising the way you approach life and see the world as a never-ending performance, is too pathetic.

Concerning about beauty? What is art? what is Beauty??
Seldom people can truly understand.
Some say whatever looks good is beauty, bla bla bla...
Then i shall say the person do not turly understand the meaning of it.
Go read up on Thomas Aquinas or maybe Fredich Nietzsche?

It may help some understand the importance of Art in this society we are living in.

Not many people know art. Lots of people abuse the word art. Just because they think it looks good, or can't fit the concept into any proper school of thoughts, they call it art. Art is to have a meaning and purpose, not plain snappy shooting with a LOMO.. my statement still stands: lomo is a bad PHOTOGRAPHIC habit. It's like eating junk food and calling it a proper meal. Again, my stand is not that using expensive DSLR or watever camera can produce pictures just like a lomo, but that why spend $$$ on a crappy over hyped product when a mid range consumer digital is more cost effective? And yet can shoot proper pictures?

 

[SniperD]

Lomography is a conscious effort to awake the unconscious state of out innermost abstract ideas. A mixture of wonder, bewilderment & a sense of adventure.

 

[YSLee]

Ah, a typical pretentious arty-farty description for a pretentious arty-farty camera. Very apt.

 

[elutris]

I don't care much for lomography as a brand name.

I see lomography more as a photography technique and attitude. Which means that I can take lomographic shots be it with my LOMO LC-A or my SLR.

 

[viix]

I see lomography more as a photography technique and attitude.

.... which translates to a bad photographic habit and a denial that they have a perception problem.. :bsmilie:

 

[elutris]

.... which translates to a bad photographic habit and a denial that they have a perception problem.. :bsmilie:

well if that's what you think.

 

[elutris]

Not many people know art. Lots of people abuse the word art. Just because they think it looks good, or can't fit the concept into any proper school of thoughts, they call it art. Art is to have a meaning and purpose, not plain snappy shooting with a LOMO.. my statement still stands: lomo is a bad PHOTOGRAPHIC habit. It's like eating junk food and calling it a proper meal.

Well really then, what is your defination of junk food? While touring around the US and interacting with the Americans for a few months, I found that they considered hamburgers and pizzas a proper meal and were amused when the europeans and asians called it junk food.

So really, what's rubbish to you may very well be art in someone else's eyes.

Again, my stand is not that using expensive DSLR or watever camera can produce pictures just like a lomo, but that why spend $$$ on a crappy over hyped product when a mid range consumer digital is more cost effective? And yet can shoot proper pictures?

People (well I didn't anyway) don't buy a Lomo to shoot 'proper' photos. Whatever 'proper' means to you. Have you used a Lomo before?

 

[Belle&Sebastain]

there is a simple reason why we stop selling lomos cameras! PM me for details :devil:

 

[Cheesecake]

i like lomo cameras.

but i dun like the heavy price tags that comes with it. afterall, the built of these cameras are terrible. but i enjoy taking photos with my holga!

holga is the next best thing to my FM2n!!

 

[elutris]

i like lomo cameras.

but i dun like the heavy price tags that comes with it. afterall, the built of these cameras are terrible. but i enjoy taking photos with my holga!

holga is the next best thing to my FM2n!!

That's why I refused to buy the lomography society's LC-A for >$300 and bought it through ebay.com for less than $80.

 

[viix]

Well really then, what is your defination of junk food? While touring around the US and interacting with the Americans for a few months, I found that they considered hamburgers and pizzas a proper meal and were amused when the europeans and asians called it junk food.

So really, what's rubbish to you may very well be art in someone else's eyes.

Very simply again, a perception problem of the americans :bsmilie:
Overhyped by the culture of burgers and pizzas.. ever been to a true american family's home? Ever tasted a family meal? That is what's called a proper meal. Burgers, that's juz convinience in an urban society that brings ill health to the people for the sake of quick turnaround and quick profit, just like the lomo ;p

People don't buy a Lomo to shoot 'proper' photos.

there you have it, NOT TO SHOOT 'PROPER' photos, isn't it 'BAD' photographic habit?

Oh, well.. I understand the need for people to justify their LOMOs after spending a considerable amount of money on it.
In advertising/marketing terms, it's the typical post-purchase behaviour of consumers.

Cheers!