Hey. These days are very long and i am more or less busy all the time. I’m currently in Munich for an internship as assistant of photographer Olaf Unverzart. Also i work on the side and i try to shoot a lot. Small commissions and personal projects. Got a 6×6 again, a Yashica Mat 124G since its cheaper than the Rolleiflex. I am also in need fot a Ricoh GR since im doing kind of a travel log of my everyday route Nuremberg<->Munich. Let me know if you know something please.
Here are some pictures from the last months, all film this time but all kinds of formats and film types. For some rolls of Arista/TX i tried out a diy monobath developer which i like a lot. Very contrasty and rich negatives, although not perfect for archiving i think. Anyway, have fun with this entry.
Schlagwort: Ohm
Obstsalate
Pragmatism
Rekorde der Planeten
Hey everyone, after two months, here is a little update.
School: Semester 4 is over by now, projects are graded and books printed. For the upcoming semester i am looking for an internship or assistance for 6+ months. I already got in touch with some great photographers, we’ll see where i will end up spending the winter season.
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02/2015: Red chairs
I haven’t had much time for the blog lately, so this post was queuing for quite a while now, several months actually. In case you notice something weird in some frames, thats actual snow, which dates the image back to last winter. I’m currently right in the middles of semester 4 of Design study and as always working on several projects at the same time. Quick overview: New CI for „Türkisch-Deutsches Filmfestival Nürnberg“ in typo class, a book about fonts in graphic class and several small photo projects to topics such as „home“ and „rituals“ for photo class.
Some of the photo projects will soon be on the website which im currently updating with new images. Also im working on several portfolios for application stuff. This post also contains some of these soon to be published works, as well as some commission stuff and of course lots of private stuff and uni stuff. Since there are some hundreds of pics waiting for the next post, its about time this on gets released, so have fun scrolling through some pics.
Good morning.
sad days.
At the museum.
Im not a friend of exploiting the homeless or poor but i like to analyse public life in its entirety. Notice all those people rushing to work or doing shopping or getting home to their loved ones while this homeless man is sleeping on the ground. This is a very common scene in every big city i guess, still sad.
Taking a break.
07/2014: Balloons & Coffee
Constantly shooting all kinds of stuff. Here are some more frames from Summer 2014. And i also found another great piece of music for this post, the new David Guetta single. lol.
Cruisin around the Dutzendteich.
On the menue: Nothing.
Returning empty beer cartons.
August Critical Mass Nürnberg.
Critical Mass passing our street. The Hexar was somewhat irritated by the fly screens.
In a park. An interview of some poetry slam dude.
Got something for me?
Printing some stuff at uni + shooting some Trix in the Leica M6 (ID-11 since i ran out of Xtol)
Graduation exhibition. Some of us younger students did checkout and sold tickets and exhib catalogues.
05/2014: Two Lovers
The last weeks have really been exhausting, but in a good way. Since we’re doing real projects in classes instead of taking exams or tests, the semester ends with a big bang and everybody is hasting through the labs and hallways on their way to finish all kinds of exhibition stuff, portfolios, posters, web pages, essays, darkroom prints, movies or installations. People are stressed because of tight schedules, frustrated because of problems with computers, printers, programs, enlargers and all kinds of other stuff and at the same time happy because the semester is almost done and the summer season is ahead of us. I will post more stuff i did in photo class and typo class in the next blog for i’m not done with my portfolio yet. So here are some pictures covering the past months from mid-semester until now.
In typography class.
In the studio, working on some large format table top stuff. The whole process is sooo daaamn slow, especially when you’re used to shoot rangefinders, but the quality you get of those huge 4×5 negs is just worth it.
It was that time of year again. Makes a nice composition.
In a bar. 1600 ISO at 2.8, i think about 1/8th. So yeah, i decided to get a Nokton again, i just need those two more stops.
OstAnders festival at Studio Eins. Some of us showed some (digtal) prints or illustrations.
Anselm approving the setup.
Lonely beer bottle.
At Neues Museum. „Unschärfe“ (=blur) was an installation inside and outside the museum. I also took a photo of the installation object, a huge room made out of steel grids and used it for a dyptichon for our human rights topic.
