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Image by Pedro Moura Pinheiro
Canon PowerShot G9
1/1250 of a second – f/2.8 – ISO 80

I tried to imitate the Lomo image quality, but also the concept in terms of subject, as it’s used a lot by the low-budget, young, urban, “in” crowd. This is a flower growing on the wall of the Loretto Church in Chiado in Lisbon, pointed to me by a co-worker who passes by it everyday. In terms of the image treatment, I did the following:

* Whole image
o Adjusted the levels to clip the highlights slightly
o Lowered the saturation
o Shifted the color cast a little into the yellow
o Blurred it very slightly
* On the edges only (new layer with a mask)
o Darkened it to simulate the Lomo lens’ vignetting
o Blurred it more with Gaussian blur
o Distorted it with the Glass effect to simulate the Lomo lens’ edge astigmatism

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