Appreciating Photography - the Lomo way




The above photos were shot using a digital camera (using camera to take picture of photographs). The actual pictures were shot using a Kodak compact camera, loaded with Lomography brand 35mm colour negative film, ISO 400. Sorry, I have yet to convert the pictures in negative to CD or DVD format which will allow proper upload. Will load more later on, I hope.

I was given a Lomography (lomo) Fisheye analog camera by my friends. My other photography enthusiacs called the lomo camera "toy camera" as the lens were made of plastic. In fact, the entire camera is made of plastic. There's practically nothing NOT plastic.

The first time I tried to take picture with the camera, the "mission" was pretty much a flop. I thought the camera was similar to the usual compact analog camera with the glass lens and was expecting similar quality pictures after developing the first roll of negatives. But, oh my goodness, the pictures were all very grainy, dim and looked pretty much like bad quality pictures! And the focus, a huge failure at that. After seeing the first set of lomo fisheye photographs, I thought it was due to a poor quality negatives and that the negatives were badly developed by the service centre or photo lab. I had a second attempt and this time, I loaded the camera with the film of negatives from the Lomography brand.

The quality was better, yet, the grains "still stay". For a while, I thought it was because I had used the wrong ISO negatives. The overexposure was definitely the result of the wrong ISO negatives used. After analysing the photographs with my phography enthusiac, it was then I came to learn that the grainy effect of the photo was, in fact, the true effect of lomography!!! How silly of me!!! With the advance of technology, I did not bother to find out more about lomo and insisted all along that it was all bad photography to begin with.

The photos seen here were a result of my third attempt with lomo products. This time round, I loaded the lomo film into my Kodak compact camera. The grains are, unfortunately, still there, yet, the colours of some of the pictures were interesting. I would not say that the photography is fantastic or anything, but the hues and the effect - amazing! I have not gotten such effect with my digital camera or seen such with my friend's DSLR's shots. These must truly be the so-called lomo effect.

Alright, that's about it for now. Will show my friends the results of the latest attempts.

Thanks for looking!