Senior Portrait

This portrait of an elderly gent was taken with a cheap £12, $20 plastic toy lens made by Holga and attached to my DSLR. Exposed for 1 and 1 third seconds at ISO 800, so it has a gritty, rough quality.

[Walks @ 7]

Grit fits here, this gentleman has a story to tell and with this portrait I would like to hear it.

[Jacquie]

Why the cheapo lens?

[David Robinson]

@jqf Purely to avoid that clean, modern look so typical of today's technologically sophisticated digital cameras. Perhaps it takes one's photography back to photography's own roots and the charm of imperfection. Or perhaps your brother is just being a pretentious @rse. Either way, my tutor at Skills And Learning quite liked it;.