We’re very excited to announce that although we’ve been very quiet over the last month or so we’ve been working on a lot of new goodies for you all!
Revolog Texture Film Sample Image
First up we have a whole range of new products coming to the HolgaDirect store starting with this very cool new film being produced by our friends at Revolog.
This week we’re going to look at the Holga 135PC Pinhole Camera. It comes at a good time as only just a few days ago was ‘World Pinhole Day‘! This review is actually written by our guest writer C. Gary Moyer who has been involved with toy and vintage cameras for many years. Gary writes a great blog, ‘Light Sensitive‘ which is well worth a visit for its great articles and images many of which were shot with a Holga.
Digital Holga - HDR - 3 Shot Color
On the back of continued interest in our Digital Holga lenses we still get asked a lot about these products from our customers to the HolgaDirect Store. After our great first article in the Digital Holga How To series which described how to get the best out of your Close Up and Macro lenses we are very happy to present this second article written by Frank McMains. This article describes another technique which Frank has perfected to obtain interesting HDR effects from images taken with a Digital Holga lens (in this case on a Canon DSLR but the technique could be applied to any other digital camera).
The team at HolgaDirect is greatly pleased to announce that the “Give Us Your Best Shot” attracted almost 400 entries showing some of the best Holga photography from all over the world. Without much further ado, here are the six best photographs as chosen by the public and the team at HolgaDirect commented by the photographers themselves who were kind enough to let us know a bit more about their photography and these pictures in particular.
We are happy to report that we had an amazing response to our first ever photography contest. By the end of the submission period (1st March 2012) we had a total of 360 entries into the contest. The quality of the images has blown us away and shown us just what you can achieve with a simple Holga camera or lens.
Now comes the next stage of the contest which allows you to vote for your own favourite photo’s. Just visit the voting page and cast your votes. There are 10 pages of entries so don’t forget to take a look through all of them before deciding which ones will receive your valuable vote.
The voting period will end at midnight EST on the 8th of March 2012 so you’ll have to be quick to make your vote count. Once we have all the votes in we will use these in combination with our own judging criteria to choose the final winners for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
The HolgaDirect Team
Well, we are happy to happy to report that our work is almost complete on redesigning the HolgaDirect Blog!
We really wanted to clean up the look and feel of the Blog and go for a more minimal ‘less is more’ approach. Hopefully we have achieved that and made the site a lot easier on the eye as well as simpler to navigate and find articles. This year we’ll be attempting to put a lot more content on the site with detailed reviews of exciting new products, interviews with all sorts of interesting photographers and much more.
A quick thanks to our web design and development team for doing such an outstanding job!
Anyway, so take a look around and let us know what you think! We appreciate any and all feedback.
The HolgaDirect Team
