My Holga underwater…

[brian schiele]

I have seen a lot of photographs were the camera was underwater so I thought I’d try it with my Holga…
I just put my camera in a zip lock bag
What do you think about this one?
Brian

[olle bulder]

I really really like it. Very good thinking putting youre camera in a ziplock and a nice result.

Olle

[Neal Osborn]

Brian . . . Welcome to the board.

[Chad Simcox]

Yesteday I was trying to think of how I could shoot with my holga in the water when I go bodyboarding with friends. We’re not doing anything gnarly so I wouldn’t need a rigid housing. I hadn’t thought of using a plastic zip-lock bag. I might as well give it a try! Thanks for posting. Oh and This shot turned out great. It looks like you’re under water with minimal distortion.

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[brian schiele]

Yesteday I was trying to think of how I could shoot with my holga in the water when I go bodyboarding with friends. We’re not doing anything gnarly so I wouldn’t need a rigid housing. I hadn’t thought of using a plastic zip-lock bag. I might as well give it a try! Thanks for posting. Oh and This shot turned out great. It looks like you’re under water with minimal distortion.

I have read, that others have tried unlubricated condoms, the XXL ones I am sure.

[anonymous]

Hi Brian Welcome-

I’m almost tempted to buy a Holga just so I can legitimately ask for XXL condoms at the pharmacy without BS’ing :)))

Holga style- Diana/Fujipet type 120 cams were a big rage in the early 90’s in the ” fine art ” crowd- lots of great pics and bodies of work done with them .

[brian schiele]

Hi Brian Welcome-

I’m almost tempted to buy a Holga just so I can legitimately ask for XXL condoms at the pharmacy without BS’ing :)))

Holga style- Diana/Fujipet type 120 cams were a big rage in the early 90’s in the ” fine art ” crowd- lots of great pics and bodies of work done with them .  Prob. always seems to be that the visual  syntax is very specific so the images work beautifully over a Holga/Diana/Fujipet 120 style series /narrative  but  don’t play well with other image forms in a visual narrative context. So while single images are interesting they often seem dis-conected.

Maybe  exploring an essay/topic specific  type approach using  the Holga
would be an interesting/refreshing FF’ing  piece?

just a thought

Will
 

ps- Love the pic and the other in your Hi post – you ever looked  at pinhole work? if you like plastic lens cam looks  you may like pinhole as well.

Thanks for the comments Will.
I almost spit out my drink when I read the first line..

Yes I am exploring this as a long term project, you can see what I have so far on Flickr, I go by “Red Holga Man” over there.

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