This dyptich i shot for the human rights topic. It is in fact a small piece of colour negative film, regularily exposed with a small pinhole camera i made from a 35mm film can (black one of course). The top part is actually shote inside the „Unschärfe“ construction.
Some plants behind frosted glass. Looks haunting somehow but interesting at the same time. So i took a frame at 1/15th or so.
Silly subway stuff.
People reading.
Another Olympus XA artwork. It seems to have some trouble transporting the film for the first 1-3 frames. Looks funny though.
Kids drawing. Thats some HP5+ Stephan lent me btw since i ran out of trix.
Cig break.
Another election. Discussing who to vote for. Pathetic.
The smaller the camera, the harder the focusing.
They built a wall around a tree, how nice is that.
Jonas and his digital pinhole cam. What a cheater 😀
Guess what, election. This time at the faculty. Some of us volunteered as election workers.
Back in photo class. We listened to some lecture about great photographers. Tanja all of a sudden pulled out a blank loaf of bread and a knife and was like „whos hungry?“ and started cutting some slices. What a moment!
Olga and i went to the yearly „mobility flea market“ to get a bike for her.
Printed this one.
Finally, a friend for my old bike.
Saturday morning at uni, Fachschaft breakfast time. Andi also brought some board games for the students to play in the community room. Its actually like a kindergarden but with typography and stuff…
Beppo and Basti, newly elected leaders of the student council.
Oh noes!
Kornmarkt blues.
I wonder who arranged this and why.
Improvisation.
Hanging out after class. Kentmere 100 in Rodinal (Hexar AF).
Smooth light that evening. Shot from our bedroom window.
What a statement! And such nice structures too.
waste removal coming through!
Two lovers.
Buddy for sale.
I thought that was a funny moment.
Sometimes i like to take a picture that is nothing special but has a single small detail that makes it less boring.
More Altstadtflohmarkt impressions. Stephan bought this very old portrait. The technical quality of this little piece was just impressive.
Some happy people spreading the joy.
Basti, Stephans roommate.
Inside the comic book store.
Back to good old Trix+Xtol. Hanging out at uni, David enjoying his summertime coffee.
A poster at the academy of fine arts. Susi and i were there for a lecture about icons in photography.
Taking portraits.
Benno, shot with the M2 + Xsync-connected lighting.
Litte Mike discovered his hand.
Julian
Illustration exhibition of two great graduation works at Neues Museum. Prof Ackermann holding the opening speech.
Great use of space and arrangement of exhib pieces.
We went to Kulturgarten later for a beer. Sometimes i does not matter how good you try to hide, you just fail.
Basti in busy work mode.
That night there was a big storm outside and we watched from the window. I thought why not capture a lightning strike on film, should be bright enought to illuminate the scene. The first frame came out completely dark because i missed. This is the second try. 1/8th of a second at 1.4.
Shooting some footage for Cast class at Idas and Sibylles place.
Kafka, who was our actor. Killer dude.
Thank god the final scene takes place in a Biergarten!
Goin‘ fishin‘.
More family time in my uncles garden.
Looking up.
Since i have left some rolls of TMY (= TMax 400), i shot one for fun. This is shot from the balcony, looking down in the hidden garden.
A heart-shaped cake for Günter.
Best buds?
Shitting pigeons. Already printed this one. Well, Tmax definitely has its advantages. A very modern look and just non-existent grain. I still prefer the Trix‘ character though.
At the bus station. Shitty weather.
Some lines
Getting ready for Rock im Park.
Machines blocking the way for cyclists.
The other day, Olga got sick.
Back in the lab! Its Fuji Acros time! Leica M6 and Nokton.
Another christian-ish pic of Christian.
Franzi and her Pentax ME.
Tanja jumping in the frame.
Some place at the border of Nürnberg. People running up the hill.
People fishing.
Some frames from the Volksfest in spring.
Especially when shot in bright sunlight, Acros is just superb!
More trees for Nürnberg.
Duzy hurt his leg.
A man enjoying the sun, view from the lab in the little yard.
