Some Holga accidents are happy, some, not so much

July 5, 2012 Dave

A few weeks back, I went to a car show and did a pretty cool photo of a 57 Chevy in B&W using my Holga camera. I was loving the shapes I saw and thought it would be pretty cool. Fast forward a few weeks and I’m ready to shoot some of the shots I had been thinking about for a while and noticed that the back wasn’t properly attached on one side of the camera. I resealed it, advanced the film one shot that I knew the frame would be wrecked for and then hoped for the best. Well… here’s what I got when I developed the roll:

57 Chevy, with light leak — Stupid light leaks!

When I finished the developing and was hanging the film to dry I noticed a funky looking negative and wondered if it had been messed up by light leaks too. Nope. This was a double exposure! Apparently, when I was messing with the lightleak I wasn’t paying attention to advancing the film. In this case, it was a kick save and a beauty! A farm tractor photo under a photo of some farm land and a tree. Sweet!

2012-07-01 Holga Annapolis Trip B&W001 — Tractor and tree on a farm image combined!

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I knew there were photos in these scenes…

July 2, 2012 Dave 4 Comments

I’ve been driving by these four locations for a while as I head from Dover to Washington, DC. Seems like it’s always a rush to get there and no time to stop, or it’s dark or, or, or.

This was a rough weekend for me in some respects. I took the chance to do some photo therapy to clear my head and went back to get these shots.

I’ve seen this tree in the field for many years. I’ve tried shooting it before and the photos just didn’t work. Friday night as I drove past the tree, I figured out I needed to be about 100-200 yards down the road from where I shot before. When I went back today, I got it!

Black eye Susans and Wolf's Head Oil — I knew there was a cool photo here!

Closed Gas Station, Templeville MD — By doing this in black and white, you can’t tell when it was done, now or 40 years ago.

Color Closed Station, Templeville MD — I wonder if I can just walk in.

The Farm House is Gone — Part of a series of such photos. There was a farm house here. One thing you might notice is it’s higher on the right side, where the house used to be. Agricultural practices have caused erosion that lowers the profile of the land that wasn’t protected from plowing because there is a house there!

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Getting my HCB on: iPhone photos from a waiting room window

July 2, 2012 Dave 2 Comments

Henry Cartier Bresson was a French photographer that specialized in street photography. I’ve been interested for a while in photos of people on their phones or playing with their electronic devices. It seems like a way to isolate themselves from the people that are standing right next to them. It shows the growth of the use of cell phones. It’s somewhat ironic that I did the photos using a pretty decent camera that disguises itself as an iPhone 4s. Photos were captured using Camera+ and processed in the same app. Mostly applying the clarity filter and the black and white conversion afterwards.

Anyways, I found myself in a hospital waiting room looking out the window for a little while this weekend. I couldn’t help trying to make the best of the bad situation. I got 20 decent photos in about an hour and these are the best ofs from that group.