Friday, January 28, 2005
I added a few new images to my holga photos page.
It's interesting, since I've been shooting so much with the holga, I hardly notice the strange things the holga does to an image--like double images and curved straight lines. It just seems normal.
I was thinking how taking pictures with the holga is kind of like music by John Cage, when he would put things on the piano strings; or when William Burroughs would rip up his manuscripts and randomly put them back together (I'm pretty sure he did this...). Shooting with the holga has that element of randomness and chance.
It's fun and challenging to allow this randomness to make it through the editing process. When I take pictures, I just react and shoot. Sometimes just one shot of a scene, sometimes a whole roll. The challenging part is deciding what pictures I like when looking at the contact sheets and work prints. Believe me, there's a fine like between shots that work and ones that blow. The fun is deciding that yes, this works and going with it, because sometimes it's not too obvious that the photo is working--it's kind of a leap of faith.
It's interesting, since I've been shooting so much with the holga, I hardly notice the strange things the holga does to an image--like double images and curved straight lines. It just seems normal.
I was thinking how taking pictures with the holga is kind of like music by John Cage, when he would put things on the piano strings; or when William Burroughs would rip up his manuscripts and randomly put them back together (I'm pretty sure he did this...). Shooting with the holga has that element of randomness and chance.
It's fun and challenging to allow this randomness to make it through the editing process. When I take pictures, I just react and shoot. Sometimes just one shot of a scene, sometimes a whole roll. The challenging part is deciding what pictures I like when looking at the contact sheets and work prints. Believe me, there's a fine like between shots that work and ones that blow. The fun is deciding that yes, this works and going with it, because sometimes it's not too obvious that the photo is working--it's kind of a leap of faith.
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