been to germany over the weekend.. visited this wonderful lady on the back of the car here:


won't break chronology though.. so, i'm starting with some random photos i took before the trip, in vienna.

trix, normal.

1/30th panning shot. it can't always be perfect.. still good enough i think.


i wished i had a trix+3 or somerthing similar for this shot, but i only had the 400 one, already shot a few frames.. so i went with 400iso here. 1 second exposure time.. couldn't believe my eyes when i scanned it... handheld.. who the fuck needs IS ?? shoot M ;)



8h trip to germany, by train.. it's horrible.. here the olfactory train-toilet-mirror self shot. i'm very flattered by the tones for a trix+3 here though.


one more a rangefinder was the only useful tool for this photo. i never could have focused with a slr here i also doubt any AF would have focused correctly here. shot through a "dotted" glas.. funny that you haven't seen as much detail with your eyes than on the photo because f2.0 blurred the glas-print structure. exposure was more guessed here, since the camera metered on the white surface and would have totally underexposed it.

i'm curious what this looks like on paper !


so miriam and i have been to a concert. many DJs (electro shit) and deichkind as main gig.. they had water toilets, amazing !


the music was crap imo, but some people still were partying.. btw: she's looking straight in my camera.. i'm a lucky bastard this time, since shooting 1/8th in the mosh pit is kinda.. yeah

well.. FINALLY... after hours, they started to play. "krawall und remmi demmi" in a picture here:

(i jumped with the crowd and took this one at 1/8th, panning deluxe i'd say :D )



decided to leave the mosh pit. wasn't such a great concert for me.. so i started walking a round and shoot a few frames.

some staff making fun of other staff..


the "official" photographer.. with his dslr climbed up the construction.. maybe he had a nice view


but i doubt he has a photo like that, ready to be printed on real photo paper ;)


found my first victim for a shot. seemd like relationship problems or something.


took one of these. i knew it was blurry.. but then again, i didn't want to take another one for the sake of shooting these two "main subjects" of most photographers around.. kinda boring.



more motif seeking.. the holy 1/8th here once again. the typical "i'm writing an important message with my fancy cell phone" pose:


some people decided to rest a little.. in sweaty smoky air and 150dB sound.. hmm.. very calm it was !


some decided to sleep a little..


in all kind of poses..



did i mention their great air condition ?




miriam after the concert :D.. glad i was shooting and not in there between topless homer simpsons.

back in vienna again.. back to business. trix+3

random shot.


it's winter. time of alcohol. met an old bud again. we took the opportunity and visited one bar after another to waste many bucks on alcohol.. like i said, back to business.


we've been the last ones there, as you can see..


how very retarded:


next bar. next beer.


they served lots of vodka. he went to the bar and fridge like a pendlum clock.. and the vodka got emptier and emptier


she was busy for hours, writing a text message..


other "guests" enjoyed their stay too


well we had to leave again. to the last bar that had opened till 5am on sunday. at a wurstel stand, a lady showed us a map with all bars around the corner and their opening times.. that was nice.. so we found another one and had another drink there.


stumbled across this paint tub..


seemed like it had learned to fly !



the other night. on the way to the darkroom.. wasting the last frames




kinda funny. this car and the other one with the paint.

just some recent scan material..










this one was 1 second, 3200is, f2.0.. that's dark :D



met him at 6am in the bus. drunk as shit.. hah.


he's being responsible for a lot of alcohol consume in the last years:


see !

the last three are berns creations:

just a few prints i did last night.

all very good negatives, why chose those that are hard to print when you have balanced ones.. ;)

printed this on RC and then on fiber. i really liked the RC but looking at it side by side, reminds me why i print fiber.. it's such a difference, especialy the black is different and the tone.

printed with 4,5 and slight 3 for the mids.

here is the negscan


that fb print looks so ace, i will probably print this large one time.. for 3200iso, yeah that's crazy. reminds me of how important exposure and developement is, namely the most important.

printgrad 3,5.

negscan



printed this on RC only but fb will follow soon, because this asks for it, because of all the black.

