Hey Everyone!
OK, so lets stick with the love and not the hate in that I’m not posting one of my shoots again – all in good time :-p One of my friends, Matt, was selling his old Holga camera for basically free so I decided to scoop it up and have some fun with it. Check out the Holga link (here) to read more about it but basically it is an old medium format “toy” camera that is know for its horrible quality, in so much that its almost garnered a cult status. So I took a dive back into the film world and decided to have some fun.
These shots were from the birthday shaker for two of my friends – good times all around (out of the 20ish people there, I think these 5 are the only ones who wouldn’t kill me for putting there pictures on a “professional” blog … blah!)! It was all inside and stupid dark. In the camera was 100 ISO slide film, which I push processed 2 stops, and then had it cross processed in C41 chemicals. Thus the cool looks! The shots were taken with about 1 second exposures with a handheld flash :-O, and the exposures were really just best guesses. Slide film has limited latitude as it is, and then the triple processing punch I gave it, basically how the film developed is how the pictures are – no “fill light” and not “highlight recovery” options here (and some of those highlights are super blown! Oh well). And its all manual “guess focus” – it has a picture of a person and a picture of a mountain on a dial, and focuses at those two points and everything in between ???
So yes, these are all straight scans with no correction, no photoshop! And the last two really are no photoshop! They weren’t even on purpose, haha. They were accidental double exposures that just happened to work (you have to manually wind the film after each shot and I just started forgetting, haha). So without further blabber, here are a few fun shots from the night!
Me and Andrew - super cool guy
My good man Jer - an awesome photographer too, watch out for his stuff (check out the link to his Flickr though the comments)!
Yes, Fran is just a floating head, and Matt is giving himself a weird look. All in camera
Pretty awesome night! Keep an eye out for a few more in the future. Its kind of fun to lose all control like that and just enjoy the outcome! Promise, more weddings next, and then some of the kazillion portraits I need to get up :p
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Justin
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