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No need to despair! Even though some of the most deeply-rooted mental images and cultural codes are hard to re-program, there are some routines you can shake up really easily. Some people like to call it “inspiration”. Just follow these easy steps and you’ll be golden.
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Ask yourself this: when you lomograph, is there a routine that guides you? Why do you lomograph this and not that? Even though we try hard not to think, there are always a bazillion different decisions going on in our heads that we don’t even notice.
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Here are ways to shoot endless panoramas using a very simple trick.
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If there were no more minds, there would be no more images – mental or material. The world may not depend upon consciousness, but images in (not to mention of) the world clearly do. And this is not just because it takes human hands to make a picture or a mirror or any other kind of simulacrum […].
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“Lomography is not an inferior representation of our reality, but a realistic representation of a different reality.”
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One morning, as the Lomo LC-A was waking up from anxious dreams, she discovered that in her bed she had been changed into a monstrous, verminous, ultra-wide-angle camera. She lay on her armour-hard back and if she lifted her head up a little, she could see that her sharp and beautiful lens had transformed into a 17mm ultra-wide-angle... (inspired by Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, first published in 1915)
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Are the ‘rules’ for composing a photograph the same as the ‘rules’ for composing an abstract image at some fundamental level?
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It’s seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. If this is true, what happens when we see, feel and capture the world through an ultra-wide-angle lens?
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Diane Arbus * William Eggleston * Mary Ellen Mark * Harry Callahan * Lee Friedlander * Hiroshi Sugimoto * Ralph Eugene Meatyard * Cecil Beaton * Bill Brandt * Robert Adams * Helmut Newton * Richard Avedon * Spongebob Squarepants * Irving Penn * Imogen Cunningham * Robert Mapplethorpe * Walker Evans * You?
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One image captures a moment but two images tell a story. Placing images into a sequence is an essential element of visual thinking.
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Technical innovations give birth to brand new fields of creation. We should not allow ourselves to be guided by the rules and traditions that form the grammar of photography, before a new tool is brought to us.
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"When once you have tasted space, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." (Quote commonly attributed to Italian Renaissance painter and polymath, Leonardo da Vinci, however no source has been verified as of yet)
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“The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren’t amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren’t moved.” (British director Peter Brook on what he strives for in theatre)
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Climb a mountain with your eyes closed. The sun comes up when you arrive at the top. Now open your eyes.
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Now shoot! Look at your results and you’ll see it immediately: photos of situations where
you didn’t dare to go close are boring.
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There is a grammar of seeing. You as a Lomographer are able to play with this grammar and invent new symbols, rules and relationships. Just as the poet works with words, the Lomographer works with pictures. Both the poet and the Lomographer endlessly search to find new relationships between themselves and the world.
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Finally got your hands on an LC-Wide? Well start shooting and while you're at it, try to get some inspiration from our list of the 50 things that you must wide angle before you die! LOMO On, folks!
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Intense colours, crisp tones and gorgeous vignettes. Complete with a 17mm ultra-wide-angle Minigon 1 lens, innovative MX button, lightning fast zone-focusing and a choice of full-frame, square or half-frame photo formats. The LOMO LC-Wide: the latest innovation in the LOMO legacy.
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We want to say a huge "THANK YOU" to the "creators" of Rumble in the Pond who made this Lomo book a success!
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Check out these awesome shots taken with the Fisheye!