scans never do prints justice i believe but this time it's really the case that it does not do it justice. so much black just does look great on paper but not on screen.. anyway i decided to make this look like night so printed it darker than the negative asks for.. see henri, it's easy to create that look with "too bright" nightshots as you name them ;)

negscan


that's a funny print. it looks like the negscan and both look nice to me. so creamy..

negscan actualy shows me where i can improve this print.

just recent stuff. trix+3 again:


"fasten seatbelts forbidden, here one dies like a man!"

f2.0 1/4th.. i'm posting the stats for henri :)





so much mids here, i love that film.


his piss was almost dry. i wonder how long he slept there like this.




bernhard and i played around with the "enlarger" ;)








this one is for henri ;) f2.8 1/8th:


this one too: 1/4th f2.0


and this: f2.0 1/8th


the medium format enlarger also seemed to work out:

have been printing more than shooting in the last days.

i thought, i'd show some of them, compared to the negscans.. always a pleasure to compare these.

i'll give marks for negatives and prints from 1 - 10 where 10 is the best.

i'll start with my favourite print:
one of my best prints at the moment. fiber. using agfa mulitcontrast glossy for all my fibers. neutol NE as developer.

i'd rate this 9,5 /10, since you could if you want dodge the driver of the taxi a littlebit.. but i don't really care about that but would understand if someone suggested it.

used grad 3.5 for this one.. not much else. no burn or dodge here.

the negative is much better than it seems on the scan. tmax doesn't look nice scanned. i'd rate it 10/10 actualy.. i don't think that you can make a perfect print without a perfect neg, so if i give a print 10 /10, the neg must be 10/10 too...

i've now printed this a several times. on different papers, sizes, enlargers.. etc and it won't get better. so i'd say it's just a matter of luck if i make better enlargements of this one. i'd rate it 9 /10 because i know there is some, even if little, space for improvement.

maybe the most tricky photo to enlarge so far beside the boy on the eiffeltower.

grad 5 on the whole. while exposing with the five, covering the edges after a while to keep the information in the shadows of the vignetting there. then grad 1 for skintones only. then grad 0/00 burn outside the train, focused on the area where sunlight entered.

the whole print takes more than a minute exposure time only even for a f4.0 on the enlarger.

well.. some of you want to see the negative now right ? here it is: link. now that's what i call low.

well i'm not proud of having such a shitty negative... haha.. but what can you do. it's of course my fault, since i was completely overexposing this one and also overdeveloped the roll... good combination i'd say.

i rate this neg 2,5 /10 while 1 means almost unable to enlarge properly.

one of my best prints imo at the moment. it's a fiber one. i'd rate it 9 /10, the only space for improvement is the highlight area that could get a bit more light with the grad 2 probably, but that's a matter of taste i think, since i like it this way.

printed it with 3 1/2 and burn around her and outside the train.

the negative is really nice. exposure is spot as developement. 10 /10.

a very quick print, but it was not very tricky to do because of a good negative. i'd rate it 8 /10. somehow it could have been better.. but i wouldn't say that there is much space for improvement. maybe i don't like it so much because it is RC and enlarged on the old enlarger, that doesn't produce as nice prints as the new one.. grad 3 no burn or dodge as far as i remember correctly.

the negative is nice for printing due to correct developement and exposure. i'd rate it 8 /10.

old image. finaly printed for the first time. a quick rc print. i'd say 7 /10. it looks really nice i think but has lost too much in the shadows and could need more in the highlights too. will take my time for this one for a fiber later.

printed this one with grad 4 and burned with 0 on the windows.

i remember shooting this one. i had agfa apx100 in it and was shooting with a slr. i didn't want to go beneath the 1/30th so i had to go with -1 step exposure.. see what that means on the negative.

so i'd rate this neg like a 4,5 / 10. printable but not a pleasure

quite hard to print. don't underexpose t-grain films ! ;) i can remember that this shot was almost a step underexposed. the trix wouldn't care about that but the tmax400 does/did.

used grad 4 here overall, then burn with the 2 around the man and burn with 1 on the man's coat.

so yeah, i'd rate this print 7 /10. it's not bad but could be better but i was too lazy for another try and it's just a RC one.

