Lomography Gallery
I have just posted a new gallery page (see link above) that contains all the random shots that were taken on 14th March 2011. “36 exposures” have been chosen to try and capture the personality of those present. Some of the shots are just using the shapes and spaces that most now take for granted in the building.
The images are meant to show the results of using a Lomo LC-A camera. Whilst too expensive for me at the moment, the free Photoshop actions simulate the likely results. Frankly, even if the actions aren’t representative the collection is interesting to look at anyhow and makes for a great set of images.
Thanks to everyone who was photographed / took photographs. If you want credit just drop me a comment 
Planning for randomness
OK, I’ve got a plan. Take the tiny Olympus Micro out with me tomorrow and snap interesting shapes and forms that I can find on the way to work and back and maybe even at work too. Results may vary. I’ll probably waver off onto urban street furniture.
Still, I have a plan. Which is better than most recent Sunday evenings.
Lomography
I’ve found a great little camera called a Lomo LC-A+ (Lomo Compact Automatic). It uses the apparently legendary Minolta 1 lens to produce quirky results which typically include the following characteristics:
Incorrect exposure
Over exposed colours
Light leakage due to the poor construction of the camera itself (a feature?)
Happy Accidents (!)
Vignetting
Surrounding this structured chaos is a subculture called Lomography, it’s interesting, especially the history of the camera and how it was basically saved from disappearing completely after the capitalisation of the Soviet Union.
I would like to be able to afford to buy one of these cameras, but I can’t at the moment (ironic considering it’s history). However, I soon realised that the effects caused by the camera could easily be recreated using photoshop/gimp etc without too much difficulty. To get started fast I grabbed a copy of some photoshop actions like these.
These are my first batch of 24 exposures!
