Lo Fi

There is a current photographic fad for lo fi pictures. These are digital images processed to look like bad examples of film images.

Once upon a time all our pictures were lo fi. All we had was a box brownie or a Halina Paulette and the results were poor by today's standards. Enter the 21st Century and you find folks searching out Lomo cameras specifically for their bad results. 

Open that box full of nineteen eighties colour prints and I'm sure you will find something like this*. The dynamic range has gone and the picture has started the slow drift towards magenta.


Still, you can always scan the negatives and get the picture of Auntie Doris back in its original glory. You did keep the negatives didn't you?

*This is a digital shot from last year that I lo-fi converted with my own special brew of curves.

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