You learn from your mistakes

So the forth film through a Holga turns out to be my least successful yet.

 

I don’t know if the fact that the film was expired made a difference but the contrast was really high and most shots were underexposed. Maybe I didn’t pay enough attention to the light on the day I took these

2 secs bulb exposure - camera propped on a bridge hence movement blur

I also managed to once again wind over one exposure, but out of the eleven I did take only four look like intentional photographs to me, and even then not that good.

First attempt at a Holga splitter - fail!

Still, hopefully I will learn from my mistakes. I hope the other two expired Tri-X films I used come out better. I also used my home made Holga Splitter for the first time (on the photo of the trees). But this didn’t work out too good. I’ll have to try it again in better light.

1 sec bulb exposure - camera on a rock

Not strictly Holga

I once emailed Lensbaby to see if they had thought of doing a “Toycamera” or Holga type optic for their Lensbaby composer system. They had not, mainly because they think their plastic optic already has it covered. These shots are taken with the plastic optic and an Olympus E-620. Not very Holga like to me, but a fun lens nevertheless. 

Crazy Daisy - home made shaped aperture disk

Starbucks picture

Chair in local library

River Taff - well I am a "Taffy" afterall!

My back door

Glass tile

Glass wing

Salad for tea - again!

Autumn colour

 

My third film through the Holga GTLR is more colour Kodak 400VC. The next film to get developed is the less saturated Kodak 400NC film, I’ll be interested to compare the results. The saturated colours of the VC film suited the late autumn hues of a tree in a park local to me – one of the few trees with some leaves left.

Memorial to Capt Scott (of the Antarctic) who sailed from Cardiff

Can’t quite believe I made the rookie mistake of including my shadow in a photo (non-intentionally), but of course there’s no live view with a Holga, you just point it at what you want to photograph and shoot. Still, I should have spotted it! The other rookie mistake I made was falling asleep whilst inserting the film and winding past the first exposure – duh!

Who's the muppet casting a shadow in my photo?

I seemed REALLY close to this tree when I took the photo?

Another dual exposure (deliberate, I haven’t done an accidental one YET). I thought I had tried my home made Splitzer, but that must have been on the B&W film in my Holga 120N, yet  to be developed.  Some of these shots also feature the (£8 on EBAY) Holga wide angled lens attachment. You can see the greater vignette and corner distortion on the shots using the wide attachment.

Double exposure

The final two images are of my parents dog, (Caesar)  they wanted some pictures of him, so he got Holgered.

Hail Caesar

Noble, if somewhat dim beast.

Which brings me to the main drawback in Holga photography, the expense of developing and printing/scanning 120 film. The cheapest I can find is £10 for developing and scans, or developing and prints. Still with a “prosumer” DSLR costing £1000, you can afford a fair few films for that price.