Holga ghostliness...
... or should that be Holga ghastliness?
shizunde wanted to know how my first Holga portrait shoot had gone. Well, shizunde, here's a taste of the torrent of Holga pics I'm going to unleash on you in the next few weeks...
... most of which will be quite different from this.
This is a seriously flawed photo which didn't turn out at all the way I had planned it. I can see about a dozen things which are wrong with it (mainly centring around the fact that the photo was badly overexposed and the consequent darkening-up in Photoshop resulted in considerable artefacts), and yet I quite like it. In fact, I like most of the pictures I've taken with my Holga so far. Some of them have turned out to be utter disasters (my first roll of 120 film featured sixteen partly overlapping 6x4 photos rather than the twelve 6x6 photos I'd been hoping for, and the second one proved adequately why the instruction manual says Holgas aren't to be used for close-up photography -- they really aren't up to it!), but even so I can tell I'm on my way to joining the vast army of Holga aficionados here on LJ. I love my new toy!
Holga 120 CFN + Ilford HP5
Delft, Holland, 2006