Lomography - your oppinion!

[Davids]

I read about this years ago, and I'd thought it would be a fashion thing and go away.
To my surprise, they're still alive;
Lomography - motto: "Don't think, just shoot"

The BBC just wrote an article about it;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7007160.stm

Their home page;
http://www.lomography.com/about/
their 10 rules;
1) take your camera everywhere you go;
2) use it any time, day and night;
3) Lomoghraghy is not interference in your life, but part of it;
4) try the shot from the hip
5) aproach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible;
6) don't think;
7) be fast;
8) you don't have to know beforehand what you captured on film;
9) afterwards either
10) don't worry about any rules.
(Neat, exacly 10 rules, denied by it's own excistance.)

Are you a lomographer?
Is it something for us, for TE?
Does someone also participate on lomography.com?
Or is it all just a lot of hot air and smart marketing to sell a new, old looking film camera's?

[paulalex32]

I wouldn't go that far, but I suppose it could be interesting once or twice. I actually do follow some of their rules. My camera is with me always, I use it any time and sometimes I intentionally break rules. I cannot remember the name of the photographer anymore, but he is Japanese and he has a method similar to my own. When you see a shot, try to let your subconscious tell you when the time is right to push the button, don't think it to death. It's a difficult method, but when I have used it succesfuly, I have been very satisfied with the results. Anyway, this is what I initially thought you were talking about. Cheers, Paul.

[OHara]

Great BBC link – thank you for for that David.
There are some examples of Lomography on TrekLens .

This is a Fake-LOMO Adobe Photoshop Script that I sometimes use.

[kinginexile]

As you say, it's another method of shooting, which asks maybe as much discipline as following the rules (or breaking them to good effect). Like all the preparation setting up a John Cage music concert. I bet this website refuses shots that don't look lomo enough, even though the photographer was a true lomo-sapien, when he took them!