I celebrated the anniversary of the Birth of America this year on the streets of South Beach’s Ocean Avenue. Those of us that live in South Beach are rarely found on Ocean Avenue it was nice to spend an evening in the shoes of the tourists.
The blurring in these images are from long exposures (the camera is taking the picture for several seconds).
Courtesy of my friend Cameron Davidson I have acquired a Holga lens in a Canon Lens mount (he sent it to me in exchange for the Community Coalition for Haiti which he supports).
Holga is a historical camera which was originally made to be incredibly inexpensive. Many photographers (especially those who began photography before the ultra-clean days of digital) are endeared by the Holga’s soft dreamy appearance.
Canon mount Holga lenses are available from HolgaMods.com.
Because the Canon sensor (it’s “film”) is physically smaller than the medium format film for which the Holga was originally designed the images do not exhibit the characteristic strong vignetting.
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This post is the culmination of six months worth of research, experimentation, and refinement into high-magnification macro photography. Taking pictures of extremely small objects with extremely high resolution systems is an incredibly technical endeavor with great challenges and even greater rewards.
I’ll be posting an article for my readers interested in the nitty-gritty of the techniques and equipment used for this work.
Tara and Sean’s wedding was a true pleasure to be a part of.
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