Wai said:lomo sounds vulgar in cantonese![]()
floppy-eared said: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
Giantnookie said: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.
green_leaf said: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.
elutris said:I see lomography more as a photography technique and attitude.
viix said:.... which translates to a bad photographic habit and a denial that they have a perception problem.. :bsmilie:
viix said: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.![]()
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?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?
Cheesecake said: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 said: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.
elutris said:People don't buy a Lomo to shoot 'proper' photos.