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holga cube thingyby `electricjonny

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here's a few more holga shots i did the other day.

this is a popular art peice in ann arbor, the giant metal cube spins and you see kids playing with it a lot.

i tried to go for a symmetry thing here, i've been getting a little too into centering things lately, but i think it works for this one.
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~LilMis Nov 19, 2007
I was there today :nod: spinning that thing is just way to addictive XD
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~instantDisbelief Dec 31, 2006   Photographer
hah, there is a cube exactly like this in the east village in new york city, spinning action and all :)
great choice for a holga shot, very well executed.
and I love the way you said you scan your negatives. let me tell you, i've worked with those fancy multi-thousand dollar Nikon 9000 ED's and they're a huge pain in the ass, especially with holga negatives :P
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~Levvy Mar 23, 2007
I really thought that was the cube from St. Mark's! I was so confused by the trees.
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~speckers Dec 12, 2004   Photographer
haha! I was looking through your gallery and was like, "ohmygosh it's the cube!" it's such a landmark in ann arbor. sweet! and i love my holga. it's so unpredictable and awesome! and i love your work with the Holga, you really get a lot of awesome stuff with it. i need to take mine out more, i've been rockin the local shows a lot lately...and holgas aren't the best for that lol. you need a neg scanner tho. that sounds way too involved ;)
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`electricjonny Dec 12, 2004  Hobbyist Photographer
i tried to get landmark type shots that day. i love my holga. they do make some interesting images. sometimes it's nice to not worry about apature and shutter speeds. just snap off the shot.

and for scanning, i just put the neg on my flatbed scanner with a peice of glass on top and shine a light over it while i scan the neg. it works pretty good most of the time, but sometimes it takes a while to get the light right to get the right contrast range.
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~speckers Dec 12, 2004   Photographer
i can imagine....of course i'm sort of spoiled with all the awesome equipment at WCC, but....yeah. i don't even own a flatbed scanner lol. but i use the stuff at school all the time. it's so awesome!
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~unicronwarrior Sep 17, 2004
Wow, I never knew you used a Holga dude, awesome.

I really like this shot in particular, it's very surrealistic. The tones and vignetting are really damn fine. looks like youve got a good holga.
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~brasschug33 Aug 20, 2004
This really works-- the solid and hard-lined cube contrasts so well with the Holga's distortion and vignetting on the corners. Excellent composition! I really like your Holga stuff. What negative scanner do you use? Great work! :D
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`electricjonny Aug 21, 2004  Hobbyist Photographer
thanks for the comments.

it's not exactly a negitive scanner. i have a Canon Lide 30 scanner, with no negitive attatchment or anything. i don't even know where to get a 120 format film scanner. so i put the negitive on the scanner with a peice of glass on top. then i put a few sheets of smooth photo printer paper on top of the glass. then i take a flourescent light and put that about two feet above that with the top of the scanner open. then i scan it in, invert it, flip it and tweak the curves to get it looking normal again. it takes a few tries to get the brightness looking right, adding more paper or taking paper away.

i could take the negs to a lab and have prints made, but with my way i can get the whole frame in with all the numbers and printing along the edge of the negitive.
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~brasschug33 Aug 21, 2004
thats really cool. i have to try that, ive just started using 120 mm film.
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