5 photos from my trip to Long Island last year that comprise my “Visions of Long Island” series.  These were all taken with my Canon 350D (aka Rebel XT) which was my primary setup before I upgraded to the 30D.

I’m currently on a kick playing with heavier saturation and contrast in Photoshop and I think I’ve found something that works with these photos.  I tried to tie all the images together with the same hue of blue in the sky, except the last one where that color range didn’t work. Instead, I muted the sky down to draw out the smoke stacks in the background.

Hope you enjoy these, and as always, if you want to buy any of my prints you can do so over at my dedicated portfolio site: http://www.twenty01photo.com.

The Lomo LC-A was a camera born out of St. Petersburg, Russia that has a lens that distorted the edges while keeping the center of the frame sharp. The lenses also have a very high sensitivity to light often causing over saturation and defects in exposure. The camera has a freakish cult following.. just search for “Lomo” on the web or Flickr and you’ll see what I mean.

After seeing some photos recently taken by a Lomo LC-A camera, it reminded me again how much I love their high contrasty look. Since I don’t use film at all anymore in favour of my digital SLR, I wanted to try to re-create the look using photoshop. After several unsuccessful attempts, I found a great tutorial over at digital-photography-school.com. Using that technique plus some tweaks of my own, I’m getting some great results. Here’s one attempt at Lomofying an image I took while up in Vancouver, over the Yaletown neighbourhood where my parents live.