to the negative.. well i'd rate it 3,5 /10. i had worse than that.. but it's not a good one. i must add that tmax films strangely never look nice on a negscan.. but this neg is not really a pleasure to print

did this one for the one who took it. print is quite good 8/10
, there is not much space for improvement, since i have the contrast and enough or almost all information in the highlights, see negscan. printed this one with grad 5 and dodged the right part of my face while exposing with 00. burned a lot more with 00 outside the window.

i'd rate the negative 5 /10. it seems like correctly exposed but the lighning was just very strong from the back, which makes it quite taff to print.

printed on rc, grad 4 + 2 burn on right. quick print, would say 6 of 10. will reprint this later on fiber. needs more burn on the right on the white surface with grad 1 maybe , see compared to the negscan.

here the negativescan: negscan. would rate it 3 of 10, low contrast due to reflecting and a bit dirty window, harsh contrast outside the train. delta400+2 didn't work very well on this photo. i almost never shoot delta though, it was a present of chris, i was out of film. i'm just much better with kodak.

so on the last roll, that got developed a few hours ago, there are mostly shots of details or city sceneries because i just felt a bit bored of streetshots.. so i tried myself with these:



(i'm going to rant a little.. because some things are just too fucked up.. you can also just stick to the images itslef, that have almost nothing in common with the rant but are just examples that should make my words more clearly)



it's funny how people wouldn't use a rangefinder for still lifes usually. they stick to slr or medium format. these kind of photos that are following in the blog are not really possible with anything else than a rangefinder though. not without a tripod and a bunch of time.

so all the following shots are handheld from 1/30th to 1/4th of a second. all sharp. all the way i wanted them to look like. these were just tests. i wanted to test what is possible with that small camera called M6.






setting up a tripod there would have been a pain in the ass, but who needs one, if you have a superduperfinegrained trix+3 and a rangefinder.








thats a kinda shot, you usualy just don't take without having a tripod and time. shooting this on 3200asa and wide open on f2.0 sounds like complete nonsense, right ? but hey, i'm going to print this and hang on my wall probably... this photo took me 10 seconds. f2.0 1/15th.. look at that.. i'm pretty amazed by this sharpeness and details and tones.. and all that.

how is that possible ?

a: exposure must be right on.
b: focus.
c: hold still damn it. and use a rangefinder.. forget a slr !
d: correct developement !! (!!)
e: correct print

done.







ever heard about the term "bokeh" ? yeah it sounds crap.. almost like an anime emotion. like oh your bokeh is sugoi and kawaiii !! which would mean something like "wow the unsharp area of your photo is awesome and cute"... well it is, awesome. there is a reason why people call that lens "bokeh king"...

i always find it great when people argue about lenses, and MTF charts.. and how sharp this lens is and how sharp the other is... but people forget that sharpenes is just one parameter of a lens. if you care about photography, you also care about contrast of a lens, shadow detail, dynamic range, colours, bokeh.. all these things are dependent of your lens too.. not just your freaking sensor (nowadays).

so what's the geeking all for ? i think geeking is good when you know to use your knowledge. i love it when people talk so much with their forum-educated brains.. but can't shoot a good photo, because they have no freaking talent or eye at all.

i highly prefer people who just don't say a word and make nice photos to the opposite.. if you have talent, feel blessed, do something with it.. and if you have both, the talent and technical geek knowledge, even better... but only geeking sucks balls !

so something about this photo. i could have shot it at f2.0 1/30th but i decided to stop down to 2.8 1/15th because of these cute stars that are created when you stop down a little.










see that photo of the heineken bottles ?
taken at an 8th of a second. ever tried to shoot in the shadow at night ?

this photo is great in b/w. it will look UBERnice on fiber print or platin or whatthefuckever.. it's good to have it on a negative because i can do so much with it now. i can print it in so many ways and enlarge it however i want to. i always find it cute how people shoot their digital slrs and then bring their decalibrated, oversharpened, interpolated, noisy digital files to the lab to get some cheap prints from a machine that produces 100 of them an hour.

it's nice that you like these DA prints so much.. but damnit, I CARE about my photos and that means that i want to do more with them than just uploading some NANO-jpgs in the net and maybe let them get printed by some lab around the corner !











what an oldschool bike. i was waiting for the night bus so i had enough time to take this one. f2.0 1/8th 3200 iso.

