Star Trails

I left my Holga out overnight with the shutter open. My method to hold the shutter open was to wrap the shutter release round and round with an elastic band. Some people just cut the shutter spring, but that's too permanent for me.



The exposure was about 6 hours give or take. I picked the camera back up before dawn, but it was already getting light, probably would have had more trails if I'd gotten up a little bit earlier.

Nostalgia

These two pictures are very nostalgic looking. The Holga, teamed with the black and white film produces something from the 70's, or earlier! The two subjects here also enhance the effect - the ancient kitchen and a simple seaside scene.

Here is Diane again with some butternut squash.



..and Anstruther seafront.



Both remind me of something my granda would have taken.

Double Exposure

One of the most fun things about the Holga is the capacity to do double, or multiple exposures with it. I like the unpredictability of this. One fun approach is to shoot the same subject twice from two very different angles, which is what I did here;



The exposures don't have the same saturation as each other, and this leads to lovely dreamy effects, like a flashback sequence in a film.