Use Your Holga CFN Flash To Increase Contrast
May 18th, 2008 by DurkinPosted in Tutorials
If you are the owner of a Holga 120cfn, (Colour flash) then you may be interesting in knowing that your flash can be used to increase contrast in your black and white photographs.
What the flash essentially does, when using black and white film, is to project coloured light in front of the lens, basically acting like a filter. This can be applied to both night and daytime images.
With your CFN, there are a few different colours that you can use. These different colours are produced by placing a gel in front of the flash bulb and it is the knob on the top that controls this feature. Lomography provided this information about the flash:
A little wheel sits around the powerful built-in electronic flash and allows you to choose a red, yellow, or green filter.
So the next time you are out in the daytime and think that that flash is unnessisary, maybe you should think again!
All three colours will help to boost contrast and make your photogaphs that little bit more interesting!
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