Recent Holga Photographs

Recently I put another two rolls of Fuji Provia 400X through my Holga 120GN. They've both been processed and scanned (once again thanks to to my friendly Scottish landscape photographer for the scanning) and the results have been uploaded to my site:

Holga Near Billingborough

Holga on Stow Lane

Holga in Bourne Wood

Holga at Wheelgate Park

Second Outing With the Opteka 0.20x Fisheye Conversion Lens

After my very quick test of my new fisheye conversion lens the other night, I was impatient to give it a better test. Last Saturday afternoon had great weather and great skies so I put the fisheye on my EOS 400D and took a walk up to Birthorpe and back.

Here is the result:

Fisheye to Birthorpe

First Roll From the Zero Image 2000

Yesterday I finished uploading the results of the first film through my Zero Image 2000. I'm very impressed with what I've got out of it on a first go.

Another film out of the Holga

Thanks to the processing and scanning skills of my friendly Scottish landscape photographer I have the results of the most recent film from my Holga 120GN online:

Soon It Will Be Clear


If I Know One Thing


Flat Bed


Holga South of Birthorpe


Holga in Grantham - 2009-06-06
That was another roll of Ilford HP+ 400 and, once again, I'm very happy with the results. I think I'm probably more keen on sticking with Fuji Provia 400X in the future, mainly because I feel, for some unknown reason, that colour does the Holga more justice.

Holga in Sleaford and Grantham

Last night I finished processing and uploading images from the latest roll of film through my Holga 120GN. The photographs were taken around Sleaford and Grantham:

Holga Around The Hub

Off Carre Street

No More DIY

Holga in Grantham
Once again I'm really pleased with the results. The Holga really is a great little camera and all kinds of fun to use. The more I use it the more I'm glad I cracked and got one.

And, as always, thanks to go my friendly Scottish landscape photographer for the processing and scanning.

Second Roll of Colour Images From the Holga

Following on from yesterday's set of images, I've now finished processing and uploading the results from the second roll of Fuji Provia 400X through the Holga 120GN:

Orange Swing

Holga Sunsets

Folkingham Road

Breakthrough

Somewhere Near Birthorpe
Overall I'm please with the results from both rolls of 400X. I'll be using it, and the Holga, some more at some point soon.

First Colour Images From the Holga 120GN

I've just finished processing and uploading images taken on the first roll of Fuji Provia 400X that I've put through the Holga 120GN. On the whole the results are okay. Some of the shots were a little over-exposed (I've "rescued" them with a little extreme and "Holgaesque" post-processing) but that's to be expected if you head out in bright sunlight with ISO 400 film (even at f/13). Those with a keen eye will note that there's only 11 images in the sets that follow rather than 12. One of them is a family photo so doesn't go on the site.

Morning Walk In Bourne

Wildcards

Oseby Lane

Industrial Landscape

Overwhelming

Find Another Use

Sunset Walk Last Night

Last night I took the EOS 400D and the Holga 120GN out for a walk up the road to Birthorpe and back. Along the way I managed to capture some fairly dramatic skies. You can see the 400D results over here — you'll have to wait for the Holga results, obviously. :-)

Holga at Belton House

I mentioned last week that, while shooting around Belton House the other weekend, I'd also taken along my Holga 120GN.

One trip to my friendly Scottish landscape photographer later and I have Holga at Belton House.

Feature in the Grantham Journal

It started a week or two ago. Over on twitter I saw Elizabeth Gordon reply to something written by Kevin Day about how he was going to have an article about his photography in his local paper. I added Kevin to my follow list and, later on, caught the pointer to a photograph of the article.

I got to thinking that this was a good idea — local newspapers doing features on local photographers and/or artists in general — and half seriously mentioned it to @GranthamJournal. I got a reply of "yes" (which surprised and delighted me) and "let's do you first" (which surprised and horrified me, in a good way).

Fast forward to today and this is what I find in the paper:

I'm a little freaked to see a photo of me there, and I think I'd have picked a different selection of images if I'd known that they were all going to be reproduced in black and white but, overall, it's a great article, Bob's written some good text to go with it.

It's the first time I've ever had my work shown off like this. While I've had photographs in magazines before (mostly astronomy magazines) this is the first time I've had my general work shown off. It's kind of nice. :-)

Now I'm looking forward to seeing who else is going to be featured in the series.

Recent Photographs

Some photography happened this last weekend. First off, on Saturday, I found myself sat waiting in a car park in Grantham and I had my PowerShot G9 with me so more shots for my Life in a Car Park series happened:

Life in a Car Park #3
On Sunday the weather was really nice so some time was spent in the grounds of Belton House:

Belton House - 2009-04-19
While I Belton I also ran off a roll of Ilford HP5+ 400 in my Holga 120GN. Hopefully I'll get that processed in the next couple or so weeks.

When we got back home I noticed that the blossom on the pear tree in our garden had gone crazy. That was crying out for a shot with my Lensbaby Muse:

Lensbaby Blossom
Finally, later in the afternoon, I decided to take a walk up to Horbling. Partly because I'd not taken any photographs there, but also because I wanted to go find some more shots for the Evidence theme that I'm also toying with at the moment.

Horbling

First Roll From the Holga 120GN

I've just uploaded the results of the first roll of film put through my Holga 120GN. The shooting of the roll was a bit of a rush job, done in about ½ hour, just so I could test that the camera was working well. It appears that it is, and I'm really impressed with the results. I'm especially fond of these two:

There's no question that I'll be putting more film through this.

Another Walk With my Lensbaby

Last Sunday was a nice spring day so I took a walk up to the village of Birthorpe and back. I took along my Powershot G9 and my EOS 400D with the Lensbaby Muse attached.

The results can be seen here: Birthorpe and Back Again.

Another Set of Lubitel 166B Photographs

I just recently finished another roll of Fuji Provia 100F in my Lubitel 166B and, once again, thanks to my friendly Scottish landscape photographer I now have the results.

The first set of images were taken while observing at Woodland Waters. They are a set of three star trails (the first trails I've done on colour film with the Lubitel):

Lubitel Star Trails - 2008-11-22


The second set of images were taken around Sleaford at the same time that I was shooting with my Lensbaby Muse:

Lubitel in Sleaford



The final set of images was shot around Billingborough:

Lubitel in Billingborough