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There's something in my Holga
Laura Thorn
The Idea
Modify your Holga with some tiny visitors! Place tiny paper shapes inside your Holga to create a silhouette on each photo. The Holga is a simple, and cheap, medium-format plastic camera (120mm roll film) hailing from China. Given that the Holga is built almost entirely from plastic, it produces a very distinctive lo-fi photograph. You can expect blurring, sharpness, vignetting, and light leaks. Hooray!
Retirement
Including a Little lens flare in this image enhances the silhouette effect.
The Ingredients
- ▶ Any camera
- ▶ Holga with 6 × 6cm mask (or similar plastic camera that you don't mind messing with)
- ▶ 120mm, medium-format roll film
- ▶ Thick paper (c. 180gsm|
- ▶ Computer ...
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