"Diana Camera" Plugin For Photoshop?

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Alan Smithee
Aug 5, 2005
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Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx.

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Mike Russell
Aug 5, 2005
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx.

Gaussian blur.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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Roberto
Aug 5, 2005
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx.
Alan’s trolling again.
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Alan Smithee
Aug 7, 2005
Mike Russell wrote:
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx.

Gaussian blur.

I found the next best thing a series of actions to create the "Lomo" effect. I’m not sure a Lomo is much better or worse than a Diana. Seems to work however.

http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~tbujor/blog/archives/000010lo mo_effect_in_photoshop.php
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Alan Smithee
Aug 7, 2005
johnboy wrote:
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx. Alan’s trolling again.

One for you too friend. Cheer up.

http://www.flamingpear.com/melancholytron.html
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Roberto
Aug 7, 2005
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
johnboy wrote:
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx. Alan’s trolling again.
One for you too friend. Cheer up.

http://www.flamingpear.com/melancholytron.html

Those effects are the inevitable "sit on one’s butt" attempts to do what certain lenses nonetheless do better. I guess you’d have to be there and make the real thing to know.
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KatWoman
Aug 7, 2005
"johnboy" wrote in message
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
johnboy wrote:
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx. Alan’s trolling again.
One for you too friend. Cheer up.

http://www.flamingpear.com/melancholytron.html

Those effects are the inevitable "sit on one’s butt" attempts to do what certain lenses nonetheless do better. I guess you’d have to be there and make the real thing to know.
hey lighten up dude
I am not one to denigrate the value of well crafted photography, I respect it hugely.
BUT many of us work on other people’s photos and are required in many cases to "save" them or manipulate inferior images in effort to make the final result look better.
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Roberto
Aug 7, 2005
"KatWoman" wrote in message
"johnboy" wrote in message

Those effects are the inevitable "sit on one’s butt" attempts to do what certain lenses nonetheless do better. I guess you’d have to be there and make the real thing to know.
hey lighten up dude
I am not one to denigrate the value of well crafted photography, I respect it hugely.
BUT many of us work on other people’s photos and are required in many cases to "save" them or manipulate inferior images in effort to make the final result look better.

The OP clearly didn’t even know what a Diana (or Holga) look even was or he’d know how to create a bad mimic of it in a heartbeat. Do what you do. No problem. The more y’all fail because you don’t understand photography, the happier The Rest of Us are.
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Alan Smithee
Aug 8, 2005
"johnboy" wrote in message
"KatWoman" wrote in message
"johnboy" wrote in message

Those effects are the inevitable "sit on one’s butt" attempts to do
what
certain lenses nonetheless do better. I guess you’d have to be there
and
make the real thing to know.
hey lighten up dude
I am not one to denigrate the value of well crafted photography, I
respect
it hugely.
BUT many of us work on other people’s photos and are required in many cases to "save" them or manipulate inferior images in effort to make the final result look better.

The OP clearly didn’t even know what a Diana (or Holga) look even was or he’d know how to create a bad mimic of it in a heartbeat. Do what you do.
No
problem. The more y’all fail because you don’t understand photography, the happier The Rest of Us are.
Just so we’re clear. I own (and regularly shoot on) a Diana, a Stellar and a rare Debonaire (the best [or is that the worst] of the three). You know what they say about people who assume. And again I’ll reiterate — get happy — life’s too short to go stomping around in heavy boots all day long.
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Roberto
Aug 8, 2005
"Alan Smithee" wrote:
Just so we’re clear. I own (and regularly shoot on) a Diana, a Stellar and a
rare Debonaire (the best [or is that the worst] of the three).

oops. Sorry, Alan.

Well, I used a Holga once in college, but I swear I didn’t develop. Okay, okay, I did but I didn’t have sex with that woman. Okay, I did, but…

Actually, the Holga I used was a profound disappointment: the subject was in clear focus at 4 feet and there were no light leaks. If Holga doesn’t lose their quality-control they are doomed. Here’s the picture: http://elearning.winona.edu/jjs/pico_n_molly.jpg
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ggull
Aug 8, 2005
"Alan Smithee" wrote ..
Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx.

