Another Anglesey Holga Image

Ive been really pleased with the images the Holga Toy Camera produces.
I gave this some local bleaching using "ferri" bleach to lift the whites in the statue. Combined with a fairly heavy contrast dialled into the Magnifax Colour Head.

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Anglesey Abbey #6 - Holga

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Anglesey Abbey #5 - Holga

We chatted at length about the work he did as a volunteer gardener at Anglesey Abbey.
I asked him if he would pose for me, set the holga to the portrait zone, flipped the exposure switch to overcast and made an exposure.
Back in the darkroom with the film loaded into a stainless steel spiral I developed the FP4 for 9 minutes in 10 year old Agfa Rodinal before printing onto Ilford Multigrade Fibre Paper

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Holga Girls

For those of you who were wondering (from my vast army of followers - please click on the FOLLOW ME Link even if I subject you to e-mails as it makes me feel better) this is a Holga Toy Camera. It's very basic with two apertures, f8 and f11 or in other words sunny and not so sunny! a fixed shutter speed of 1/100th of a second, a plastic uncoated lens that is soft around the edges and a built in flash.

Photo of Julie, Georgia and Blossom taken whilst on a family walk to Broughton a week or so ago.

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Holga 120FN "Toy Camera"

I am somewhat late jumping on the "Toy Camera" craze but I suppose it was only a matter of time before I gave in an d bought one to see what all the fuss was about.
The Holga 120FN as its name suggests takes 120 roll film or you can "shoot sprockets" by fudging a 35mm film into it.
The plastic lens adds a dreamy vignetted quality to the images. Focus is guess work, no meter just two apertures of f8 a d f11 (cloudy or sunny)
For this image I used Ilford FP4 a 125ASA film, probably better off using a slightly faster film like HP5 but nonethe less I like the result.
Darkroom print, Meopta Magnifax enlarger, Schneider Companon 105mm lens, Ilford MG paper

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