Holga + Ilford Delta 400 + Rodinal 1/200
Showing posts with label Holga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holga. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Studio Holga
Holga 120N with a RF -flash trigger and a close-up attachment made from empty toilet paper rolls. Allmost looks like a real camera.
Holga Close-ups
Holga + Hoya close-up lenses + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200
Some selfportraits taken with a brand new Holga. This one has a hot shoe for flash.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Friday, December 21, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Rosedal, BsAs
Holga + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200
El rosedal de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Great thing about BW film is that it can take amazing amounts of under & over exposure.
Like in this picture here, scenery was a delight for human eye but light conditions were terrible. Subject is in the shadows whilst the background is bathing in hard midday sun. This combined with Holga which has only 2 shutter speeds (bulb & about 1/250) would probably end up in a catastrophy without the flexibility of modern films. If relying on automatics of my film scanner the end result would be something shown on the 2 small examples, dark or washed-up.
Someone has said that all the needed information is in the negative, you just have to know how to dig it out. One could probably do this digging easier with photoshop but you wont find info about that here. Instead this is how i did it.
First of all I like to develop my films with stand developing. That means long developing time with weak dilution. This way negative comes out smooth, low contrast and with as much of information stored as possible, making it easy to manipulate in darkroom.
Recipe for stand developing i prefer is Rodinal 1 + water 200 (20°C) for about 2 hours. I've done the same with Tmax -dev, then its Tmax 1 + 32 water, but this picture here is with Rodinal.
1. Base exposure, 10 seconds with filter no. 5 to bring out the details of the under exposed main subject (Vika) and the pole Vika is leaning to.
2. 6 seconds with filter no. 3 whilts masking the main subject all the time. This brings out the leafs and the masking prevents the main subject from becoming too dark.
3. Base exposure, 2 seconds with filter no. 3. This adds to the leafs and also gives Vika's skin and the pole some tone.
4. Burning through a hole with filter no. 00 for about 2 mins. Brings out the water and palm trees.
5. Same as phase 4 but about 30 seconds burning around this area.
Masking in this picture might be bit rough but after all its Holga art so if its somewhere near its good enough.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Avenida de Mayo
Holga + Kodak Portra 160vc
Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Back home, got 10 rolls of 35mm (360 frames) and 10 rolls of 120 mm to develop. So you can guess the subject of next updates.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Greetings from BsAs
Holga + Kodak Portra 160vc
Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Update from the trip. "Scanned" these negatives with a digicam against a window.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Misc. Holga summer shots
Holga
Jep, jep, reaching to the archives to keep this blog alive. Gotta pull myself together!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
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