More Hardwick Cemetery

More cheerful images made with film and a pinhole camera.

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Hardwick Road Cemetery #1

You can't beat a good old day out in a Victorian Cemetery with a pinhole camera...well each to his own is what I say.
Thing is with the pinhole camera, nothing is ever really sharp but everything is in focus.
With an aperture of f138 you can get pretty close to your subject, in fact you need to really to get a dramatic shot.
Composition is by guess work - exposure is a combination of experience and guidance from a pinhole exposure calculator.

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Skegness #2

We knew that rain was on the way so it was a case of literally snapping away. It's always a little unpredictable using a toy camera with zone focusing but so , so liberating at the same time.
I was really trying to capture moments, little vignettes of this seaside town and the Holga is just perfect for this.

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A Day in Skegness with the Holga

Since I started shooting with the Holga my photography has been liberated......plastic camera, no shutter speeds.....a sunny or shady setting....guess the focus..........I am getting wonderfully exposed negatives, they print well in the darkroom.....and all for £25....makes you think doesnt it.
Ditch that expensive, boring, same as everyone else has, digital camera and

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Pinhole Pier - Mumbles

Starting to use my Zero 2000 Pinhole camera again and rater liking the results.
You can make a pinhole camera out of almost anything - loads of articles on line.
I bought a rather nice looking wooden model some years ago (when I had spare cash)

Mine looks much like this.

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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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More from Great Yarmouth with the YashicaMat

Took the YashicaMat 124G out for a spin, loaded with Ilford FP4.
Ivy's "Noted Teas Shop" has been there for years, goodness knows how they continue to make money. Likewise Pertwee and Back, the local Ford Garage.
The bonus was spotting BONO in disguise feeding the pigeons!

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