Starting My Holga Project

I have officially broken my poor little Holga out of its camera bag and started photographing downtown Santa Barbara with it. Taking photos with the Holga is super easy and surprisingly fun. Of course I tossed the instruction booklet away ages ago so I can only guess at the settings and figure them out as I shoot. Shutter speed and aperture values are set and cannot be changed so I have no real exposure control. Having no control over my exposure adds a level of suspense that I'm not use to when taking photos. I still have no clue how the final images are going to look but I'm excited to develop my film this weekend and find out. My Holga is the 120 medium format so the film is a bit larger then 35mm, which is the most common size film used by most people. It gives me the choice between 12 or 16 images per roll. For this roll I have chosen to shot 16 images of downtown Santa Barbara at night. I love all the white lights wrapped around the tress that line State Street. It really is a beautiful view and I hope that comes across in these photos. For this first roll I am shooting black and white film because of the timeless quality associated with the look it provides. To me Christmas has that same timeless feeling so using black and white film seemed like the obvious choice.

Don't be surprised if a photo or two of Hobbes pop up along. After all he is just way too cute not to photograph.

xo,

Kandie