Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/11

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Subject: [Leica] It's just another tool ... (Hipstamatic)
From: michiel.fokkema at gmail.com (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:12:56 +0100
References: <AANLkTi=x7ReD0X3n_bZECj8KyXCh_c2Y70Q7vaBCmmCF@mail.gmail.com>

Well, it is like Holga, Lomo, polaroid, pinhole. Use it and you seem to 
have instant art.


Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema

On 12-2-2011 1:11, Phil Swango wrote:
> Jeff Moore wrote:
>> I admit I get cranky when I see people who stuff every damned picture
>> through Hipstamatic, applying the same heavy-handed gimmicky effect to
>> every phone picture they take, regardless of appropriateness to the
>> particular image. But this guy's done some fine work, some of which
>> happens to involve said app.
>>
>> http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/through-my-eye-not-hipstamatics/
>
> <http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/through-my-eye-not-hipstamatics/>Jeff
> -- I saw that essay when it first came out and liked it too, but I know 
> what
> you mean about that app.  I started using it to make photos for a daily
> fashion blog that a friend writes and really liked it until it sort of got
> old.  Trouble is, by the time I got tired of it, it had become the de facto
> 'look' for the blog and my blogger friend keeps requesting it.
>

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