Moving

I've moved  this blog over to substack, which is a newish blogging platform.

https://flaneuronthestreets.substack.com/

You can follow either via their app or a newsletter which is, if you have signed up to, will be sent each time I upload a new blog.

I already have two posts up and another one coming Friday.

Maybe I will see you over there.

George

Street Portraits

I shot this image last year for Holga week. 

Holgas are cheap plastic 120 cameras that can have a lot of vignetting, blury parts to the image and light leaks. It only has one shutter speed, 1/100 and two (if lucky) apertures f8 and f11.

Luckily my Holga doesn't suffer with light leaks and I was really happy how is image turned out.

I would like to explore taking people's portraits more, so this year I'm going to try to capture as many portraits as possible, using the Holga.

I think the images need to be in colour, so I'm going to be shooting Kodak Gold 200 ISO film.

I'm setting myself a target of 25 images within the year, even though we are already nearing the end of January.

Its going to be a scary prospect as portraits are not something I normally shot and asking people will be something I'm quite nervous of doing.