Lomo Letdown
Is it just me?
I got a new lomo a couple months ago. I love it because it is fun and easy to take along and is quick to take a photo. My digital elph is small but not quick to take a picture (delay turning on, etc.). My D60 is quick to take a picture but is huge and heavy. CLICK TO READ MORE….
But I’m disappointed beccause the photos do not have that traditional Lomo-look. Vignetting is rare, the colors are no more saturated or contrasty than any other camera I have. The photos are good, but not unique.
I’m beginning to notice something else, too. Alot of the really good “lomo shots” (the ones w/ intense colors, etc.) have been tweaked in photoshop to look that way. They were not inherently like that coming out of developing.
This pisses me off. I was led to believe by the masses (and the people who promote the lomo at lomography.com) that the camera was responsible for images that have a unique quality about them.
I think it’s wrong to post a “lomo photo” online that looks “lomoesque” and not tell the viewer that it looks that way because it was made that way in photoshop. At some point it becomes photoshop-art and not “photography”.
People over at PhotoSig.com get really mad if they think or find out that you’ve photoshopped an image (beyond basic exposure-correcting, sharpening, etc.). At first that baffled me, but now I see why.
I got a photography magazine yesterday and it had all these contest-winners in the front. Most of them were Photoshopped images! I don’t mean exposure-corrected, I mean COPY/PASTE LAYERED photoshop images! THIS IS NOT PHOTOGRAPHY! I’m sorry, it’s NOT! It angers me that these people would be given PHOTOGRAPHY awards when it’s photoshop-art, not photography.
I LOVE photoshop and I love to photoshop my images, but I ALWAYS say so when I do.
Just irks me.