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Batch 5: Street stuff. No way to freeze action so just go with the motion blur. Channelling Michael Ackerman here. From @tedforbes photo assignment #15 - shooting with a Holga (or a digital camera set to act like one). I happened on this assignment the week it's due to close so I'm getting as many shots in before the deadline as I can. For this batch I used the Holga 25mm lens with a Panasonic GX9 with the rear screen set to off. No flash. #photoassignments #photoassignments15 #Holga #tedforbes #artofphotography #Nottingham #December #2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrJgx54h4kn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mcsu4vn3kpcq

Batch 5: Street stuff. No way to freeze action so just go with the motion blur. Channelling Michael Ackerman here. From @tedforbes photo assignment #15 - shooting with a Holga (or a digital camera set to act like one). I happened on this assignment the week it's due to close so I'm getting as many shots in before the deadline as I can. For this batch I used the Holga 25mm lens with a Panasonic GX9 with the rear screen set to off. No flash. #photoassignments #photoassignments15 #Holga #tedforbes #artofphotography #Nottingham #December #2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrGaiSgB8oj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lrrodnnx4ew2

Batch 5: Dog. Not sure if I prefer the out of camera original or my usual brutal processing. From @tedforbes photo assignment #15 - shooting with a Holga (or a digital camera set to act like one). I happened on this assignment the week it's due to close so I'm getting as many shots in before the deadline as I can. For this batch I used the Holga 25mm lens with a Panasonic GX9 with the rear screen set to off. No flash. #photoassignments #photoassignments15 #Holga #tedforbes #artofphotography #Nottingham #December #2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrGaUIBh0oq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=erwnqt8itkht

Batch 5: Spotted this car with moss growing on the tail light - by picking my angle to the rear window I managed to get a tree growing out of it. From @tedforbes photo assignment #15 - shooting with a Holga (or a digital camera set to act like one). I happened on this assignment the week it's due to close so I'm getting as many shots in before the deadline as I can. For this batch I used the Holga 25mm lens with a Panasonic GX9 with the rear screen set to off. No flash. #photoassignments #photoassignments15 #Holga #tedforbes #artofphotography #Nottingham #December #2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrGaEoUhR0U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fhc5dwayo34o

Batch 4: finished photo with a couple of alternates (in fact I shot ten to ensure good framing.) This is an example of happy accident - frames 2 and 3 are more what I envisaged but the random element in the process also gave me the wider shot with the glove drifting off the frame which I felt emphasised the "lostness" more. Don't know if I'd have got this shot shooting conventionally. From @tedforbes photo assignment #15 - shooting with a Holga (or a digital camera set to act like one. I happened on this assignment the week it's due to close so I'm getting as many shots in before the deadline as I can. I used an old Olympus E-PL3 with a Holga 25mm plastic lens with fixed f8 aperture, ISO locked to 400 and shutter speed 1/30sec. Flash is a rickety old Vivitar 285 with off-camera sync cord. The LCD was taped over so I had to guess framing. This one's about embracing mistakes. #photoassignments #photoassignments15 #Holga #tedforbes #artofphotography #Nottingham #December #2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrD_MAGBQZr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wbi0psamtcqz

Batch 3 finished shots - this is going from shooting lots of stuff to understand the technique, to shooting subjects with purpose - hence lots of shots of fewer things. I'm really liking the effects I can get shooting this way, but shooting blind is starting to drive me nuts. I think maybe I need to make a basic viewfinder out of cardboard so I'm not shooting totally blind all the time. #photoassignments #photoassignments15 #Holga #tedforbes #artofphotography #Nottingham #December #2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrD9rF1htcJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10sntzz9gcerc

Batch 3 (post 2 of 2): Straight out of camera shots from @tedforbes photo assignment #15 - shooting with a Holga (or a digital camera set to act like one). More flash shots. The flash is old and under-powered so I'm shooting about two stops over the declared aperture value and it's still coming out a bit dark. The lens seems to render mid-tones darker than life which makes it tricky to know if I'm underexposing, but it can make for some cool effects if you find a light subject against a mid-toned background. You'll see repetition in this batch as I start shooting subjects systematically and bracketing for framing. I happened on this assignment the week it's due to close so I'm getting as many shots in before the deadline as I can. I used an old Olympus E-PL3 with a Holga 25mm plastic lens with fixed f8 aperture, ISO locked to 400 and shutter speed 1/30sec. Flash is a rickety old Vivitar 285 with off-camera sync cord. The LCD was taped over so I had to guess framing. This one's about embracing mistakes so I'm posting everything. #photoassignments #photoassignments15 #Holga #tedforbes #artofphotography #Nottingham #December #2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrD8DTShWTQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1azq7aw6cgtl7

Batch 2 rescue-able shots for @tedforbes photo assignment #15 - shooting with a Holga (or a digital camera set to act like one). I used an old Olympus E-PL3 with a Holga 25mm plastic lens with fixed f8 aperture, ISO locked to 400 and shutter speed 1/30sec. The LCD was taped over so I had to guess framing. This one's about embracing mistakes so I'm posting everything. #photoassignments #photoassignments15 #Holga #tedforbes #artofphotography #Nottingham #December #2018 #aop https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq_kXsEB5A1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zshi8w1l5zcx