For my Holga Film I was really struggling with the fact that nothing came out with a clear focus, I like to be able to have the control over what part of the image going to appear as the main subject. The first roll of film I shot was here on campus and when I developed it, all of the images were overlapping. I was not opposed to the idea of this, but figured there must be a way to stop this from occurring. So when I loaded my second roll of fill I decided to change the extra back part that comes with the camera. When I started shooting this roll I had the idea of shooting bicycles around campus, but I double exposed my first shot and then got rained on, so I finished the remaining of this roll of film at home, I was playing around more with abstracting nature around my house (such as our wood holder, a stone wall, a flower sitting on a windowsill, and vines growing on shed). I shot all of these on the cameras closest zoom setting, but was too close to my subject to get any good detail. Still being unhappy with the results from my first 2 rolls of film, I decided that since I had solved the problem of overlapping that I would shoot a third roll and go back to focusing on bicycles. I read more about how the distance settings on the camera worked and went out and shot this roll in the early morning. I really tried to take my time to decide what part of the bicycle I wanted to be in focus. I feel like I had the most success with my third roll of film, once I really slowed down and planned out what I was shooting. I am not completely in love with the Holga; but I also don't hate it, and I would not hesitate to play around with it some more throughout the semester.
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