Photography

Holga at the Movies (Almost)

Amongst all the hubbub of the winners and losers on the big-screen this week, I decided to trawl the depths of on-line video caches to see how Holgas were making the jump into the murky world of film.

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The Indonesian Poverty: Through Holga Lens

Holgablog presents another entry from our previous competition. Sandy Wijaya takes us through the often harrowing poverty of Indonesia.

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Points of View: An Exhibition of 19th Century Photography

Considering negatives were A4-size, exposure times were at least 30 seconds (in bright sunshine) and film had to be concocted and processed in small tents that the photographer carried with them, there are some gems of images…

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Kids of Burkino Faso by Stéphane Heinz

In our continuing effort to post up all entries from our holgablog summer compeitition (seems so long ago now!), here’s another cracker by Stéphane, who travelled to Burkino Faso and discovered an amazing country…

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World Toy Camera Day 17/10/2009

This Saturday, October 17, 2009 is World Toy Camera Day!

So load up all of your toys and get your trigger finger warmed up! Join toy camera shooters around the world in this day of photo-goodness. Join the World Toy Camera Day Group on Flickr I am also looking for any self portraits done on this day »

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To Mount Rushmore and back… with a Commie Camera

i took the bar exam this summer (to get my attorney license) and afterwards, thought i deserved a vacation.  i’d always wanted to go to mount rushmore and i had the urge to take my first solo road trip.  i took off one thursday afternoon with my dog, some kodak gold 200 and my blue »

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20 Amazing Diptychs

To celebrate release of the Diana Mini and it’s half-framey-ness we thought we’d delve into the Flickr vaults to bring you 20 of the best half-frame diptychs. In this digital age it’s easy to place two photos alongside each other, but with a half frame, or indeed any film camera, more thought must »

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Thai New Year by Chad Cullin

Once weekly we will be presenting you with another superb entry from our recent competition. The basic premise was that you had to submit at least six photos, along with a piece of writing, whether fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. The writing could be anything you want, but had to relate to the photos in some »

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How To: Coffee Developer And You!

Not your mother’s brew. It didn’t take me long to decide to convert you all to developing with coffee! I know what you may be thinking – ok that’s a lie – but suppose I can imagine it’s something along the lines of, “Huh?” …And finally, the highlight of it all: the end result with your negatives stained a lovely sepia tone.

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Flickr Friday

This is a new series that we are starting, and hope that it will continue weekly.
Each week, we will search the Holga Flickr group for photos added during that week and will post a few of our favorites, based on a theme.
Our first theme for the week of February 10 – 17, 2010 is The [...]

Holga Wide and Tele Lens test shots

Here are a few test shots I took in my back yard a couple of weeks ago using the new Holga Wide and Tele lenses.  For comparison, I stood in the same spot and took them all from the same angle (as best I could!).
I will keep trying out the lenses in some more different [...]

Review: Holga 120 WPC

I was originally going to start this review of the 120 WPC off quite technically – what the WPC stood for, what features it had, what the f-stop was. That kind of thing. Then I realised I’d been sucked into what I actually try to avoid in photography: geekspeak. So while some of the specifics [...]