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Creative Masking For Your Holga Camera

July 4th, 2008 by Durkin
Posted in Modification

In this post you can learn about masking the interior of your Holga in order to add interesting elements to your photographs.

I have decided to go for the torn edges look in my mask.

To do this to your own holga all you need is tape, card and scissors.

1. Take out the normal plastic mask that comes with your Holga camera.

2. Cut out a square piece of card that fits around the center square in your Holga perfectly. (see images below)

3. Next think of what border you would like on your images. Make it as scruffy or defined as you like.

4. Use tape on either side of the mask to stick it down. Make sure is secure and bam! Your ready to use it.

Here are the pictures of mine:

interior holga mask

interior holga mask

My images should come out something like this:

interior mask results

Results will be posted soon!

If you have any questions or comments, like usual, leave a comment below and I will gladly try and answer them!





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2 Responses so far

  1. keyj on Oct 15, 2008

    Dude, that’s awesome!
    does it matter what color/kind of paper you use? Dark absorbs, light reflects…??? keep it up

  2. Durkin on Oct 16, 2008

    I guess its all about experimenting, but I can imagine that refelctive materials will have your light bouncing around all over the place and either make for some interesting effects, or ruin your pictures :)

    Good luck!

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