Thanks, i think i get it now!
Walking around, taking some pictures.
At another market, women hanging up some baby stuff.
What a lovely flag.
We enjoyed some of the warm days at Naturgartenbad, which is just a great place to relax and spend the whole day at. Shot some Delta 100 too.
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Edited version.
Untouched raw version from the LS-40 (=Nikon Coolscan IV) + Vuescan. Delta 100 is just good stuff. And seems like it loves HC-110 for development. Oh yeah, after using a dedicated film scanner for some time now, i have this hint for you: If youre struggeling with the quality of your scans, throw your flatbed in the trash (talking 35mm here) and get a real scanner. If your scans are still no good, your process most likely sucks. Check every step, like EVERY step: Camera working properly? Film stored correctly? Chemicals fresh? Dev process going well? How about your temps? Using wetting agent? Please please dont get disencouraged by all this stuff. But theres just some parameters that you should take care of if you want good quality (technical quality) negatives. However, having fun is still no. 1 on the list of course!
More hanging out. Olga looking at my grandpas sketchbook from the 40s and 50s. He made the last sketches in this in 2006 which is kinda cool.
We spent the next day at Tanjas parents‘ house she was keeping while they were on vacation. What an awesome place with all kinds of trees, bushes and beds.
View from the greenhouse on the beds.
Mandy, the dog, was exhausted because of the sunny weather. Shes 18.
Another frame for the „Metering-on-my-hand“ series.
Its beautiful because its in b/w.
We also took some portraits for photoclass with the 500CM. For the human rights semester topic, we had to abuse a roll of FP4+ 120 film negatives mechanically after development. I decided to cut up some portraits and mix the parts back togtheer into different portrait-like close-ups. I’ll do a scan of the print to show it in the next post probably.
Before destroying the negs i made sure to do a proper scan of every portait, just in case…
We went to the graveyard later.
So i worked on my project for the typography exhibition and cut some posters and stuff. Since i couldnt find a proper mat to cut on, i just grabbed a random magazine and cut on its back. Later i realised it was some LFI issue. Sorry guys.
The next day, i decided to take some photographs of the Rock im Park aftermath after work. The weather was perfect for Delta and i found some beautiful stills…
The whole area was of course cleaned some hours later, but still.
Some guys deinstalling some beams.
Beer can art.
I wonder what party was going on here a few days ago.
The pure joy of nature. Already did a print. Some weeks ago, i bought some packs of very old (30+ years) Tetenal Speed paper from a former photographer. Very nice guy. The paper is quite old and has gotten about 1-2 grades smoother (that makes a grad 4 back then a grad 2-3 today and so on), but all packs were still sealed and stored correctly. Turns out these old packs of Tetenal (24x30cm and 30x40cm) still work nearly perfectly. And also, now that i finally do darkroom prints, it turns out that my negs are already pretty solid for printing, which is great. For example, the print i did of the above frame on some grad 3 speed paper turned out almost exactly like the web version, lookwise. Deep blacks and rich highlights, though theres a lot more shadow detail in the print than in the scan. So im glad that all the time i intuitively edited my scans to a print-ish look, and not to something completely different. Sure, dodging and burning, multigrade and fiber is still to come, but for now i’m perfectly happy with what im getting out of my negatives.
On top
Some strange people lurking around, looking for empty bottles and all kinds of stuff, gathering all kinds of crap like rats. Kinda interesting.
More people enjoying the green fields.
Some people looking for bottles on the left side, some weird dude taking a sunbath right in the middle of all this crap on the right side. Man do i love people.
Ok, next weekend. Visiting Olgas family again. (Back to Trix)
Happy grandparents.
Behind the scene.
Back to work.The Designers Night, a huge exhib at campus, was about to begin the next day. The team did some final installation work.
We also rent some oldschool couches and armchairs to set up a 70s style „chillout zone“. I wish we couldve kept these forever! Damn fire regulations.
Chef 1 and Chef 2.
The girls working on their exhibition stuff + Anselm on framing stuff.
Who would not want to move in here right away?
The WM was about to start.
