{"id":79,"date":"2012-12-02T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T09:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-12-12T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:32:54","slug":"the-lomo-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/the-lomo-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The LOMO Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>LOMO effect<\/strong> is a creative photographic effect which makes the resultant captured image substantially different from the original subject. It is named after a plastic camera called the <strong>LOMO<\/strong> LC-A Compact Automat camera, which was originally made by the Russian state&#8217;s <strong>LOMO<\/strong> optical company. The camera was made of plastic and the body was prone to light leakage, hence photos taken with the <strong>LOMO<\/strong> LC-A have a distinctive look that came to be known as lomography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Characteristics of LOMO Effect<\/strong><br \/>\nThe characteristics of the <strong>LOMO effect<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vignetting or darkening around the picture edges which helps frame the shot<\/li>\n<li>High contrast between the light and dark portions of the photo<\/li>\n<li>High colour saturation or intensity, with unrealistic or distorted colours <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Digital photographers can mimic the characteristics of <strong>LOMO effect<\/strong> using photo editing tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro and free editors like Paint.NET and GIMP. This requires post processing of the image including adding a vignette, adjusting the contrast and distorting the colours to mimic the original <strong>LOMO effect<\/strong>. For user of iPhones and other smart devices equiped with a camera, there are apps available which can produce the effect in the camera, so you can review the result before moving on to the next shot.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the subject of the <strong>LOMO effect<\/strong>, and to see samples, check out the following links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lomography\" title=\"Wikipedia: Lomography\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia: Lomography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/techtips.salon.com\/lomo-effect-digital-cameras-2383.html\" title=\"What is the Lomo Effect in Digital Cameras\" target=\"_blank\">What is the <strong>LOMO<\/strong> Effect in Digital Cameras?<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/how-to-make-digital-photos-look-like-lomo-photography\" title=\"How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography\" target=\"_blank\">How To Make Digital Photos Look Like <strong>LOMO<\/strong> Photography<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For smartphone users there are <strong>LOMO effect<\/strong> apps available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/lomo-camera\/id318345320\" title=\"iPhone: LOMO Camera App\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone: <strong>LOMO<\/strong> Camera App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/app\/morelomo\/id337217082?mt=8#\" title=\"iPhone: Morelomo\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone: Morelomo<\/a> allow you to save original and <strong>LOMO<\/strong> photo as same time<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.onemanwithcameralomo&#038;hl=en\" title=\"Android Lomo Camera App\" target=\"_blank\">Android: <strong>LOMO<\/strong> Camera App<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>LOMO effect<\/strong> makes interesting and unique pictures from ordinary subjects. You can achieve the effect using an original <strong>LOMO<\/strong> camera, or with a smartphone plugin, or in post production using your favourite editor.  Which ever way, try the <strong>LOMO effect<\/strong> and see what you can produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LOMO effect is a creative photographic effect which makes the resultant captured image substantially different from the original subject. It is named after a plastic camera called the LOMO LC-A Compact Automat camera, which was originally made by the Russian state&#8217;s LOMO optical company. The camera was made of plastic and the body was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[11,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techco.tv\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}