two more from my last roll. if you’re wondering why the hell they’re so grainy, click here.
while i was going through the photos from this roll, these two instantly clicked in my mind because of their similar compositions. the mosque is the blue mosque and the church is monastery of saint george of the mangana.
they were taken with a holga 135bc and ilford 200 asa dia film.
this is my friend guy being somewhat depressed at my request at the institut français de turquie gallery. it is very underexposed and grainy but i still like it.
it was taken with a holga 135bc and kodak 400 asa film.
another cat shot from my first holga 135bc roll. love their surprised expressions. oh, they are sitting on the top of a car, yes. typical cat behavior.
and the obligatory cat shot of this roll :)
me and a couple of friends came across these little ones in the café of institut français de turquie. they were really lucky because they (and their mother) were the only cats around so they had all the customers’ attention to themselves. and they ate a good portion of my friends’ lunch, so :)
the photo was taken with a holga 135bc and kodak 400 asa film.
this is definitely my favorite of the last roll.
it was taken with a holga 135bc and kodak 400 asa film. the model is my lovely friend şima, as usual :)
it actually was intended to be a portrait but it turned out cropped, which made it perfect in my opinion. this is the beauty of holga (and analog to some extent), even the mistakes you make add something to the composition that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
i don’t know if i’ve written about this before but i have a new toy camera! it’s a red holga 135bc and i’m loving the results i’m getting with it so far! i got my first roll developed very recently.
this was taken on istiklal street, it’s one of those touristic street vendors that sell.. well touristic stuff. these blue beads, “nazar boncugu” as we call them, are one of the most popular touristic items here in turkey. though it’s associated with islamic superstition, it’s actually descended from shamanism, which is believed to have been anatolian turks’ religion before they converted to islam. the bead’s also called the “evil eye” which is basically an evil energy originating from one’s eye/gaze that is hurtful. these beads are worn as a protection from it, they are believed to reflect the evil energy and protect you.
i like the trademark holga look on this one, especially the vignetting.
i think i’m really starting to love my smena symbol. it definitely takes some time to get used to but once you do, it takes such nicely exposed photos, like this one.
this one was taken around istanbul university’s social sciences faculty with an expired fuji film. the architecture in that area is so lovely that when this little passage caught my eye i couldn’t resist. i’d definitely recommend anyone planning to visit istanbul to take some time and explore beyazıt beyond the usual touristic spots. especially if you’re into photography and looking for places, buildings with a historical feeling to them to shoot.
most of the time, i try to create what i want to take a photo of (as in, i make friends pose for me in mostly daily settings, which requires zero effort), and sometimes opportunities like this one present itself. it is very very rare and again requires even less effort, but it’s much more rewarding, for me at least, because it’s spontaneous, “real”, and is what it is, just because, well, it is the way it is. and i come across more and more people who admire photos like this over the first category, regard it as a skill of the photographer to capture it, to be there at the right moment. wonder why.
anyway, it was taken last april on my way to van gogh live exhibition. the man was only napping, though it looks like a very uncomfortable position to nap in, but hey, i’m not complaining :) it was again taken with a smena symbol and expired fuji 100 asa film.
like this a lot. actually like any photo that captures simple moments like this one.
it is from the same roll with this one and it’s hella grainy because of the expired film (i think it’s over eight years old! my ex-boss who knew i was into analog gave a bunch of them to me). it was taken this april at julius meinl, this cozy coffee place in karaköy with a smena symbol.
another one from my latest rolls, this time in color.
it was taken at the backyard of my building with a smena symbol and expired fuji 100 asa film. i have a stange liking to it, probably because of the weird white area around the tree branches that comes out to play quite often. it’s probably one of the perks of smena, though i can’t seem to pinpoint when it happens (which f-stop or exposure etc).
it was taken last april btw.
