toy time with the infamous holga camera...

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Never in my dreams as a little child did I ever think I would come to live, work and play in Hong Kong. Born in Canada to Chinese parents, I moved here in 1994 and worked as an architect for 4 years before pursuing my greater interest in photography and art. Having published my second book themed and titled \'The Asian Male\', I\'m set to continue and explore all things that make this Universe as diverse and interesting as it is.

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toy time with the infamous holga camera...
2007-08-26 3:23PM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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About a month ago, I met a person on facebook who show-cased some images using his lomo camera. I decided to ask the guy if he would be interested in doing portrait shoot of each other using his Lomo. As a result, the images turned out quite interesting, with full-on saturated colours using slide film. Another friend saw those photos and asked if I would do the same with him. Of course, I said yes, but I decided to go out and get the Holga camera instead of the Lomo (the Lomo is simply over-priced and I couldn't see myself forking out HK$1900 or US$234 for it). The Holga is moderately priced at 1/4 the cost including a manual and book and too, a toy camera. It has a plastic lens similar to the Lomo and rather crappy body (it lets like leak in...a good thing and a bad thing). The thing with the Holga is that it allows for a square frame image and uses film (yeah!). So armed with the Holga, I went out and shot some cool shots of my friend Josh walking about in my neighborhood Sheung Wan/Midlevels area. My favorite is the one of him staring into the camera with this rectangular box outlining him. It was an accidental double exposure...so quite a pleasant surprise.

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shorty
留言於2007-09-18 4:43AM [举报]

Nice photos.
vanityca5e
留言於2007-08-29 11:33AM [举报]

i absolutely love my HOLGA!!!! sad thing is the flash is broken and i don't know where to get it repaired. i'm moving back to hong kong next month, and was wondering - where do you get your medium format film processed? i don't know many photographic resources in hong kong, and would love to get a few suggestions from you!!!

Thanks.
葉偉誠
留言於2007-08-29 3:49AM

incidentally, Josh is one of the guys on my friends list to the right...he's a filmmaker in korea. I also took the shot of him with the green-grey background using a Mamiya 645 camera.
葉偉誠
留言於2007-08-29 3:47AM

the holga is so badly made it hurts me to use it. for a square format, i could go the hasselblad route, which would go for maybe US$1800. i used to LUST for one of those dream machines....
butter
留言於2007-08-28 3:37AM [举报]

Good stuff! It's so cool to see shots like these in our digital age. You wouldn't get a happy accident like that double exposure with digital. I had a Holga once upon a time and broke it the second time I used it. Good thing it was cheap or I would've really been upset.
rottendoubt
留言於2007-08-27 8:48PM [举报]

ya those are some pretty interesting pictures...
musicnote
留言於2007-08-27 7:52AM [举报]

Interesting pictures!
silky
留言於2007-08-27 3:01AM [举报]

Oh I see, it's kind of a very simple camera - that's all I wanted to know!
I'd call it puristic....
Thank's Norman!
葉偉誠
留言於2007-08-27 1:05AM

to silky...erm...well, the camera literally is a piece of plastic. very light-weight, but takes pictures. the design is so bad that it has light leak (bad bad bad as far as a camera is concerned), and uses film. it has manual function for nearly everything and has no light meter. I guess the beauty of any fully manual camera is that you do not know what will turn out, or what will not. mistakes and errors are part of the joy. hence, the double exposed photographs you see are accidents, but suprisingly beautiful to say the least. sometimes, in photography, we desire control of all the elements to obtain the perfect image. the Holga however is very limiting and hence, you have to follow by it's rules. i am not what you would call a Holga fan; it is just nice to get a different look from the more predictable image taking of our automatic counterparts. to etchy...i use both film and digital, depending on the situation and effect i want to achieve. all of my artistic work is film; digital is still flat and the pixel structure is inferior to the molecular structure of grain on film. (sorry for sounding to techy...but the outcome to me is noticeable).
sirendipity
留言於2007-08-26 11:33PM [举报]

Those are cool pictures! I really like the colours in the third one. =)
Etchy
留言於2007-08-26 9:24PM [举报]

wow pretty cool. i like the old school feeling!

Do you use a digital SLR for your regular work now? or do you still use film?
silky
留言於2007-08-26 4:05PM [举报]

Norman, could you please explain for all non-experts in photography what's special about this type of camera you used?

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I am a photographer-artist living and working in Hong Kong. I vary between socially outgoing to hibernating at home with a book...
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I am a photographer-artist living and working in Hong Kong. I vary between socially outgoing to hibernating at home with a book. I challenge myself in many areas of life, namely creatively, intellectually, physically and spiritually. I believe that I am ambitious in whatever I do and try to encourage others to do what they are passionate about. My three main areas of artistic interest are people photography, graphite drawing, and finally painting. All three areas weave in and of my life at different times. I self-published a photography book in 2005 called 'The Asian Male - 1.AM' and just released the follow-up volume 2.AM under the same title. Other than this, I dabble in Tarot readings and enjoy quiet nights with my fur-ball cat 'BB'. My weakness are anyone that is stunningly good looking, whether male, female or somewhere in between (these days, it can be hard to tell), bitter chocolate, gelato, and a nice pair of legs.... I like reading non-fiction books mostly, especially ones that really make me think and question myself and life. Although I am generally quite moody by appearance, it's usually because I'm thinking WAY too much for my own good.
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