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When you have no idea what you're doing, Holga cameras can create happy accidents.
Some of you might remember my visit to Ortlieb's Brewery as shot digitally. These shots are the reason I went...a lesson in using Holga cameras, provided by mrfigurine. Lesson 1: Unless you want your images to all awesomely bleed into one another (but be impossible to trim for negative sleeving), make sure your camera is set on 12 exposures, not 16. [Click all these B&Ws for larger versions.]
It actually worked more often than not.
This being an example of "not."
And these being many examples of "not." Lesson 2: Trying to focus on a close subject (such as a severed doll's head) using a toy camera is either an exact science that requires much practice and film burning, or it's an exercise in futility.
Lesson 3: Color 120 slide film is persnickety. In this picture, which is successful enough in its pretty blues and building silhouettes...
...I was actually focusing on these busted glasses I found on the site. Metering with Holgas is nonexistant. Though at least I got the close subject in focus this time.
Technically sloppy as all hell, but I kind of like this crazy shot of the roof tree. It's kinda pretty and comforting.
Compare this to the digital version of the same subject. Like I said in the previous post, getting that kind of clarity with the Holga is insanely difficult.
