LOFI has been released and it brings for the first time the low-fidelity technique of photography in the iPhone. It’s created by Christopher Comair, the same author of Polarize, another impressive app. With this credential, will it be worth the purchase?
Of course, I’d say. It’s a very good app, it covers a niche of the photography world, and it is FREE.
For those of you who don’t know what Lo-Fi is, Wikipedia says:
Lo-fi photography is a style of photography generally using poor equipment, such as toy cameras or pinhole cameras, for stylistic effect. It is often considered a reaction to the perceived ease of creating technically perfect photos in the digital age
I guess you are thinking “why should I take a photo with my 3000€ reflex and then make it worse?” Well, go and ask it to the thousands of pro photographers that use it. I’m saying it’s a creative way to edit some of your photos and some of them can really look better in lo-fi.
The app is simple, first of all you can choose between taking a photo with the in-app camera or picking an image from the library. Then, you can lo-fi just one photo or frame some of them together. A friend of mine made an amazing collage of some photos:
I’m testing this app and looks nice, it just does its job without any problems or bugs. The only thing about it I don’t like it’s the way it saturates the image(s), too much for my taste. But I can live with that.
Ah, in case you want to show your photos to the internet in a pretty place with other enthusiasts doing the same, there’s a FLickr pool to do that.
If you want to try the app, grab it here.
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