The first roll of lomographs I took! It was exciting to manually load the 120mm film canister into the Holga. As medium format films come wrapped around a plastic rod and medium thickness paper, the only way to load the films without exposing them to light was to do it in a very dark place (managed to do it in a cupboard).
I brought it to my uncle's house and clicked away on the Holga! Very fun! I tried double exposures too by superimposing a frame onto the previous one. Holga 120N is one of a few lomo cameras that allow this.
That roll was processed at a photolab in Serangoon Central. Service was good but VERY SLOW and made me think twice about going back for more processing jobs.
Behold! Here is the first roll of photos taken on the Holga 120N!
The first roll of film was totally blank! The photo lab guy didn't even bother to cut the roll into the customary six or seven strips. It was disappointing...not because of the wasted $5 processing the films, but all that effort taking the photos went down the drain. But valuable lesson learnt here.
I brought it to my uncle's house and clicked away on the Holga! Very fun! I tried double exposures too by superimposing a frame onto the previous one. Holga 120N is one of a few lomo cameras that allow this.
That roll was processed at a photolab in Serangoon Central. Service was good but VERY SLOW and made me think twice about going back for more processing jobs.
Behold! Here is the first roll of photos taken on the Holga 120N!
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The first roll of film was totally blank! The photo lab guy didn't even bother to cut the roll into the customary six or seven strips. It was disappointing...not because of the wasted $5 processing the films, but all that effort taking the photos went down the drain. But valuable lesson learnt here.
RULE ZERO:
SUNLIGHT = LOMO
NO SUNLIGHT = NO LOMO
(unless you got a flash attachment on the camera)
I read up A LOT on film exposure after that, but shall not go into too much detail here. In summary, light comes in sixteen levels, from Exposure Values EV1 to EV16, with EV16 the strongest. An object is in EV16 under direct sunlight with clear skies. EV15 is direct sunlight with some clouds, EV14 has more clouds, and so on. For a Holga, at an f11 aperture setting, the lowest EV it can effectively operate in is about EV13 to EV14 for a roll of ISO100 film. The first roll (ISO100) was taken with indoor settings with indoor flourescent lighting. That may look bright to us but its actually at EV7 or EV8 only! That's many many times weaker than sunlight, and therefore resulting in a blank roll (at ISO100).
If you intend to start out on lomography, this is the MOST BASIC RULE to remember. But of course, you should always research on the optimum light conditions for your camera, as different cameras have different aperture values.
Yes, one of the 'so-called' rules of lomography is "dont think, just shoot" but when you get lousy photos, it doesn't hurt to research a bit and prepare #LIKEAPRO before going on a lomo excursion.
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