sitemeter

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Be a lomographer without lomo cameras 2

Yoko introduced some ideas about using other equipments to create lomography. In fact, to create pictures with lomo style does not fully rely on hardwares, using softwares could also achieve it. Nowadays, lomo fans are following one of the guide principles of lomography, they try different ways to make lomography as cheap as possible. Because the films become increasingly expensive, lomography is no longer cheap and affordable.
People start to find the way using digital techniques to transform Lomo, but digital cameras could never achieve the texture and accidental effects that film cameras will provide. However, the development of digital design softwares facilitates the transformation of lomo.

Toycamera Analog Colors is one of the most popular software that is used to adjust normal photographs to Lomo photographs. It follows different styles to adjust the colors and texture of images, users only need to click a single button to achieve a certain style.
Unfortunately I failed to download a proof edition of this software, but I found several sample images from it's official site.



Another interesting software is called Polaroid. As it's name refers to, this software is specialized at turning normal photos into Polaroid style photos. The colors of the photos changed to another style that gives people the feeling of old pictures. What funny is, when processing the photos, the software make users to shake the mouse just like people shaking the polaroid films.
Here are two samples of turning Lucy's photo into Polaroid style.


These transfered photos are less focused and clear than the original ones, but somehow brought the sense of dream and softness. Colors are adjusted and tends to have a main tone of pink purple. Compare to the digital photos, the feeling of lines and edges are more obvious, this creates a softer texture.
I would like to hear Lucy's own opinion of these changes as well, hope that she will like them.

No comments:

Post a Comment