One of the results appears below - a horrible out of focus mess - and they were all similarly out of focus... disaster! The camera had to be sent back... it turned out it was missing its optics so I was effectively getting a pinhole camera effect... kind of cool but not what I really wanted.
While I was waiting for a replacement to arrive I began wondering if there was a way of creating a similar effect with the digital SLR and Photoshop... It didn't need to be too sophisticated because Lomographic style is supposed to be imperfect and I decided to try making a card lens cover with a panoramic slit cut out of it...
The first attempt at a photo starred a jolly pink toy robot... It was done as a wide shot in response to a rather baffling challenge on The Daily Shoot. The date, by the way, was Friday the 13th of August, 2010...
The effect was what I wanted and it went up on The Daily Shoot and Flickr to good response - one of my Flickr freiends, Nick Harris commented: "I think you have invented a new photographic style here. Well done"... Mel echoed that and said I should put a "how to" account online as a record... this is it...
Anyway, the inspiration behind all this was to create multi-frame "Supersampler-style" images using Photoshop to glue the frames together... drum roll please... here are some of the best examples so far...
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