Fun thread, guys. I found a site
http://www.renewal.org.au/cgregory/writing/diana.shtml
that explained (sort of) the Diana Camera phenomenon (and I’ve been a semi-serious photographer since about the time they came out, but never heard of them).

But wtf is Lomo? googling didn’t produce any kind of definition, just sample photos and photoshop tips.
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RSD99
Aug 9, 2005
"ggull" wrote in message
"Alan Smithee" wrote ..
Does anyone know of a "Diana Camera" or Lomo plugin for Photoshop? Thx.

Fun thread, guys. I found a site
http://www.renewal.org.au/cgregory/writing/diana.shtml
that explained (sort of) the Diana Camera phenomenon (and I’ve been a semi-serious photographer since about the time they came out, but never heard of them).

But wtf is Lomo? googling didn’t produce any kind of definition, just sample photos and photoshop tips.

Diana … Holga … Lomo … all roughly synonymous … all the same kind of "stuff." They were sooooo BAD that some people actually thought they were "GooD."
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ggull
Aug 9, 2005
"RSD99" wrote in
"ggull" wrote
….
But wtf is Lomo? googling didn’t produce any kind of definition, just sample photos and photoshop tips.

Diana … Holga … Lomo … all roughly synonymous … all the same kind of "stuff." They were sooooo BAD that some people actually thought they were "GooD."

OK, I did get the idea, though some of the example shots did indeed seem … special ….

Reminds me of a performance art piece I went to, when after the main event they showed a special film that was so awful it had me in stitches, fortunately suppressed. It had every bozo mistake my grandmother would make with her 8 mm camera .. camera wandering off to skyline, gross over or under exposure, camera wandering down to picture of photographer’s toe, flares, out of focus blurs. I thought it was a satire. Turns out they were deadly serious and I was the only one who didn’t think it was Art.

I’ll keep my eye peeled for plastic cameras at flea markets :-).
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Alan Smithee
Aug 9, 2005
ggull wrote:
"RSD99" wrote in
"ggull" wrote

But wtf is Lomo? googling didn’t produce any kind of definition, just sample photos and photoshop tips.

Diana … Holga … Lomo … all roughly synonymous … all the same kind of "stuff." They were sooooo BAD that some people actually thought they were "GooD."

OK, I did get the idea, though some of the example shots did indeed seem … special ….

Reminds me of a performance art piece I went to, when after the main event they showed a special film that was so awful it had me in stitches, fortunately suppressed. It had every bozo mistake my grandmother would make with her 8 mm camera .. camera wandering off to skyline, gross over or under exposure, camera wandering down to picture of photographer’s toe, flares, out of focus blurs. I thought it was a satire. Turns out they were deadly serious and I was the only one who didn’t think it was Art.

I’ll keep my eye peeled for plastic cameras at flea markets :-).

If Diana was the cult, Lomo was the church. Check it out: http://www.lomography.com/
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KatWoman
Aug 9, 2005
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
ggull wrote:
"RSD99" wrote in
"ggull" wrote

But wtf is Lomo? googling didn’t produce any kind of definition, just sample photos and photoshop tips.

Diana … Holga … Lomo … all roughly synonymous … all the same kind of "stuff." They were sooooo BAD that some people actually thought they were "GooD."

OK, I did get the idea, though some of the example shots did indeed seem … special ….

Reminds me of a performance art piece I went to, when after the main event they showed a special film that was so awful it had me in stitches, fortunately suppressed. It had every bozo mistake my grandmother would make with her 8 mm camera .. camera wandering off to skyline, gross over or under exposure, camera wandering down to picture of photographer’s toe, flares, out of focus blurs. I thought it was a satire. Turns out they were deadly serious and I was the only one who didn’t think it was Art.

I’ll keep my eye peeled for plastic cameras at flea markets :-).

If Diana was the cult, Lomo was the church. Check it out: http://www.lomography.com/
Ok so we are trying to reproduce lens blur and distortion from cheap cameras?
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Mike Russell
Aug 9, 2005
I think the idea of Diana contests is to test what a photographer can do on a level playing field with simple equipment that is identical to everyone else’s.

The idea of a plugin in mess up an image, say, from a DSLR is like dressing up your starboat to look like a toro, and then expecting people to believe you’ve won the race by a mile. Very funny, as long as you don’t actually succeed in deceiving anyone.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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ggull
Aug 10, 2005
"Alan Smithee" wrote …
ggull wrote:
I’ll keep my eye peeled for plastic cameras at flea markets :-).

