I love the dreamy, soft focus look of this plastic lens. I love my sharp Nikon images too this has a special feel to it.
Using the Holga lens has its challenges which is part of the fun. For instance you can’t crop or you would ruin the vignette effect. So you better get the composition right.
Back at the ice cream van – but this time with my new friend Holga. She may come cheap but she sure has a lot of personality.
Holga is a camera brand originating in Hong Kong with the purpose of bringing affordable photography to the Chinese. The cameras are made all of plastic and in time the special look you get from wobbly plastic and light leaks have created its own following.
I do have a real Holga camera. I even have some films waiting in the fridge. But as I haven’t yet figured a way to be able to afford to have them developed and scanned, my new friend is a Holga lens, fitted for my DSLR Nikon.
What on Earth, you may well ask, is the point of taking out of focus images with light leaks with a DSLR? To me, the point is that it’s fun to play. This next blog-series is about the Holga lens and the special look it creates.
A last look at the sea bath for now. I may well return…
Another peak at the construction of the sea bath at Kastrup by the airport…
Looking at a peaceful image like this, it’s hard to imagine the airport is about 1 mile away…
Some facts: The construction is open to the public at all times. It’s not actually named ‘The Snail’. The wood is azobé wood. The bridge is 100 meter long.
If you visit this blog regularly you’ll know I hardly ever work in Black and White. But something about these images of The Snail begged me to try.
Once Amager Beach was a slim rim of sand and mostly grass coupled with extremely low water. Then the beach park was built, adding miles and miles to what was already there in the form of a new beach line much further out with lots and lots of sand, lagoons up to the original coast line and bridges to walk or drive to get to the new beach line.
But the two neighboring counties could not agree so what was created on the Copenhagen side was a lot more spectacular than what happened on the Kastrup side. This particular construction is pretty spectacular, though. It’s called The Snail and is a bath platform where people can lie in the sun and dive into the deep end rather than have to walk far in the shallow water and not be able to dive.
This image is a bridge. What? Well, it’s a bridge to the next small series from Amager Beach. At first glance it seems to be shot at the same time as the previous two images but it’s not. This is from the very early fall and in the morning rather than in the evening. Knowing that you can see the differences in the light.
This is a rerun. I posted this image last year as well but, seriously, how many were watching 🙂 It was because of this image I was by Amager Beach in dusk as I was determined to capture the windmills from this angle. After several attempts that just weren’t right, I decided to try the ‘Golden Hour’. Good idea – especially if my zoom had been just a little bit longer…
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