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November 10, 2005
Lomo-tastic!
One of the reasons I am so interested in Blythes is the (often) amazing photography that the Blythe community produce: in fact, many Blythe owners seem to come from artistic and/or web design backgrounds, which may explain something (Geeky? Obsessive? Yep).
Anywaysup, I found some photos recently which the taker noted as 'Lomo-esque'- very, very saturated colours, slightly out of focus, loud noise and with an odd 'vignette' feature which darkens the outer corners. I had never heard of Lomos before, so I did some investigating- it turns out the Lomo was a camera produced in the Soviet Union for peanuts which has turned into a bit of a pop icon. It is badly made, uses a terrible lense, has fixed, manual focusing, all of which result in vivid (or should that be gaudy?), trippy photos.
It seems to work really well with Blythes.
Stereo Mike and I are going to see how close we can get to Lomo-esque photos: this is our first attempt (click on thumbnail for bigger version):
Left= normal digital, Right= Lomo-esque via Photoshop
Not quite there, but I think the Lomo-esque photo has an oddly charming quality to it. Check out the luminous eyeshadow and the weird glowing footsteps!
Posted by scumkitten at November 10, 2005 12:20 PM
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