you may ask why i am always adding the technical data ? because it maybe makes some people realize the sircumstances. maybe it makes some people feel ashamed that they could have never taken such a shot, like gilad or ssilence or gwarf.. ahah.. and maybe it makes some people realize that I AM YOUR MOTHER/FATHERFUCKING GOD DAMNIT !!







i'm going to praise the M ONCE MORE. why ? because you can't find another camera that is able to produce such a photo. shot at f2.0, 0.7m minimal focus distance, 1/4th second, handheld at 3200 iso. no, the pigeon did not fly away after the shutter.. i could have taken another shot to be sure.. but i was sure already. why ? because i am GOD damnit!







this dude.. was one of a very cool kind. he was so cool that i felt like i'd better shoot him with a baretta instead a leica.. but yeah these kind of people exist and we should just face it that some people define stupidity. this way of cool acting is clearly just a sort of hiding from real feelings and your real self. you get to learn that in your first lession of psychology.

i rarely shoot in class, since it's boring, i mean the photos turn out boring. i just liked this one for it's shapes. someone asked me later what camera i use because it is so silent.. and then i just listened to a m7 today and feel like an elephant with my m6 now.


in the train once again..


meet ivan. hm. 1/60th 2.8 for the eyes, remember ?


why am i shooting these ? i dunno. wasted shots probably.. but yeah postcards of the 2050's someone has to shoot them, right ?


bokeh, over and out.


"ois oaschlöcha" then he fell asleep. his purse fell on the floor too.


another postcard, even useful nowadays.


haha. i love this mc donnalds. it's close to theatres and the other chic places. often a bunch of teens wearing suits and dresses have a break at good ol mc-d.. i find that hillarious.


more mc-d


printed this one already. just loved how he was styled.


f2.8. this lens beats everything. i love that.


some young soccer "wannabee holigans" how cute.. and sad.


"tirolergasse..." is what she said. the woman on the tape. the tape for that announces the next station of the bus. it's a special tape and a special woman.. she sounds so emo.. you would shit your pants. like these two fellas.

hippishotti


just demonstrating that the m6 still works.. it shoots something called "film".. allright.

we played poker then. till 3am or something.


in the mall.


next evening. he made his finger burn. he's a REAL MAGICIANINAIN or what you call it. f2.0 1/4th.. call me mr.manfrotto.. dude.. i wonder what gilad would have done here.. maybe 10mm 200asa ir-filter 10minutes exposure.. yeah i love this guy


fuck. they were drunk. drunk idiots. just took this one because they were drunk dumbheads. but i am a jerk too when drunk. so this is excused.


my friends. i'm a bit ashamed.


oh it's so film noir !! dude.. i love this.. it's so french cinema.. wow.. you're so talented... fuck off.. i have million of these shots.. it's snapping.. it's boring but yeah there is a cigarette.. WOW


THIS is what i like.. a anti-james dean shot. yeah this is film rouge i think.. muahah..



oh and yeah. i met this guy a week ago or so. i forgot that i shot this photo of him. he's andrew, andrew mangold. cool guy. he's chilling in vienna while his brother is directing films like walk the line... if i had a brother, i'd also be the andrew-one.. that's just cool haha.




now fuck off everyone. why ? because i can say so. because i'm god in this blog !

after a little break, i'm going to post a bigger bolg entry again. have fun !

ps: please forgive any spellings, it's 4:10am like always when i post a blog.

nightline.. hipshot.
i especialy like this photo. there is some hidden detail in it i enjoy a lot. trix+2 1/8th.. glad it is quite sharp.

went to a small gig. took this one while the band was setting up.



i must say, the shelter has one of the ugliest toilets i know. but still it has style.



there were some oldschool table soccer players. they played it on a very high level. there the red team lost.




the text on the paper sais: "please call me, konny" and then the number. that made me curious what could have happened..



