paddyjoe

Just a couple peaceful type pics I shot with my Holga. Neat little $15 toy camera with the plastic lens.











You guys remember film?

Shpoop

first one is awesome, but the second one is meh

White Cluster

frame your pics man

anti fishstick

man, never underestimate cheap camera's .

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amonkie

Like they say, It's ALL in the EYE. Great shots Paddyjoe! I like the angle on the second one.

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Fly

yup.....dig the first one



thanx joe

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Force 10

Me too.

I know I've been slacking but with my newest edition to the family, it's hard to fit anything else in

I'll try to post something soon.

Thanks Pad!

robodog

I love the first one.
Btw the guy that shot the cover of SI Swimsuit edition a couple years ago used a pile of disposable cameras for his shoots. This proves to me that it really IS all in the lighting and composition =)

p.s.
Is the cepia tone a PS effect or a development trick?

paddyjoe

Thanks for the props you guys, I do appreciate it.

Robodog, many times in the darkroom I do tone my prints, but this image was a scanned b&w neg, so I just goofed around with color balance in PS to do the toning.

Cheap cameras definately rock hard, there is even a disposable b&w camera out that's made by Ilford.

Way to go Rup, much congrats on the new family member.

sirhibernac69

There was a big study done a long time ago during the 70's where a lot of profesiional photographers were asked to replace their nice big expensive cameras with the cheap little disposables when they came out to see if what mattered was the quality of the film or the composistion. Interesting enough they found out that even with the cheap, smaller format cameras the pros were able to produce just as good, and sometimes better, images than when they used their pro SLRs. Sometimes I think that you should take the cheap ones and take what you just see instead of trying to worry about apertures, shutter speeds, etc.

In short great shots! Be interested to see what else you find.

paddyjoe

Right you are!

If you realize the capabilities of your film, and don't try to ask too much of it as far as light is concerned, then you can just focus on what is really important. Like composition. Which in my opinion is the MOST important aspect. The Holga has no controls whatsoever regarding exposure (just the speed film you choose to load), so you're free to concentrate only on composition.

I kinda like this one for its simplicity but strength:

virgin

pic number one is now my desktop
makes me want to buy film again
almost !