Wednesday, 10 January 2007

My other camera is a Holga

iso 200, f 5.6, ss 1/3 sec
17-85 lens, focal length 70mm, tripod


My husband (Shane) bought me my Holga for my birthday after I read a article about them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holga I think they are so cool. I don't use it as much as I would like though coz the cost of printing the pics is just too high. The last lot I got done cost $4/4x4 photo.
I'm not overly happy with the shot. It was my first play with plexiglass (Shane just happened to have some in his shed). The problem is I'm getting a reflection off both the top and the bottom surface of the plexiglass. Any suggestions on how to avoid this are most welcome. Is the problem with the cloth I had underneath? The lighting was a reading lamp with a sheet of kitchen paper over it. Once again Shane was the lighting director (he held the sheet of kitchen paper).

10 comments:

nomo wino daph said...

What a super cool photo!!
Love it!

Andrea said...

It looks awesome to me! I love the black and white, and I also love the reflection. I think you are being too hard on yourself!

. said...

I've heard so much about these cameras. Great shot!

Anonymous said...

very cool shot...great work with the plexi-glass!
Cari

Dar Kaso said...

Cool, but all your shots are cool. Love the plexiglass and reflection.

~JustJulie~ said...

This is really neat! I love the reflection. I definitely need to get some plexiglass.

Rebecca said...

Great pic, I don't understand the problem you're having, it looks good to me!

Patti said...

Thanks everyone. You have encouraged me to relook at this pic and I guess I'm pretty happy with it. It was really late when I was editing it (I didn't take it until 10:30pm)so i was getting kinda frustrated with it. The double reflectionof the top of the camera (at the bottom of the pic) was driving me crazy. Especially as I have never tried this before I wasn't sure if maybe I was just doing it wrong.

Jenny said...

Cool camera and cool photo. I love the reflection.

Krissynae said...

I agree. amazing shot. Great job