Designers Night 7 exhib opening.
Beppo, head of team DN7 aka. space design class holding his opening speech.
Benno with a print from Lenny’s type/print experiment.
Back home, we invited Olgas family to our (not so) new place to have a nice barbecue together.
Olgas dad took some shots too!
I always find it hard to meter inside tents or bright rooms or such, it is way brighter than the meter says and i often end up with very dense because 1-2 steps overexposed negs. These could be „restored“ pretty good using curves in Lightroom (because trix is killer!) but the overall tonality suffers a lot, of course.
The next day, we went for walk outside the city.
What an impressive secluded place. I like to come here every now and then, just the wander around and clear my head.
Leftover asparagus.
Neighbours keepin it classy. Shooting some TMax 400 again.
„Funny“ postcards. Reminds me that theres actually „designers“ that „design“ this kind of stuff.
Working on our group presentation for idea development class. Michi got himself a nice Rollei 35 from ebay for 25€. What a sweet little thing with a mighty little lens.
Lilit and Beppo, doing nothing.
Curious tourists.
More presentation work. Man skyping with his daughter? (i guess) in the back.
Wasting more frames.
Whörd subay station, Beautiful light due to some glass construction on top.
Basti the thinker. So, nokton wide-open. Bokeh: Depends. Looks disturbing in one shot (above) and perfectly even in the next (below). Sharpness: Pretty good imo.
Somebody got a nice present.
Walked around later that day. Not the best weather, but i felt like just shooting some frames.
A strange lot of all kind of poles.
And some random geometry. Good night!
04/2014: Clouds under a bridge
Some new and not so new stories because i just started developing C-41 again. Lots of uni stuff, exhibs, festivals, excursions and of course photo class stuff going on. Some personal frames in between too. Im shooting a lot lately and i wouldnt wanna miss it. Not as much street as i would like to though, but that’ll change soon.
Heres what happens if youre shooting with several cameras: Your chronological order will be pretty much fucked up. We ordered some film and paper for the photoclass and also two Tetenal C-41 Kits. So i started developing color negative film again in the lab at uni. Here are some older frames from around the start of 2nd semester.
So it turned out that nobody had done some manual small tank development in the lab for years. Usually, large tanks are used wich are permanently installed and connected to fresh water. Very comfortable but not very much fun if you ask me. Plus they only hold bw chemicals. Time to do some C-41! So when we turned on the water we got several liters of yellowish-dirty water. After the water turned clear or what we thought looked clear again, we started filling some tanks to pre-heat the chemicals and the small tank. However a water temp of about 40°C was wayyy to optimistic since the water had been running for about 10mins already and the boiler tank was pretty empty. So we decided to dev at 30°C. After the final rinse the film looked pretty bad, probably because of dirty water, non-working fixer because of low temp or whatever. After throwing it in the fixer again for about 5 minutes and washing again we put the roll in the dryer for another 10mins and everything was fine. The first frames have a weird blueish (so orange-brown on the neg) teint along the top side (see above) but overall, the film looks pretty good. However, i do not recommend to improvise with the use of your chemicals the way we did, except you really need to. Things can get really inconsistent and i guess we were just lucky this time.
Evening sun.
Nice colors at my way to work. Ektar with mad saturation of course (In the Hexar AF).
View out of our kitchen window at night.
Some color frames from the open day / portfolio presentation day. We used all the tables of this class room for the exhibition.
Left: My work, right: Stephan mounting his work.
Very nicely captured is what i thought before i realized that the snack box person on the right walking into the frame is me, so it must have been Stephan who took that shot.
Hexar in my hands again. Notice the kick-ass drying marks from the dirty lab water. Im pretty confident though that the more often we use it from now on, the better the water will become, once all that old lime and rust and shit is washed out.
Looking exited.
Ektar kicking that spring time right in your face. This blossom actually lasts only for a couple of days so when i passed by the scene on my bike i thought why not stop and take a boring picture?
Sandra with pink hair.
Some barbecue color frames.
Back to Tri-X. Scenes like these make me smile.
Nice BW Fuhrpark BMW.
