Lomogoraphy Insparation

Lomography is a company trademark that is in an attempt to bring back film photography. It uses lots of camera designs from Russia. It uses the designs and remakes them to sell. The also stock lots of different kinds of film ranging from different tints to standardised film, with the added extra of 16mm movie camera film and 110 film. They have developed their own range of cameras which include the 360 degree camera and the super sampler, which all have very unique and imaginative uses. I have used both of these cameras and due to me using back and white I got very different effects than the examples on lomographys website.

They also run a blog where I found that they show off their products and look into different techniques which I want to try a few of them. Such as:

• Double exposures
• Film destruction
• 35mm colour slides
• 360 degree cameras
• super sampler cameras
• expired film
• cross processing
• ect.

The platform in which lomography works is in the end a company who is making money, but there products have inspired many different people in there community to stretch out and test the limits of film and all the difference it can be, compared to a digital camera I can think of so many more ways a film camera can do that the digital couldn't recreate at all in post production, let alone in camera.I find that lomogrpahy users all have found what they like to do, some are still experimenting and tying things others have already done, but always add there own twist and skill to it.

This is a screen shot from the first page on there website of uploads from there users all the images are taken my some different and are all using different techniques and all take pictures in different ways. You have double exposures, fish eyes, cross processing, black and white photography, with all this depth and all the different ideas I'm sure lomogrpahy will be a big influence as I continue to use film

They have a selection of cameras and lots of starter kits to introduce people to film, such as the Diana which is a box camera and uses both 120 and 35mm film and was based of an old camera Produced in the 1960 in Hong Kong but very quickly became less popular due to other alternatives. I find that they have made analog photography more into the main stream than it has been in the past few years.