12/07/2005

Toy camera purists

Frankly I'm quite amused by the amount of disapproval that I receive from 'toy camera purists' in regards to my liberal use of the Holga Photoshop action. Am I 'cheating' a spontaneous moment that could have been interpreted in so many 'unpredictable' ways by the crappiness of the holga's mechanics?
Maybe so, however to be blunt I have seen alot of mediocre photos that have been taken with a holga/diana and they still look like ordinary snapshots with that gimmicky holga dreaminess added due to the camera.

I have also seen alot of great toy camera photography such as some of the work on Toycamera.com, which is so inspiring and makes me want to embrace the limitations of toy camera photography.

At the end of the day, the skill is with the photographer and not the camera...No camera will save a badly composed snapshot (and that includes many of my own snapshots who have had a couple of slaps of the Holga Photoshop action in the hope that they may be resurrected into some form of art).