Comments on: quiet grace http://www.yourcourageouslife.com/2009/12/17/quiet-grace/ Daily Courage Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:28:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: creativevoyage http://www.yourcourageouslife.com/2009/12/17/quiet-grace/#comment-148 creativevoyage Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:23:28 +0000 http://www.yourcourageouslife.com/blog/?p=197#comment-148 ahh I rather like the blur on the holga gives a sense of mystery = a frieind photographer recommends a monopod to steady the holga. They are quite cheap to buy and make me feel I'm some kind of tribeswoman waving a sacred stick around ! ahh I rather like the blur on the holga gives a sense of mystery = a frieind photographer recommends a monopod to steady the holga. They are quite cheap to buy and make me feel I’m some kind of tribeswoman waving a sacred stick around !

]]> By: admin http://www.yourcourageouslife.com/2009/12/17/quiet-grace/#comment-147 admin Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:14:40 +0000 http://www.yourcourageouslife.com/blog/?p=197#comment-147 Well, lighting-wise I am still on a learning curve with this camera. I haven't yet learned what kinds of light are ideal. I thought I had enough natural light in my studio the other day to do a shot and what resulted was a dark room that highlighted the flash. I'm trying to go out each day and just take one picture in a different kind of light to see what happens and how things change. Oh, god, the Holga. The Holga is my nemesis! [ shakes fist ] SO many of my shots turn out blurry. The camera is so lightweight that I can't seem to help moving it. Such a disappointment. But the shots that do turn out well are fun, especially since I discovered that sfphotoworks.com will develop Holga film at $10 a roll ($5 to process, $5 more to print). The first place I went to quoted me $16 per roll and then-gasp-charged me a whopping $24 when all was said and done. Definitely not going back there. But there is also something I really love about the feel of the Holga in my hands, too. I'm not giving up on it yet! Well, lighting-wise I am still on a learning curve with this camera. I haven’t yet learned what kinds of light are ideal. I thought I had enough natural light in my studio the other day to do a shot and what resulted was a dark room that highlighted the flash. I’m trying to go out each day and just take one picture in a different kind of light to see what happens and how things change.

Oh, god, the Holga. The Holga is my nemesis! [ shakes fist ] SO many of my shots turn out blurry. The camera is so lightweight that I can’t seem to help moving it. Such a disappointment. But the shots that do turn out well are fun, especially since I discovered that sfphotoworks.com will develop Holga film at $10 a roll ($5 to process, $5 more to print). The first place I went to quoted me $16 per roll and then-gasp-charged me a whopping $24 when all was said and done. Definitely not going back there.

But there is also something I really love about the feel of the Holga in my hands, too. I’m not giving up on it yet!

]]> By: creativevoyage http://www.yourcourageouslife.com/2009/12/17/quiet-grace/#comment-146 creativevoyage Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:17:16 +0000 http://www.yourcourageouslife.com/blog/?p=197#comment-146 Hi Kate I think that yes taking a lot of photographs is crucial to develop your eye and see what your equipment will do but as you have already been taking a lot of photographs your eye will be much better developed for taking polaroids. I found this when I moved from the LOMO LCA 35mm to the Holga medium format which is more exepensive. However my solution is just to take looads of rolls and wait to process them when I have the funds. Stangely I've not come across that hatered of self taught photographers - I'm firmly of the opnion that very little can be taught anyway ! Hi Kate

I think that yes taking a lot of photographs is crucial to develop your eye and see what your equipment will do but as you have already been taking a lot of photographs your eye will be much better developed for taking polaroids. I found this when I moved from the LOMO LCA 35mm to the Holga medium format which is more exepensive. However my solution is just to take looads of rolls and wait to process them when I have the funds.

Stangely I’ve not come across that hatered of self taught photographers – I’m firmly of the opnion that very little can be taught anyway !

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