Pseudo Lomography tails

I found this site, Digital Photography School, a while back and one day while perusing it came across a post on how to make a digital photo look like a Lomo photograph. Before I go any further, I just want to apologize if any Lomo purists come across this post, as there seems to be an almost cult following in this regard.

Briefly, a Lomo was/is an inexpensive 35 mm, compact, point and shoot camera from Russia sold in the early 1980's. The pictures were often fuzzy and had a characteristic vignette due to poor lens quality. The Lomography motto, "Don't think, just shoot". At some point, photographers did something called cross processing, in which they would shoot color slide film (E6) but process it as if it were color negative film (C41). This resulted in bold often over saturated colors and sometimes very freaky results.

The top photo is one I took last year that was digitally altered, to appear as a Lomograph, using Adobe Photoshop as detailed in the link provided above. Below is the original photo. Needless to say I had to try it out on other photos and the bottom two shots are the Lomo version and original of our Yellow Lab, Abby. It gives each photo a very different feel and turned an otherwise bland Old Red Mill, into a photo with some depth and texture, which is something I really like in a photograph.

There is an entire website and blog devoted to Lomography with examples from the real camera and you can also order a camera if you would like to give it a try. I encourage you to check it out, and also check out the photos, some are truly incredible.