05 Mar 2005 - Parking Lot Antennas

Holga, Work
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This would have been a throw-away shot, except for two important lessons it taught me about the Holga. First, the film doesn't advance by itself. (Easy to forget when you haven't used film in 3 years!) Second, an accidental double-exposure might turn a boring picture into a more interesting one!

This is the first thing I shot after I loaded my first roll of 120mm film into the Holga. I was just making sure I knew how to trip the shutter, so I shot a frame in the dull and entirely boring parking lot at work. The building on the right houses space shuttle and space station mockups; I don't actually know what the antennas on the left do.

I vaguely remember snapping a photo in the elevator by accident, as I was inspecting the camera lens. Of course I hadn't advanced the film yet. So the ceiling grid of the elevator is seen in the sky of the parking lot shot. I didn't fade the ceiling into the other shot at all; it actually came out of the camera like that. Turned out to be a pretty interesting effect...


Steve
Mar 05 2005
10:53 AM

This is a great shot. The light fixture works perfectly against the sky. The Holga is a great way to get back to one's roots in film photography. I started with a 127 film Brownie!

Kylie
Mar 05 2005
12:00 PM

Ahh the joy of the Holga. I usually double expose at LEAST once on every roll LoL

RainKing
Mar 07 2005
4:46 AM

haha really cool how sometimes we get a great shot by accident.

dad
Mar 07 2005
3:36 PM

Obviously, it's an enormous alien spaceship investigating the primitive intelligence of earthlings. Somewhat carelessly, they have uncloaked.

Charles
Mar 09 2005
10:49 AM

That's what's great about the Holga, the accidental double and sometimes even triple exposures. I just experimented with double/triple exposures on my digital camera. No the same but still interesting.

Harpreet
Mar 09 2005
12:28 PM

This was new for me. Looks very nice. Saroy, you should add RSS so that it is easy to keep track.

Crash
Mar 12 2005
7:18 AM

wow .... good photo accident !