On Film: Signs, Banners, Displays and Such

Film camera fun...

On Film: Music

I took my film camera out to the Newport Folk Festival and ran a couple of rolls through it.  I need to spend more time learning the ins and outs of the camera.  Nothing a little time and patience won't fix.  

When I use digital, I usually end up fiddling around with my various editing software to add grain, fading, light leaks and any number of things that give me what I want.  Well, the good and in some cases bad about my film photography foray is I got all of that without the aid of software.  It's one thing to take a nice crisp digital image and dirty it up.  It's a completely different thing when you get no choice.  If I didn't know the camera was capable shooting well, I would be concerned that it was a bad apple.  

Alabama Shakes
This is the kind of photo I wanted when I was toying around with my Holga, not so much with my slr.  I love the photo though.

Sharon Van Etten
Again I like the photo but would rather it be the result of my toy camera.

The Holga Chronicles

About a year ago, I bought a Holga.  I ran a roll and well, lets just say it was a failure of epic proportions.  I tossed it in a drawer and forgot about it.  Recently, I decided I wanted to explore film.  In addition to picking up a used slr, I pulled out the Holga and ran a roll of film ... again, failure!  Well, I got some advice, watched some videos and gave it another go and... I've got photos.  

When I first bought the Holga I envisioned questionably exposed, retro looking images. While I like the heavily saturated images, I find that I have a soft spot for the overexposed and faded images.  At any rate, I look forward to using it more and seeing what I come up with.