Articles Tagged ‘Holga’

The Best Holga Photos from Flickr January 2010

Our monthly round up of Holga photos we have noticed while scouring Flickr in January.

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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 »

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Another new Holga: The Holga Half Frame (Holga 135TIM)

Another new holga, this time a half frame/stereo/smileyface bizarro camera!

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The Best Holga photos from Flickr October 2009

October was a great month for Holga photos, with the last of the Summer sun fading away to great natural light, the great autumn colours and of course…Halloween! Our judging process has changed slightly, we know have the writers pick their three favourite shots from the month, and then compile them. Depending on how busy the »

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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 »

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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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Holga Self Portrait Challenge Results

This post is in follow up to my previous article “10 Tips for Better Holga Self Portraits” that I wrote just over a month ago. I was hoping to challenge the readers and toy camera shooters out there to try something different, go out of comfort zones and boxes and express themselves. Self portraits are not about »

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Featured Photographer of the Month: C G Moyer

We figured we would finish the week off and set you up for the weekend with some lovely photos…. This month we introduce C Gary Moyer, toy camera photographer extraordinaire, pizza eater, and Light Leaks column writer. Name: C Gary Moyer Location: Maywood, NJ Hometown: Pottstown, PA Current Gear: over 100 cameras- toy and vintage making up the majority. Favortite Film: »

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10 Tips for Better Holga Self Portraits

In honour of my Halo self portrait being selected as one of Holga Blog’s best Holga photos from Flickr July 2009, I decided that my first post here would be about taking self portraits with a Holga. I do a lot of these, and it seems to be an area that a lot of »

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