A Wedding in Lomo
pictures, weddings, whatnot July 27th, 2007Twenty-two days and fourteen rolls after, I’m still high on Lomo.
As with all passions, I came into it head-on, devouring everything I could read about it, joining it’s premiere local community - lomomanila, savoring the pictures graciously shared online and learning as much as possible from the pioneers (thanks Jill).
The attraction for Lomo stemmed perhaps from how lomographs looked - super saturated, vignetted, off-kilter colors and blurs. The exact characteristics of the videos that we make. The coincidence was uncanny yet not surprising.
But reading more about lomography, you learn that it’s not all “style”. It’s not even strictly the cameras.
You realize it’s more of a lifestyle, an attitude. To shoot without boundaries, without being constrained with the traditional rules of photography (though no question, lomography IS photography), to be spontaneous in shooting, to not think at all.
BS? Maybe. Fun. No doubt.
Here’s a wedding entirely shot with a Lomo Kompakt Automat+. Chris and Cho.
The point being there is no point. Why? Because I wanted to and I could.
Further reading:
lomomanila (the shiznit Pinoy Lomo Forum)
lomography (official site)
a dissident’s point of view
hi jason! im one of your avid followers of this blogspot! luv the lomographs! i read from shierdan’s blog that you were a guest photographer on one of the weddings that he covered.. just wondering how much do u charge for this?? i hope u can emailme ur photography rates! hihi! - jhaxe_13@yahoo.com.. salamat! cheers!
nice write up about lomo! galing! and the photos are really great! ganda! xpro really does wonders! kaka addict! haha!
uhhmmm kainggit ha! good thing i know jill lejano!!!! hehehe
nice shots!
a new trend will unveil..because you always have new ideas (either in video and photography) to share.Where can i buy such camera?? excited na ko…dami ko pang FILM
na pwedeng ubusin…….. :>
Hey Jason! Where is the email you are going to send me na re lomo? Been wanting to get na the camera. I’ve contacted na Rowena. Thanks! By the way, nice shots!
Hi Jason!
(I saw your new print ads too, galing you’re really raising the bar for everyone else).
I love the lomographs, they’re beautiful.
Cheers,
Cynthia
Jhen. Thanks so much for the comments. Unfortunately, we don’t charge for the service because we don’t offer it :). It’s just basically a fun thing I’d like to do when not filming weddings
Arwin,
thanks, i love cross processing, so unpredictable!
Ghie
Thanks for keeping up with the blog. Check out the resellers at the bottom of the blog post. The LCA is the uber camera to get.
Cynths,
can’t help but wring ourselves with good ads to match the calibre of your magazine. thanks!
Mr Jason,
Awesome pictures… You are very good in videography as well as photography. Thank you so much!
chris & cho
It was my utmost pleasure to shoot your wedding. It was great working with the superb and professional team who handled your wedding.
Cheers!