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Salt Lake City through a Holga Film CameraThursday, January 21st, 2010

Imperfection, thy name is Holga!

I received a roll of film back from the lab (they forgot to make prints) and they had the developed film scanned to disk. I’ll pick up the prints tomorrow. And I am really enjoying the photographs that are created with my imperfect film camera. Yes, right now it is a toy – but it is camp, it is old fashioned, and it has it’s own character.

You can even seen that the camera has developed some light leaks – there is some red light that is getting through on the top left and there is some white light on the top right. I might have to seal the camera up with tape to minimize the light leaks – but I also like them. If I wanted perfection I would be shooting digital.

Salt Lake County Building

I think I need to have a spin with my medium format camera next – I haven’t shot with the Bronica for a few weeks and I don’t want to get rusty. Maybe after the Sundance film festival – cause I won’t have much time photographing while Sundance is in full swing.

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Showing off my first Holga photographMonday, January 4th, 2010

For the longest time I have been curious about photographing with film and more specifically I have been curious with photographing with a Holga camera. The Holga is an imperfect camera which takes imperfect photographs. But that i the charm of the camera.

Well, I bought one and then for Christmas I received one as a gift – so I now have 2! And here is the first photograph from the camera. It really is everything I was hoping for.

Winter snow with a holga

You can see a bit of a vignette around the photograph. The edges are also a bit smudgy and blurred. I did learn that it doesn’t work very well indoors. I had tried using a flash attached to the camera’s hotshoe and the photos were still dark. But for shooting outdoors it is great.

And since I have 2 Holga cameras I use one for black and white and one for color. I haven’t shot a whole roll of color film on a Holga yet but I think this week will be perfect to do so. And I want to try this on some people.

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I am going crazy! I bought yet another camera! A Holga!Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Someone asked me today – how many cameras do I own. I lost track after about 9 cameras. I was counting DSLRs, Video Cameras, Point and shoots, my new Bronica Medium Format camera and I just ordered yet another film camera – a Holga. Here is what the camera will look like – it is a plastic camera – with a plastic lens. It screams cheap! And it takes imperfect photos which makes this camera perfect for those who want to take a leap of faith one their photography.

I am going to have A LOT of fun during Christmas – and my family is going to hate me! And I promise – once I master film it will be available as an option – or a surprise for my wedding photography. It’ll take some practice – but I think the retro charm of film will knock people’s socks off.

A Holga 120N Medium Format (and plastic) camera

And you can be sure I will be posting some of my experiments – including my failures. We learn from our failures and mistakes. That is what makes us human. People have been saying it takes about 10,000 hours to master something – I hope it doesn’t take that long for film photography. One famous dead photographer said the first 10,000 photographs are your worst. And that is back in the day of film – when a roll of film had 6, 12 or maybe 24 exposures.

I have all these lofty goals – but to become a film wedding photographer would be rather cool – would definitely make me different. But time will tell – and film is making a bit of a comeback.

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