Panoramas (A.K.A. Holgaramas)
I'm sure you've all seen beautiful wide panoramic style pictures. The great news is you can create them with your Holga! There are various ways of producing panoramas, but most involve taking a picture then winding on just enough to let the images overlap.
There is a fantastically detailed article on producing panoramas over at ToyCamera.com. So rather than try and replicate that, why not head over and take a peak.
With practice you can get beautifully seamless panoramas, or you can just stick with the uniquely stylish creative overlaps. But remember, when creating panoramas: always go from left to right!
Alternative Technique
Flickr user Matt has come up with an original and inventive way of getting 4 individual panoramas per film. The advantage of this technique is there is a frame border between each one so cutting the negatives for storage is easy. No more slicing up your image to put it in a storage sleeve. Here is the thread text:
"I wanted to get frame borders for some panoramas, so I got some backing paper and figured out the following. It will give you four overlapped composites, made up of 4/3/3/4 frames, respectively (I wanted them mostly even - a little bit of brain work and you could probably figure out a number of other combinations).
It relies on the "frame is coming up" indicators, and I've only ever tried it with Kodak film. If the length of the indicator isn't close for other brands, it may not work (ask for your backing paper back from the lab, and you could check for yourself, or just try it and see).
Shoot the first four frames as normal [with the counter set to 16].
After frame four, skip number 5, but don't go all the way to 6: stop at the first indicator that 6 is coming up (e.g., the 'K' of 'KODAK Film'). Shoot three frames like that (stopping at the first indicator each time). You will pass numbers 6 and 7 and take the last shot just before number 8.
Now advance to number 9. Shoot 9, 10, 11 as normal. After 11, advance past 12 to the first indicator before 13.
Now shoot at the indicator for the next four shots. You will pass numbers 13, 14, 15 and take the last shot just before 16. You can most likely fit in another frame after that, but you'll have to wind to just after 16, and there's no markers at all, so it's a bit of guess-work."
Rotational Panoramas
If you are doing rotational panoramas, you will need to rotate the camera by about 50ยบ for each click. For regular panoramas where you just side step, the amount of steps between pictures varies with how close you are to the subject. Keep experimenting with the technique until you find what works for you.