If Diana was the cult, Lomo was the church. Check it out: http://www.lomography.com/

Oh my gawd 8-()

I’ll pass for now, thanks. No time for a new obsession :-).
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ggull
Aug 10, 2005
"Mike Russell" wrote in
I think the idea of Diana contests is to test what a photographer can do on a level playing field with simple equipment that is identical to everyone else’s.

But I though I gleaned from at least one website that part of the appeal of Dianas / etc’s/ was that they were manufactured with such loose controls that each one was different. Searching for the one with the combination of blur and flare that appealed to your inner artist was one of the obsessive drawing points.
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Mike Russell
Aug 10, 2005
"ggull" wrote in message
"Mike Russell" wrote in
I think the idea of Diana contests is to test what a photographer can do on a level playing field with simple equipment that is identical to everyone else’s.

But I though I gleaned from at least one website that part of the appeal of Dianas / etc’s/ was that they were manufactured with such loose controls that each one was different. Searching for the one with the combination of blur and flare that appealed to your inner artist was one of the obsessive drawing points.

LOL – ":blur and flare": I love it. It’s like picking a spouse, then. 🙂 —
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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Lorem Ipsum
Aug 10, 2005
"Mike Russell" wrote in message
"ggull" wrote
But I though I gleaned from at least one website that part of the appeal of Dianas / etc’s/ was that they were manufactured with such loose controls that each one was different. Searching for the one with the combination of blur and flare that appealed to your inner artist was one of the obsessive drawing points.

LOL – ":blur and flare": I love it. It’s like picking a spouse, then. 🙂

Well, maybe not a spouse, but after lots of drinks after closing… problem is you go in under the Haze of Holga and wake up with the eyes of a Coyote.
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RSD99
Aug 11, 2005
"ggull" wrote in message
"Alan Smithee" wrote …
ggull wrote:
I’ll keep my eye peeled for plastic cameras at flea markets :-).

If Diana was the cult, Lomo was the church. Check it out: http://www.lomography.com/

Oh my gawd 8-()

I’ll pass for now, thanks. No time for a new obsession :-).

No time? Well then you’d probably best look around for something called a "LensBaby."

http://www.lensbabies.com/
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ggull
Aug 11, 2005
"Mike Russell" wrote > "ggull"
wrote…
…. Searching for the one with the
combination of blur and flare that appealed to your inner artist was one of the obsessive drawing points.

LOL – ":blur and flare": I love it. It’s like picking a spouse, then. 🙂

Put that way, "blur and flare" sounds like a concept for an edgy PBS photography show :-).
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Alan Smithee
Aug 13, 2005
KatWoman wrote:
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
ggull wrote:
"RSD99" wrote in
"ggull" wrote

But wtf is Lomo? googling didn’t produce any kind of definition, just sample photos and photoshop tips.

Diana … Holga … Lomo … all roughly synonymous … all the same kind of "stuff." They were sooooo BAD that some people actually thought they were "GooD."

OK, I did get the idea, though some of the example shots did indeed seem … special ….

Reminds me of a performance art piece I went to, when after the main event they showed a special film that was so awful it had me in stitches, fortunately suppressed. It had every bozo mistake my grandmother would make with her 8 mm camera .. camera wandering off to skyline, gross over or under exposure, camera wandering down to picture of photographer’s toe, flares, out of focus blurs. I thought it was a satire. Turns out they were deadly serious and I was the only one who didn’t think it was Art.

I’ll keep my eye peeled for plastic cameras at flea markets :-).

If Diana was the cult, Lomo was the church. Check it out: http://www.lomography.com/
Ok so we are trying to reproduce lens blur and distortion from cheap cameras?

No. We’re trying to create emotion and mood in photographs. It’s poetry. It is what it is. Truth and nonsense rolled into one.
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Roberto
Aug 13, 2005
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message

Ok so we are trying to reproduce lens blur and distortion from cheap cameras?

No. We’re trying to create emotion and mood in photographs. It’s poetry. It
is what it is. Truth and nonsense rolled into one.

Like speaking poetry with a mouth full of marbles.

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