Glorious Freaks - The Holga Sessions

December 11, 2009

If you’ve ever wondered what using a cheap plastic camera in a professional photography studio with a few thousand pounds worth of lighting equipment looks like, wonder no further…..

A little while ago we did a photo shoot with The Glorious Freaks you can see the digital results from the Canon 5D Mk II at this blog post.

With the first Holga & Diana Camera workshops taking place on Sunday 7th February, we are trying lots of different techniques with the cameras.

We were actually quite surprised by the quality of the images from the Holga camera, (a cheap plastic camera first made in the early 80s and with a plastic lens) under studio lights. We expected them to be a lot more lo-fi. In fact we got so many good shots from the two rolls of film that it was difficult to narrow the edit down.

So would you believe here are a load of shots taken on the Holga camera with film that expired in 1998.

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Responses to Glorious Freaks - The Holga Sessions

1. Erin says:

   December 11, 2009 at 3:25 am

   Quite a different feel to these! I like this last one with all the weird stuff going on with the lights. And of course the one with Malcolm I didn’t know the film was 11 years out of date. That makes it 5 years older than the kid in the pic!

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2. justnoey says:

   December 11, 2009 at 3:48 am

   I love it! Infact I like even better than the digital! The vignette and the film grain texture breathes life into the picture.

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3. PedroKid says:

   December 11, 2009 at 5:30 am

   Yeah really cool.
   great to see the difference in results from the Holga.

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4. lissyloola says:

   December 11, 2009 at 5:32 am

   Ooh, like it. Who needs a fancy pants camera?

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5. Alex Bambooly says:

   December 11, 2009 at 5:35 am

   The fluorescent tubes do weird things to that film. Nice to see a bit of colour pumped in. I was beginning to think that the whole evening took place in black and white.

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6. Chris Harrison says:

   December 11, 2009 at 10:45 am

   Great set of images Adam. Very inspiring experiment.

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