Lomography

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• Tipster Of The Day: Saturation Failure Resolved

  
  by scapegoat
  posted 10 months ago
  5 comments and 5 votes

  Whenever a Lomographic boredom occurs, a solution is then formulated immediately in order to supplement the creative troubles we're going through. On this state of urgency, it unexpectedly brings out the hidden brilliance in all of us and we will never be the same again.

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• Tipster Of The Day: Coloured Dimensions You Can Almost Touch

  
  by scapegoat
  posted 11 months ago
  6 comments, 1 submission, and 5 votes

  A Color Splash does not only emits the various spiritual forces and compulsions of its Chakras on your shots, it can also make everything you thought flat into a life-like portrait of your world.

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• Tipster Of The Day: Infinite Encounters Of The Plastic Kind

  
  by scapegoat
  posted 11 months ago
  6 comments and 4 votes

  Using film cameras at this time and age is already enough to alienate the person sitting next to us that it will instantly give an impression about us not being ahead of the modern world and still have a lot of things to cope with.

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• Tipster Of The Day: Dodgy Little Piece Of Black Metal

  
  by scapegoat
  posted 11 months ago
  4 comments and 1 vote

  Sometimes it is good to be reminded of the most simplest things you can still do that you might have overlooked. Since the stress of those various complexities in our analogue life can be unbearable that it is such a breath of fresh hair when you try to confront and revisit the basics we used to know...

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• A 35mm Effect on Medium Format Film!

  
  by riki_87
  posted 11 months ago
  12 comments and 6 votes

  This tip consists of creating a 35mm effect in while using medium format film. What you will need is a piece of a 35mm film exposed - but without nothing on the film, something to fix the film with, some medium format film and of course a camera as well.

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• Masked Supersampler

  
  by zulupt
  posted 11 months ago
  15 comments and 7 votes

  Use a paper mask to create a different photo or minimovie, the following modification is temporary and you can take it off anytime you like. The process is simple but it takes a little bit of patience and a steady hand to do it.

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• Tipster Of The Day: From The Ground Up

  
  by scapegoat
  posted 11 months ago
  6 comments, 1 submission, and 1 vote

  Out of excitement upon taking your self-portrait, it seems like you got yourself entangled helplessly with that 10-meter cable release you just bought that it's impossible for you to get out of it now. Spare yourself from this embarrassment and let your toes do the job for you the next time around. How so? read on...

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• Tipster Of The Day: Hot Chocolate For The Lomographic Soul

  
  by scapegoat
  posted 12 months ago
  5 comments and 1 vote

  Instead of ending up stuck inside your bedroom while you snug your favourite pillow under the sheets today, why not turn off that heater, put on some thermal gloves and don't forget to load a roll of film into your LC-A because...

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• Tipster Of The Day: The Superwide Samplerama

  
  by scapegoat
  posted about 1 year ago
  3 comments and 2 votes

  These dynamic shots we always get from these various multi-lensed cameras such as the Supersampler that can freeze-frame your time and space into four sequential analogue duplicates and rendering them as if it was a very short and sweet two-second Lomographic daydream...

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• Tipster Of The Day: Multiple Fader Deluxe

  
  by scapegoat
  posted about 1 year ago
  3 comments and 1 vote

  On taking snapshots, you always rely on whatever there is your immediate surroundings has and it is up to your own intuition to decide when is the right time to press that shutter button of the camera you fully trust, hoping that it will faithfully reproduced as exactly as what you saw in your viewfinder. (Un)fortunately, this is not the case with this camera...

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• Tipster Of The Day: I Flash You, You Split Me.

  
  by scapegoat
  posted about 1 year ago
  3 comments and 2 votes

  For some regions are already experiencing heavy monsoons on a daily basis while to some who are living on the other hemisphere of the globe are starting to feel the first chill of autumn to sweep on their lovely cheeks.

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• Tipster Of The Day: Can You Release My Cable?

  
  by scapegoat
  posted about 1 year ago
  3 comments and 1 vote

  On taking photos at low light conditions especially at night when long exposures are inevitable they say to hold your breath, let your index finger depress the shutter button and just wait for your LC-A's second click.

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• Tipster Of The Week: With Or Without Lubikin

  
  by scapegoat
  posted about 1 year ago
  11 comments and 4 votes

  By now, you must have heard of the new king of Lomotown- the "Lubitel 166+":http://www.lomography.com/lubitel166+/about made its debut recently together with his faithful assistant, the very optimistic Lubikin which exclusively is in charge on any of the camera's internal 35mm affairs thus making the Lubitel a very un-modern but hip, bi-format twin lens reflex camera of its kind.

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• Tipster Of The Day: The Perfekt Stretsche

  
  by scapegoat
  posted about 1 year ago
  one comment and 3 votes

  If you're one of those who is fascinated by this lens swinging mucho - the "Horizon Perfekt":http://shop.lomography.com/horizon/ - but also daunted by the fact that it takes too wide photos that you think you're not the kind of person to have a face enough to be taken by it...

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• Tipster Of The Day: Analogue Pixelization

  
  by scapegoat
  posted about 1 year ago
  3 comments and 3 votes

  Recently, in an effort for the film purists to co-exist with the inevitable digital dominance, we were told about the technicalities of how to digitise your lovely lo-fi lomographs with what they call "PPI and DPI":http://beta.lomography.com/magazine/blog/2008/09/24/digital-grain-pixel-pain and its practical uses in our daily life.

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