The beady, googling lenses of your lomographic cameras are starving for color. You only hope to keep them satisfied is to constantly supply a steady diet of all the vibrant hues, tints, and shades of the rainbow. Don't merely rely on mother nature - you have the power to create and manipulate her world of color as you see fit. Who cares if there has never been a blue human being - get out your gear and create one! How about a purple cat, an orange banana, or a riot of streaked, colored lines? Using the following 8 techniques, the control is in your hands! 1. Long Exposure & Colored Flash Sharp, colored foregrounds set against blurred, streaked, natural backgrounds. Say hello to purple faces, bright red noses, green chests, and orange hands. Look closely at your subjects - the movement of the camera will produce ghostly streaks and auras around them - the final remnants of their pre-flashed bodies. 2. Long Exposure & Off the Camera Colored Flash Just because your hot-shoe begs to be mated with an equally hot electronic flash, that doesn't mean that a bit of separation won't do your lomographs a world of good! Separate flash and camera to create new flashed light perspectives - over the forehead, under the chin, behind the head, around the corner, down from above. 3. Instant Colored Flash The monochrome effect! Sync your exposure and colored flash at exactly the same moment to splash your image with a blast of pure tinted light. Use stronger and deeper colors (dark blue, red, or purple) for darker and more dramatic results. Use lighter colors to let a little more tonal depth come squeezing through. 4. Daytime Colored Flash Who said that flashes are only for the night! Highlight your subject with a burst of colored light during a daytime setting to add priceless mood and content to your image. This is especially striking in dual light situations - where the sun in shining brightly but your subject is surrounded by a light shadow. 5. Cross Processing Load your camera with Slide film and ask the friendly developer to cross process it with negative film chemicals. Hold on tightly to your seat as you are slapped with an other-worldly intensity of tan, yellow, turquoise, blue, magenta, and red tones. Each slide film will produce different color results - you never know what you gonna get! 6. Natural Over Exposures No flash required. Open your camera shutter, and allow it to go beyond the usual proper exposure time. Indoor bars and restaurants take on bright red, yellow, and greenish hues - moving lights streak across your image and people become shadowy blurs. Outdoor lights flood across the horizon and the moonlit sky turns shades of purple. 7. Streaked Abstracts Keep that shutter open! Aim it at a bright source of light, or several of them. That glittering disco ball, that group of streetlights, or a night-time traffic light will do nicely. While the shutter is open, move the camera around, side to side, top to bottom. Longer exposures equals brighter pictures, slower movement equals stronger lines. 8. Natural Daytime Shots Train your mind to look for intense and odd colors in ordinary daytime light. (Click!) your shutter at the bright yellow delivery van, (Click!) again at the deep blue of the sea around you and the waning red and orange of the tropical sunset. Gorgeous, breathtaking color is all around you - command yourself to seek it out with each shot.
	Take your place in Lomographic History Colorsplash-Tester [kalour-;splasch-testa]: a new species of experienced lomographer, characterized by an especially sensitive eye for colors. Plays an outstanding role among lomographers due to his/her extremely sharpened awareness of color, their ability to act, react and shoot from the hip faster than the rest, their unbreakable will to be the first shooter, and their highly developed ability to shoot analog and act digital through high speed scanning and uploading. Using the newest, yet secret, lomographic technologies, Colorsplash Testers will soak up the colors of their habitat like a sponge and digest it into the most colorful lomographs ever. Elected in April 2003, the number of Colorsplash Testers. are limited to only 10 esteemed members of the global Lomographic Community. (lomographic encyclopeadia, page 1256) The Lodown Each Lomographic Colorsplash Tester will receive a secret test sample of one of our highly confidential and brand new Colorsplash products - CS Alpha and CS Beta. While shooting and uploading their gorgeous photos with a quickness, each Colorsplash Tester will have their progress featured on this very website, with an online profile and test shot gallery. All esteemed Testers will win worldwide honor and recognition, but the best 2 of the bunch will receive the ultimate prize of ColorsplashTestChamp! 500000 Lomographers - 10 ColorsplashTesters - 2 ColorsplashTestChamps. Better get going! Application Deadline : Monday, April 28th
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