So, you have been around Flickr for a while, uploading some great shots, but no-one is viewing/commenting/appreciating your work…what gives? Unfortunately, with over 2 billion photos on Flickr, if you want some exposure you need to court it. Like most things in life: Flickr is one giant circle-jerk.
Welcome to holgablog, a blog about the world of film photography (with a handful of digital thrown in every so often too!).
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 [...]
