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 »
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 »
Contributions by Andrew, Edward, Veronica and Dave. Looking through flickr, there are photo trends, that is to say there are subjects that creep up all the time, especially in the field of toy camera photography. Some say have been done to death, most are clichéd, but that doesn’t matter, they are a requisite if you »
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Holgapalooza 2010 Deadline Approaches!
The deadline for www.holgapalooza.com is just around the corner! Here is a reminder of this year’s Summer Contest Festivus!
Fun in the Sun-Printing
Some time late last year (OK, Christmas), I got a present called “Sun-Print Paper”. This stuff is basically sold as a “toy” to parents who probably want their kids to get off their console, get out the house, and take in some Sunshine or else.
How to make Cog-Pano’s on your Holga
First things first. The image above was shot on my Holga, and I only manipulated digitally by way of turning it black & white and adding my copyright symbol. Otherwise, this is shown exactly as it was shot, with the image stretching its way across the film plain in a nice wide panoramic and covering [...]
