Be a lomographer without lomo cameras!

Do you addict to lomography? Do you only have one or two lomo cameras? Are you bothered when taking your lomo camera with you everywhere? Do you still concern about your own lomography shooting skills? Or Do you have no lomo camera at all? So, what makes these things happen? Actually, the answer is diverse and common. These situations could happen to every normal lomography enthusiast. Sometimes, the reason just might be that you have no time to buy it or your current funds would not suffice at the moment for buying one more camera. But what can we do with these common problems? I mean, as a lomographer? Do you still remember the “full name” of Lomo, “let our lives be magic and open”. Lomographer certainly have flexible and creative solution to deal with them. Firstly, it is a time to review our 10 golden rules of lomography and we will see the key from it.

1. Take your Lomo with your everywhere you go.

2. Use it anytime, day and night.

3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it.

4. Try the shot from the hip.

5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as closely as possible.

6. Do not think.

7. Be quick.

8. you don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film.

9. Afterwards, either.

10. Don’t worry about any rules

(http://www.rachro.com/LomoRules.html)

The last sentence usually is the most important one and it absolutely works on our situation. Therefore, be an eligible lomographer, forget any rules and find your own creative way to solve your problem! Today’s ‘we luv lomo’ will give you some trendy solutions to help you finding the ways.

1. If you don’t have lomo camera or it inconveniently take it with you, then how about your mobile phone? It suppose to be with you anytime. So, today we got tiny lomo camera lens that could stick on your mobile phone and take pictures with lomo special effects. It only costs 2-3 dollars! （it also could be used on your digital camera) It definitely matches lomo's notion, just shoot anytime in anywhere.

As you choose different lens, they will have various lomo special effects like wide angle, stretch, spilt images, heat frame, filter, soft lens and classic vignette angle.

2. If you still don’t feel comfortable or convenient about put some lens on your mobile phone, there is another way you could go. Download a free lomography application in your mobile phone or software for your laptop.

(http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lomo-camera/id318345320?mt=8)

Is the second one making more sense to you as same as mine?

3. if you are unbelievably not interested in both two techniques upstairs…then, make yourself one with paper or even money. I am not kidding because someone made it successfully. There is an amazing tutorial video might help you with your future unique “lomo camera”.

I was very curious of all these ways to be a free lomographer and I got some personal experiences that could help you to choose. The first one, plastic lomo camera lens I bought a series of it and I took several pictures with them. Honestly, it somehow disappointed me even I didn’t expect a lot before I used. However, it did make a lot of fun on simple, boring mobile phone shooting and some of its effects even more interesting than lomo cameras like star/heart filter. It definitely matches lomo’s original notion, just shoot anytime in anywhere, and it worth its price.

The second recommendation, lomography application did better than the plastic lens and the lomo effects of this one are more closer to the photography which took by real lomo cameras. This lomo application does not only work in iphone but also has different editions for diverse mobile phones and all for free. It really save my time to do some photoshop procedure stuffs after I take photos with mobile phone and I could directly upload to my facebook or twitter for sharing.

I got no comment of the third one because I am always bad at hand-made stuff. However, I think it will be an amazing experience if you finally made it, so I strongly recommend this one and I might try it later, I almost see the most ugly hand-made lomo camera will be occured in the world!