Kids checking out a mag.
Simon and his shirt #3.
Olga waving me over. We visited a lecture about Foodsharing with Raphael Fellmer at the Bildungszentrum.
Nice backyard.
Saturday photo class. Elmas waiting while we tried several light settings.
Once the Sinar was set up properly, we metered the scene.
Stephan metering.
We shot some Polaroids and several sheets of FP4. Loading those backs was damn tricky since nobody except Stephan had done it before (including me, what a shame).
The next day, Andi & Irina and little Mike came for a visit.
One for Stephan.
Btw i shot those with the Jupiter-12. Decent image quality for a 50€ lens huh?
For a walk around the block. Since Andi and Irina will have _a lot_ of beautiful digital shots of Mike, i think it would be nice for them to have some classic b/w frames too, right?
In the studio. Mik did a shooting and i assisted and took some snaps on the side.
Connected the Hexar to the big light screens here. Works perfectly, in case youre planning to do a shooting with lights and flashes and stuff with your Hexar AF 🙂
Time for some portraits.
Bernd in early friday morning class.
By the time im writing these captions Nuremberg already has been relegated down to second league. Lol
I wonder what being a father is like.
Visiting Basti and Beppo. What a classy bathroom!
Still working on our first „yearbook“ from first semester. We’ll probably print about 25 books.
Benno talking about a photograph he took for photoclass.
Elmas with glasses.
Visiting an exhibition with design history class. How many pairs can you spot?
Mik taking some miniature frames with his miniature cam. Its not a real camera actually but it makes shutter noises and flashes a little light.
We checked out a store that sells some old cameras. Poor collection, but thats Nürnberg. The small Minox 35 was kinda overpriced.
Since i had a flat tire, Mik and i walked through the city to the nearest bike shop and to his place to fix my bike.
Mik’s sweet Nikon with a broken shutter :/
Fixing my tire.
At the Ohmrolle Spring Collection 2014, an annual film festival where design students show their work to the public, semester 1 (30 sec commercial that we did) to 7 (huge impressive graduation works). The night was hosted by the Cinecitta movie theater which provided its 3 largest halls for the event. Jonas getting ready with a beer.
This was about 30mins before the beginning. Speeches and so were all held in hall #1 with livestreams to #2 and #3 reaching a total of about 1000+ people in the audience.
Basti and Sandra.
Elmas and me.
Tension rising right before the start.
People convinced me to take that shot. This is while our small group did a little thank speech after our movie was shown. I was pretty insecure whether to take a shot right in the face of a thousand people but im glad i did, though its not a masterpiece. It is more about the spirit and the will to document an unique moment. So in moments like these, you just ask yourself, are you or are you not a photographer? And then you just do it.
Exhib
„Puzzling images“
Hanging out at Julians place on a friday night. Anselm mixing white russian.
Roommate of Julian who got pretty wasted after a while.
Julian
Cheers!
Finishing the roll whith some attic stills. Damn good afternoon light. Should be perfect for some portraits like Marc does them.
Switching to kentmere 100 + rodinal in the M6. Sometimes the line between documenting and exposing starts fading, so it is the intention that becomes more important i think.
Hanging out after class.
Synchronized cig-lighting.
Curious ducks.
Cordula
They came so close we almost could pet them.
What on the menue?
Kitchen dev station.
Olga looking beautiful.
Faculty trip to some exhibitons in Baden-Baden. Started giving the k100 about 1 stop more light here, it seems to appreciate it.
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Prof. Schaden in front of the Kunsthalle, talking about the exhibition.
Benno taking frames while smoking a cig like a pro 🙂
Inside the foyer.
The exhibition Room Service is about art/artists in hotels and hotels per se as pieces of art.
So the exhib was inside the actual floorways and rooms of several hotels which was an interesting concept. Even more interesing though was the fact that while we had a look at the images and installations, the hotel staff kept cleaning rooms and attending their everyday business so at some point exhibition and reality started mixing.
Oh yeah and i also took a self in the bathroom.
After the exhibition, exploring the city.
