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When you take a picture using a camera produced by the Austrian company Lomographische AG, it’s called "lomography." The term originated because of cameras that were made by a Russian Optics company called LOMO PLC. Their cameras had an unusual lens which produced lots of distortion at the edges of the image while keeping the center sharp… Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Accidents such as over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are rehabilitated to produce swirly, abstract effects. The lens effect can be partially emulated in photo-editing programs, such as Gimp or Photoshop. The Lomography motto of "don’t think, just shoot" presumes spontaneity, close-ups and ubiquity, while deemphasizing formal technique. Typical Lomography cameras are deliberately low-fidelity. The following are the company’s 10 Rules of Lomography:

1. Take your LOMO everywhere you go & whenever you go.
2. Use it anytime — day or night.
3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
4. Shoot from the hip.
5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
6. Don’t think.
7. Be fast.
8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you’ve captured on film.
9. You don’t have to know afterwards, either.
10. Don’t worry about the rules.

Lomo photographs are usually high contrast, with unusual saturation and color. Real lomo photographs use the technique of "cross processing" in which film intended for developing in slide chemistry (E-6) is processed in photographic negative chemistry (C-41), and vice-versa.

– from Lomography on Wikipedia