São Paulo is 459 years old today

Today São Paulo city celebrates its anniversary, I've selected some of my favorite images I've taken with my beloved Holga Camera to do my very first post of 2013...

Svema Film

I have a couple of expired Svema film I've been given few years ago when trading a camera and I decided to use one of them with my Holga, the film is slow speed (64ISO) and It was made in the former USSR .

Since I don't have much control over the Holga camera I had to chose a bright sunny day to photograph. The result however showed that the picture could have been easily taken at nigth! 

These are the only two frames I could scan from the entire roll.

Processed with Rodinal 1:100 1 hour stand development.

If you ever come across with one of those I recommend having a sellotape in you bag. Once you've finished with the film there's no tape to seal the roll (not on these at least...), I was lucky I took the film out of the camera at home...

Holga Camera Pictures

I've already started processing some films I took after spending a few weeks on holidays in Brazil. I used a few cameras and as usual the Holga pictures came out with some weird results, this shot in particular got my attention... I really like the way the buildings are "bending" at the top left corner. Fuji Across 100 ISO Processed with Rodinal 1:100 1Hour Stand Development.

 

Copan Building - Sao Paulo - Holga Camera

The Copan Building it's in the heart of Sao Paulo city in Brazil and it was design by the architect Oscar Niemeyer.

Woolworths - Holga Camera

Edinburgh - Holga Camera