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

Objects In Space

A little departure from the norm for me. A set of photographs, but not taken with any of my cameras. I decided to start a series of still life images using my ageing flatbed scanner as the camera. The result is Objects In Space.

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

Recent Photographs

Last weekend was a long weekend here in the UK and, as normally happens on a bank holiday weekend, the weather was pretty awful (yes, mostly sunny week with rain most of the weekend). However, despite the lousy weather, I did manage to get some photography done:

Three Views of a Structure

Unsettled

Uncomfortable

Disturbance

Chasing the Fleeting

CRT Assemblage #5

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.

New Toy: Holga 120GN

Ever since I got my Lubitel 166B this has pretty much been inevitable. It's taken some time, I've managed to resist for quite some time but, last Monday, I cracked and finally placed an order.

I now own a Holga:

A Holga 120GN to be precise.

You can pretty much blame it all on Tom Gooding. Last Christmas he got a 120N and I happened to ask him where he'd got it from. He pointed me at Holga Magic. They looked pretty good, had good prices and, given that someone I knew had used them without bother, they also now had good "word of mouth" too.

So I bookmarked them and managed to hold off until last Monday when I finally cracked.

The service from Holga Magic was excellent. Shipped without 2 days of placing the order and arrived a week after I'd placed the order.

Now to find the time to go out and have a play...

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

More Lensbaby Muse Shots

Yesterday afternoon I wandered down the the local park with the Lensbaby Muse back on the EOS 400D. The result is Billingborough Park - 2009-03-01.

Billingborough Snow

We've had a fair bit of snow this week, something that's pretty rare in this part of the UK. So, today, I couldn't resist heading out with the camera to take some shots when the snow let up: Billingborough Snow.

Why I Like Twitter

Today is a good example of why I like twitter:

• I can find out where it's snowing, and add to the map.
• I can read other people's snow stories, no matter how silly.
• I can find pictures of lots of snowmen built today.

Lensbaby Muse Case

I've been getting on pretty well with my Lensbaby Muse, so well that I've actually made a point of taking it off the 400D for now to stop me shooting everything with it (really, I'm not kidding).

Having done this, I got to thinking: generally, when I go out to shoot, I tend to pick a lens and stick with it for the day. On the whole this works well and the fact that I do this is reflected in the fact that I don't actually have any lens cases for any of my lenses. The Lensbaby sort of throws this idea out though. It's the sort of lens that doesn't work for every shot but it's also the sort of lens you want to hand for those shots you see that cry out for the Lensbaby treatment.

So I decided to get a case for it. Turns out the Muse has a case available for it and so I ordered one last week and it turned up last Saturday. I'm very impressed with it too. I was expecting something "squishy" but it's actually very rigid. It feels like you could drive over it and it would survive (I'm not suggesting you could, I'm just saying it feels like it — if you want to try that then all the usual disclaimers apply ;-)). Even better, it's not much bigger than the lens itself and, because of this, it means the whole thing easily fits into a (large) coat pocket — very handy!

And, as a bonus, it's a perfect snug fit for the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II.