Okay, this is not the actual ice cream cone and probably just as well 🙂
Kastrup, Holga 7, 2014
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Category Archives: Amager Beach
Kastrup, Holga 6, 2014
Few would guess that you can eat home made ice cream by the marina less than a mile from Copenhagen Airport. How’s that for a stop over? 🙂
Kastrup, Holga 5, 2014
I brought my Holga lens with me on a trip to one of the local ice cream places – by the water but even closer to the airport, surrounded by sail boats rather than swimmers.
Amager Beach 20, 2013
I’m not a guy so I don’t find women in bathing suits all that interesting in their own right 🙂 I like something like this better…
Amager Beach 19, 2013
I like the mood the sun light and the silhouette brings to the otherwise fairly well known scene.
Amager Beach 18, 2013
One more detour before I return to the Holga lens… Just before we left on vacation to the US, I was hanging out with a friend of mine by the beach one evening. Having young children I don’t often make it out after dinner so I made sure to bring my camera.
My friend wondered why I was shooting into the sun until I showed her on the camera what I captured.
Amager Beach, Holga 4, 2014
A detail from the vintage car by the ice cream van…
If you put a Holga lens on your DSLR you must forget about auto focus. In fact forget about manual focus as well. What you’ve got are four ikon on the lens, from ‘close’ to ‘mountain’. If you can remember the intervals and brought a measuring tape, you might the focus just right. If you are like me, you take an educated guess – if you remember. If you’re off – well, ‘blurry’ never looked so good 🙂
Amager Beach, Holga 3, 2014
This car in this image makes you wonder in what decade it was taken. I think I took it two weeks ago 🙂
Amager Beach, Holga 2, 2014
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.
Amager Beach, Holga 1, 2014
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.
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