Expired Meter

Written August 27, 2007 in Abstract, California, Canon 20D, Photos, San Francisco, Sigma 10-20, Signs, United States, Urban, Vehicles, lomo

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An expired meter I spotted while we waited for a table to become free in a restaurant in San Francisco a few blocks from Union Square.

Photo has been "cross processed" using the Curves tool. I created an S curve on the red and green channels, and then applied a lomo plugin for good effect!

User tags: "expired meter email", "when meter mail expires", "lomograph wiki", "expired meter", "the expired meter"

7 comments on ' Expired Meter '

I’ve been trying to get that cross processed look for ages - without knowing what it was called! Thanks for the tip.

Written by Flickr: _Harry Lime_ on August 27, 2007 at 4:40am
Looks great, love the strong blues and oranges. I thought from the thumbnail that It was a real lomograph, but the clarity of the 10-20mm sigma lens gives it away got a nice action that automates the process pretty well in photoshop (for most cases at least) from this website
http://www.addictedtodesign.com/free_photoshop_actions.html

Written by Flickr: cype_applejuice on August 27, 2007 at 9:58am
I love the Lomo effect

Where did found it ?

Written by Orni on August 27, 2007 at 4:28pm
I love the effect on this photo. Question, what is a “lomo plugin”?

Written by Will on August 27, 2007 at 4:53pm
I blogged about the gimp lomo plugin years ago but it looks like the domain hosting the script has been grabbed by a domainer unfortunately. Looks like there are 2 lomo plugins on the GIMP registry but I haven’t tried them. The GIMP plugin I used simply creates a darkened border around the image.

Oh, lomo, look here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomography

Written by Donncha O Caoimh on August 27, 2007 at 5:08pm
Alex blogged a photo today that was taken very close by. See the pole in the background with the sign saying “Geary”? That’s the pole the “Inside Job” leaflet was stuck to in my photo above!

Written by Donncha O Caoimh on August 28, 2007 at 8:12am
Heh - I was just about to ask if that was the same restaurant.

Written by Alex on August 29, 2007 at 2:01am