Experimental Photography | Self Made Holgaroid

The photographs in this post were created with a camera that I made myself using parts of other cameras and basic tools. I wasn’t exactly sure when I was making if it would actually work. I vased the idea on the Holgaroid, a camera that in esseces is also comprised of two camera parts. The front part being that of the Lomo Holga and the back being taken from a Polaroid camera.

As the one I constructed was made with basic tools it had a few problems. For one it would only focus on objects that were about 30cm [one foot] away from the back of the camera. And it would also not expose the film like it would do normally. These were both caused because the polaroid back wasn’t level to where the film plane was originally on the original Holga model which I started with.

Below I have included seven images from the camera I created. A few of these are blurry so I have given each photograph a brief description. All the photographs were taken with either Fujifilm FP100B or Fujifilm FP100C film and the locations for them vary. Also some of the film was expired which meant that it behaved differently than it should have but it also added to a few of the photos I feel.



First photograph – This shot was taken in trafalgur square. The building that shows a
resemblence to the Parthenon in Greece is actually the church of St. Martin-In-The-Field.
The steps of this church is feature in another blog on this site with some recent portraiture
work that I did. [link]

Second photograph – This shot of my trainers on the south bank of London was the
first photograph that I actually acheived that was in focus and with this I was able to
accurately judge the focusing distance that the camera can do.



Third photograph – This is a portrait of my friend Andrew Murrock standing in
a shop in Bluewater shopping centre in the photograph he is wearing a sling as he
had fractured his elbow the day previous.



Fourth photograph – This is a portrait of my friend Holly Hang.



Fifth photograph – This is a hallway that I had found in central London. This was a
12 seconds exposure and because the film was out of date it affected the developing
process and gave a green tint to the image.



Sixth photograph – This was the first time I had taken the camera out to solely take portrait
photography. This image is comprised of the four best images of the day. The model is my friend
Alicia Moore. Who you may recognise from a previous post on this site. [link]. As with the fifth
image you can see that these shots too were also affected by the age of the shot. Which I felt
added to the overall photograph pretty well.

Portraiture Photography | Azita Mehdinejad

These photographs came about because Azita needed some photographs done and my friend Steve. Put her in touch with me. The day I photographed her was in fact the first day I met her, so we didn’t actually start taking photographs straight away. But instead, we had a sit down and a talk and I was able to gain a fuller understanding as to why the photos were needed. We also went over some ideas and chatted in general. We got on pretty much straight away and this made the whole experience better as it also allowed her to feel more relaxed seeming that we had only just met and she had not had her photograph taken professionally before.

In this blog I have included seven photographs from the photo shoot which were taken in and around different locations in central London.

Portraiture Photography | Alicia Moore

The photographs below are from a recent photo shoot that I did with my friend Alicia. This wasn’t the first time I have photographed Alicia and photographs from the earlier shoots will appear on this blog at a later date.

These photographs were taken in the Brick Lane area of London. This area features a lot of graffiti which led to some very interesting backgrounds in some of the photographs.

This photo session also allowed me to experiment with touching up my photographs in post production. Something that I had been apprehensive to learn because I started my photography with film. So I was used to taking a photograph and that would be that. No further adjustments needed. But I have found that not knowing this hindered me slightly when it came to portraiture so I used this photo session to gain a bit of experience with it and it worked pretty well.

All these photographs were taken digitally and enhance later on a piece of  image editing software. And there are seven photographs in total.

Portraiture Photography | Holly Defroand

Below are a set of photographs that I took of a friend of mine called Holly Defroand. These photographs were mainly taken in the centre of London, UK. And they were produced on both film and digital cameras on different dates.

The first photograph that shows a white border around it was taken with a Polaroid film camera. A Polaroid 600SE, which is in the range of professional Polaroid cameras. The other photographs were taken with a Canon EOS 50D, which is a digital SLR. Overall I am quite glad with how the photographs came out.

All of these photographs were taken with no particular theme in mind. We went up to London and took the photographs as the ideas came to me. Like I said before I’m actually quite glad with the photographs.