The lomo effect...

.. is one of the many funny ways a photograph can be processed, that generates from the analogue picture taking a few decades ago. Back in the eighties you needed the Russian camera Lomo LC-A to achieve this effect, today however the effect can be achieved quite good in photoshop, either with free action downloads or step-by-step instructions. The internet has loads of both actions and tutorials on the subject.

The main characteristics for lomography is over-saturated colors, extreme exposure and blurring. I like the way it transforms a plain picture into something funky and eye-catching. Not very surprising, I have been using one of the free actions I found on the internet to process some of my own photographs. I find the effect works best with not to bright pictures with a lot of different colors, and preferably without people. The effect is often to extreme to make the people in them look good, but there are exceptions, and anyway that is my personal opinion:) Here are some of my favorite lomo processed pictures, first some before and after examples. Please note that these pictures are processed with a just-one-click-action. You can achieve quite different effects with other lomo actions or if you do it step-by-step.





Before


after