View your photos larger, then click Edit Photo to go to Picnik. Under the Create/Effects tab, you’ll find this filter called Holga-ish. It turns your photo a contrasty black and white.
Photo as Original and with Picnik's Holga-ish Filter
But what is Holga? The ? button tells me: “Plastic cam quality without the plastic cam! Holga-ish mimics the wondrous Holga camera when using the sublime combination of black and white film and a red filter.”
Turns out, it’s a flawed 120mm toy camera from the 80s that makes kind of artsy vignetted photos, has a bit of a cult following today and also has caught on in the digital world too, with the use of lenses and also applied filters, in Photoshop and, here in Picnik.
Holga Sweethearts
For truer Holga look, I should have cropped the photo square first, then applied the filter. But with the text (font face is “Bleeding Cowboys”) (Yikes), and some sticker hearts…I think it came our pretty good!
Some Holga sites..galleries, guides, etc.
http://www.davidniles.com/holga/gallery.html
http://www.theverb.com/holga/camera_links.htm
http://www.holgablog.com/2009/04/09/the-massive-guide-to-all-holga-cameras/
