10 free Holga Lightroom presets

It’s Holga-time!

You’ve probably already heard about what Holga is but if you haven’t, I’ll give you a quick brief.
Holga is the name of a Chinese camera that has a history from 1981. It’s a medium format 120 film toy camera known for its low-fidelity aesthetic. Nowadays you can find apps for your mobile phone that tries to copy the same look. It’s been so popular in the last few years that people even buy old toy cameras like this one, just to get the natural old look on film.

You can read more about Holga at Wikipedia

Dustin Leader sent me 10 presets that simulates the look of a Holga camera. Now you can play with them too! Read more

4 free Lightroom Holga presets.

“George” asked me if I knew about a preset that make the photos look like if they came out from a Holga cam (Holga is a toy camera that makes your photos look twisted in a cool way with strange colors and exposure). I didn’t even google it; I just started to play around in Lightroom to make one of my own :-) It ended up with 4 presets. Two of them are a little more discreet and the other two pops out a bit more with “random” placed color spots. The presets are available in two types of vignettes, light and dark… Read more