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Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
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Friday, 27 July 2007

Photographic journey #2 - SLR

After playing around with the Holga for a few months I realized how much fun photography is. It's the present and past in an instant, we can view a fraction of a second for as long as we like. Though the Holga was a lot of fun, it is somewhat basic (for learning about photography) and expensive. 120mm film is about $5-6 for 12 6x6 shots and developing is about $7-8.

Luckily for me I had a friend who didn't use his Minolta Dynax 303si SLR so I borrowed it for a few months. I hadn't used an SLR for many years so it took a little getting used to but no harm can be done by playing around and here are some examples of what I came up with.

Here is my Minolta 303si set on flickr.

Akiyoshi Tree


Tokoji Grave


Akiyoshi gliders


Shimane art


Kosanji


Naomi


Tomonoura View

Thursday, 19 July 2007

Photographic journey #1: The Holga

It was back in July or August '06 that I first got re-interested in photography when I purchased a Holga 120 CFN through a shop that sells lomographic gear imported by Superheadz in Japan. All these stores have a corner with all this cool lomo stuff and I just felt like spending some money. Back in Uni when I was studying Visual Arts, I did take some photography class doing B&W with an old SLR but at that time, I was more interested in digital photography and photo manipulation so didn't really get into it. So, I have my Holga and some 120 film and away I went.

Here's some example shots while experimenting with this medium format, plastic toy camera.

You can view my whole Holga stream on my flickr page.


Gion, Kyoto: Fuji Provia 100, double exposure, (August 2006)


Yokohama Bay: Fuji Acros 100, (August 2006)


Spider Bay: Ilford XP2 Super, double exposure, (September 2006)


Smoking: Kodak 400VC, red filter, (July 2006)


Bridge: Kodak 400 NC, (October 2006)


The Scream: Fuji PN400, double exposure, (November 2006)


Tokoji Grave: Fuji PN400, double exposure, (November 2006)


Kosanji Temple: Kodak 400 NC, (October 2006)