Weve never been to Baden-Baden before. Turns out the city and its people are incredibly wealthy and the cityscape really consists of only parks, gardens, museums and luxurient mansions with a touch of France or Italy or whatever.
We ran into David who in the meantime checked out some stores to buy some post cards. Also, i ran out of film but found a DM drug store and bought a roll of new APX 100 (3,45€, so pretty cheap).
According to Lenny, Mik and Simona, this could become a new series. For a stranger, this looks pretty dumb since i meter on my hand with the M6 most of the time, so why not take advantage of it?
Making it a day.
I have to say, the APX looks pretty good here.
Inside the museum for the JR exhib. People waiting in line to get their portait taken and printed on a huge poster (see below). Little girl watching whats going on.
Taking home the portrait.
So we had a beer on a bench across the street and just enjoyed the weather and i took some quick pictures.
A 100% crop. Funny that even the baby noticed us. She smiled and waved right after the shot, the day was just too nice to not be in a good mood.
Taxi, Baden-Baden style.
On the bus, going back home. Some people couldn’t decide where to sit so our driver got pissed and started grumping. I guess its not his fault, he also has to stick to time schedules and orders.
A proper reaction.
The last sunrays.
Back home, at Steffis new place.
New York, London, Nürnberg, Hongkong. Seems legit.
Some…thing.
Some more Ektar. Hexar because its pretty decent for a bike ride.
Early morning, Neli in front of the lab.
So on day the mailman brought me the big package we ordered for photoclass, so this is nothing but a proof.
Films, sleeves, some C-41 chems and some multigrade paper. Yep, thats about 800€. Doesnt look that much actually.
What a morning!
Weekend in Neustadt with Olgas parents. Time for some fuji acros. Olga taking a family portrait. Focusing with a rangefinder is not that easy when you first try it. Hair on neg for sharpness scale.
The kind of portrait i prefer.
Ok lets make some Pelmeni! First, make some dough with flour, water, salt and stuff.
Let it rest, then knead and stretch it. Cut out some little circles with a mug or so.
Fill with meat (or vegetables or whatever you like) and close the edges.
Thats how it should look like before cooking. Boil for several minutes in broth. Youre done.
Enjoy!
On the streets again.
At a big anti-war demonstration.
A man taking some notes and sketches of the scene.
Its pretty simple actually.
Mother and son.
Mother and daughter.
Sleepy kid with family vs. sleeping homeless men. Makes me think. The topic for this semesters photo class is „human rights“ btw. Thats all for now.
02/2014: On the move on the spot
Here are some new frames. Still almost all 35mm. Since i’ve been busy with uni stuff, work and also moving to a new place, i did not feel much like taking well-composed mf shots, but rather like documenting all kinds of things quick and dirty with the rangefinder family.
Christmas 2013
A bird house for my mothers garden.
Christmas weather.
New years.
I shot some C-41 again with the Hexar. This is from a roll of Porst Color X 200 which is actually re-labeled Fuji 200 or something.
Since i still had some C-41 chemicals left, i developed some rolls in the kitchen. The Tetenal Kit was first opened in July 2012 which means it is about 18 months! old (not stored cold also). Strong orange mask on the negatives but pretty decent results over all.
Film tools & techniques class.
I accidentally realeased the shutter here while i went for a walk.
New Leica M6. Already sold the Rolleiflex.
My old kitchen before moving.
Some ducks crossing at my way to uni. Fuji Pro400h in the great great Olympus XA.
Max and Stephan.
X marks the spot.
Currently my preferred way of transportation.
Aboves schools „parking lots“.
A project we had to do during the semester, „typography and space“. I documented my work mainly with the 5D but also took some frames with the Hexar.
Somewhere in Fürth. 4 shots from the Fuji GSW690III. Again the ancient Tetenal Kit which i developed a bunch of films with before i finally disposed it.
Railroad scrap.
Archways of the Dokumentationszentrum.
The weather pretty much sucked for a couple of weeks and since we did not go skiing or hiking or something this season, there was not much to do these days. Most uni projects came to and end and so i just kept shooting random stuff. M6, trix @ 1600, HC-110 B.
Sorting some books.
