Tag Archives: holga

Seven Thoughts on Seven Images – Part Two

May 31, 2017 by mspau 0 Comments

New techniques, new film, and new locations can help you find new pathways to creative images. Most of my images feature people against cityscape backgrounds. This image was taken back in July 2007 – I was still a relatively young buck still! I had been shooting for some time with digital whilst still in the USA – […]

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1. Technique
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Discouraged? Develop a Split Personality…

August 6, 2016 by mspau 1 Comment

There are times when everyone gets frustrated with their images. Surfing the interwebs to see other photographers’ feeds can be inspiring and instructional. But let’s admit it – sometimes it can also be demoralising… depending on your state of mind. The little man in the back of my head starts piping up – “when are […]

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1. Technique
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Creative Exercise – Learn to See More

August 9, 2015 by mspau 1 Comment

First of all, make sure it is an interesting day! Secondly, this is not about you but taking the time to see more of the world that exists around you every single day. Now that I have more of an interesting intro for the Facebook leader post, let’s start from the start. I was recently […]

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1. Technique, 8. Projects
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Hong Kong Analogue Camera Trail – The Photocrafters

April 6, 2015 by mspau 1 Comment

Like a lot of these places, this one was on an upper level of a very seedy looking building. When I walked up the entrance stairs to the lift, I was greeted by some stern looking HK Police Officers arguing with the door person – who seemed to be pushing back pretty assertively… Something had […]

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2. Gear, Hong Kong Analogue Camera Trail
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Featured Melbourne Image “Five Ways” – Dee Smith

October 3, 2014 by mspau 2 Comments

Dee’s print “Five Ways” is an excellent example of toy camera photography. It was taken on a Holga using Kodak Ektar iso 100 negative film. I picked up Dee’s print at the recent Melbourne Silvermine analogue exhibition “Unsensored 2014”. The exhibition is annual event aimed at demonstrating the art of film photography lives on! You […]

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Holga “Toy” Camera

July 12, 2014 by mspau 3 Comments

Analogue is good. Overlay that with plastic and you get something great! Holga cameras were designed and started manufacture in China during the heady days of the early ’80’s. I suppose they were manufactured as a super economical camera suitable for a radiant socialist future. The are a medium format camera – ie. they take film like […]

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Holga Panoramic

June 21, 2014 by mspau 2 Comments

This is one big ass piece of plastic. Seriously, this thing is massive! The Holga Pan 120 takes medium format film and shoots 6cm x 12cm negs – yes, 60mm x 120mm! The camera technically has a 90mm fixed focal length lens – the best estimate I could find for 35mm equivalency was a 29mm […]

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