Day 58

More Holga

Can you tell what this is?

ETA: It's a really cool bar/restaurant. My friend had a birthday party there. The round things are chinese lantern-type light shades and the yellow is lighting behind the bottles at the bar. This was taken during the day using the Bulb and Cloudy settings on the Holga. The standard Holga has one s.s. settings 1/100 and the modified ones also have Bulb (hold the shutter open for as long as needed - pretty much guess work unless you carry a light meter). It also has only two aperture settings f/8 (cloudy) and f/11 (sunny).

Day 57

Holga rose.

Crazy grain, weird perspective, strange in-camera crop, light leaks, dust, scratches, fuzzy focus, weird colour, odd vignetting.... perfect... LOL

Day 56

It's Holga time again!!!

This is such a wonderful change from digital. It's so unpredictable and uncontrollable. Love it!

Day 47

Holga of the day: Sydney Harbour Bridge. I've become quite the tourist with my Holga. It's forcing me to take wider angles because it doesn't do closeups. Although having said that check this out - it's hilarious! http://www.toycamera.com/tech/macro.cfm

Photo of the day: Fast Food....

Day 46

Photo of the day: Another Creepy Crawlie. I used Shelly Keefe's Dramatic B&W action on this (thanks Shelly). The sky was totally blown and looked quite blahhhh in the colour version. I quite like what the action has done.

Holga of the day: This is the swimming pool, by the harbour, that I swim at most mornings. Still lots of light leaks. In the words of the guy who did the scanning "your Holga leaks like a dog". Personally never seen a leaking dog, but I get what he means. He actually said "throw it away". But NO WAY. I love it!!!

Day 45 - Happy Valentine's Day

Hi all. Hope your loved ones are good to you today. I treated myself yesterday (my V'Day present to myself) to a professional scan of my Holga 35mm negatives. So for the next few days I'm going to post a HOTD (Holga of the day). They will obviously not be taken on that day but the timeframe from shooting, developing, scanning and p.p. means they were probably taken 1-2 weeks ago.

Here's the first: Sydney Harbour from the ferry (not a bad way to travel!!!)

Day 25

This was the best of the film from the Holga yesterday - check out the grain in the sky!!

I'm still struggling with major light leaks and most of the film is no good. I'm Googling lots and found some forums and websites with some hints that I'll try.

Anyway it's lots of fun and I'm getting at least a few that are OK from each film, so I'll just keep experimenting...

Day 15

And now for something totally different. I'm using this daily challenge to push myself to try new and different things. So...I bought a Holga camera about 3 months ago but I hadn't even taken it out of the box til today.

Ahhhh, horrible light leaks. I taped it up as instructed "tape is your friend" but obviously not enough.

Anyway, I'm going to show you just one of them. One version in color and one converted in PS to B&W.

Kinda funky I guess....

p.s. If anyone doesn't know about the Holga, here is some info:

http://www.holgamods.com/what/what.html