Man sleeping in a photo booth.
For a walk in Neustadt.
Beautyful heavy clouds over the plains outside the city. Didnt expect this one to look so nice in 1600 ISO.
We passed some small nearby town. Town of cats apparently, theres another one right in the back, hardly visible. Quite tricky to frame this one since every time i took a few steps back the cat would start running at me for more cuddles.
In the subway.
In case you need some new tumblrs to follow.
My new sketchbook. Thanks to whoever made this, i love it.
or is it?
A random romatic scene.
Simona, a fellow student, had an exhibition at Studio eins. Some of us met to check out her great illustrations and to hang out.
Smooth beats, too.
Simona and Stephan.
Back in the underground.
I stopped on my way to class for taking this frame. It was a very foggy morning.
In the facultys little cinema room.
We recorded some footage for our podcast. Max wrote down his text he had to recite with a bavarian accent.
Snack time.
The guys from advanced semesters space & event design class were redesigning our common room and some of us new students joined the party to help grinding chairs, painting walls and arranging euro-pallets.
Mc-D stop.
Course selection D-Day.
David in front of one of our exhibition rooms.
Two music nerds.
For graphic design class, our task for the semester was to design a fictional or real corporate identity including a letterhead, an envelope and a business card. Here we exhibited and discussed our work.
Simona and Tanja.
Time flies, the first semester was nearly over and the next design applicants came to complete their qualifying exams. Most of us were also there for doing catering and supporting the new soon-to-be students and for getting to know some new faces.
Michi examining Julians camera. I excited to see some shots!
It was a great, relaxed day. Well, at least for us 🙂
Cofee break.
Tanjas motto.
Another exhibition. Illustration class „Klasse Fleck“ of the academy of fine arts.
Stunning work.
Helena and Sebastian.
Olga and i decided to move in together. So after looking for places for several weeks we found a very nice apartment near my old place. Moving day, we had lots of helping hands like Stephan and Anselm. Shot a roll of trix with the M6 because, you know…
Olgas dad and cousin installed the kitchen.
The guest room.
In my old apartment, disposing some stuff and used chemicals.
Thats 5 years of smoking.
I’ve been using HC-110 as my main developer for about a year now. I cant help it but to be honest i do not like it that much. Especially for pushing. It gives me very contrasty negatives with very little shadow or highlight detail. That might be due to its relatively upswept curve or due to my developing and scanning habits or probably both.I tried different temps and different steps in scanning and post but i was not really satisfied. I began thinking, maybe it is just a hardware/software thing that came with my switch from the Canoscan + Silverfast to the Coolscan + Vuescan. I happened to get a very cheap pack of Xtol and developed this first roll of Kodak Tri-x pushed to 1600. The negatives came out exactly how i remembered and loved them last year. So for now, Xtol is on the table again! I will try HC-110 with slower speed films such as Kentmere 100 and Fuji Acros. I guess it’s all a matter of taste, but for me, nothing beats Tri-X with Xtol. Oh yeah, this is at the facultys annual exhibition of the graduates work. Leica M2 with the C-Biogon, trix +2 in good ol Xtol.
Cool arrangement and some great photographs.
More great photographs.
The other day, Michi came over to check out our new place and of course to develop some film!
Olga looking proud.
Dad and i visited my aunt near Cologne.
This is where we stayed for the night, a very nice little classy hotel.
We drove back the next day. Lena, a friend of Olga, came for a visit.
So we visited the Germanic National Museum.
He seemed pretty excited about his visit.
A dunkin donuts store opened in Nuremberg.
A gift from my father. m6 tx xtol
Regular Tri-X again. Shots from single rolls and cams are a little mixed in posts like this one. I shoot the M6, M2 and also the Hexar regularly and for some stories here i prefer to sort most images in chronological order. But hey, i rediscovered the naming system i used some years ago and combined it with my current numbering system. So you just have to hover over a frame for the cam+film+dev combo.
Construction site at my work.
Michis roll of film drying in the bathroom.
All white. I like that.
Lunch.
I like the ordinary things.
Scratched frame #31.
:/ See you next time!