"you always know when to shoot in color" is what joe said. i'd answer "i just shoot differently when i have colour loaded".
public weighing machines.. some vienniese hangover.






austria. a place with culture. shot a few frames with the om1 again. 24/2 with superia1600


pleasure - the city edition. that's what the cig-advert sais in the background.


lorant doing some prints. waiting in the darkroom.. i can't think of anything more excting.. ;)

just made a test shot with the oly with the 24/2 on 2.0 1second.. with superia 1600




so there was this party, i was somehow invited to. i met these three young ladies in the bus and trusted them that they knew where to get off. it turned out that we had to wait for another 30minutes.. then walked around in some posh area at night without any orientation. so it took as 2 hours to get to the party.. at least we had some nice talk.. in south tyrolian.. that's where they're from namely.

first impressions. i loved that washing machine there, next to the floor soaked in mud, vodka, beer, puke and whatever god has else created..

i just have been there for a few moments and had to clean my lens every two seconds, because it was filming over all the time due to tropical air inside.



she wasn't the only one who was seeking for the last bits of alcohol.. but she was let's say the most extravaganca.. oh dude.




sebastian. i think that was his name. he brought that last bottle of vodka.. and suddenly he had a flock of drunken zombies around him that bet for some drops of that firewater... well i must admit that i got my first and last piece of alcohol by him too.. thanks buddy !

(he asked for a kiss on this shot)



after taking this shot ^ i had a short discussion with someone who wouldn't believe that it is possible to take photos without flash there, he added "not even with a leica"... i just said, no, that's incorrect. if i shoot on 3200 asa f2.0 1/2 second, it is possible. i wish he will see this photo someday. kinda pissed me off how many people thought i had the M just for posing.. stupid posh dumbasses..


how much i'm not a fan of this band, i was a fan of this compostion.



shouldn't miss on a good party.


it was very crowded there.. like every squaremeter you met a couple of people.. watched this couple having a little argument.. whatever it was about, i dunno.




this was such a quick shot.. i like that it tourned out.




did i already mention that he was.. completely drunk ? well at least now i don't have to tell you..



"krawall und remmidemmi" the perfect song. quite the definition of the evening.



i don't remember what i said.. i just know i told her this shot will be in the internet tomorrow. so i have to keep my promise.



kathrin and her dress. what a nice combination. especially for b/w.

they asked for it. the right one wanted my email. he offered me to shoot on parties.. i dunno.. i'm not planing to play the party-tiger i told him.. i'd still shoot there if i wasn't the "official" once..



whoever he is. he made it into my frame... thanks ;D



one more half-second one..


this dude earns the "clever" award of the evening. cought him while he mixed all the leftovers, drop by drop out of every bottle.. HE STOLE MY IDEA !! ... hmm

i guessed the 1/8th would be enough.. a 1/4th had been better probably.. but yeah.


someone took ages to make "his" (her) business inside the so called "shit house".. so they made jokes about opening the door with a coin or something..

i like that "call me" down there haha.. a classic.


we talked about.. ehm.. something like that she knew me and i was like umm. really.. it turned out that we've been to the same school... well i "honoured" her with my last frame of the first roll. wow i can sounds so arrogant.. haha lovely!


so new roll: you guess... kodak trix+3 again.. what else. it was freaking dark there

oh. this is a special photo for flora ;) i hope you like it after our healthy discussion !

i think it's a nice piece of documentation.. tell me what you think of it !

people looking for their coats and jackets. i was so clever to place mine somewhere seperated.

this photo in a way reminded me on a photo i took at the novarock: a bunch of..




i like contrasts.. i mean beside the b/w..



congratulations ! you are the chosen one ! i've had that honour many times so far, too many times..



actually i was going for the poster, when she popped into the frame.. PEACE sister !



there is a quite subtile reason why i took this one. i wonder if you find out why.


seems like i wasn't the only one shooting there. he was clever enough to ask for some posed shots and used some flash. bet he wouldn't have believed that my grandpas m6 is still working.. ha.


still didn't feel better... yeah it can ruin your whole weekend..




a birhtday-kid shot shouldn't miss i thought. it was his party and his house, or what's left over..

i dunno but this was almost the darkest corner there.. 1/4th on f2.0 still trix+3



finaly he made it to the sink. the last impression of the party. oh dude.. how i know his feeling..




we had to "climb" over that ceiling there.. he didn't make it on the first try.. due to his alcoholic state.. lol


he did it on the second try. haha.



3am "breakfast" at macD.


we've been the last customers at mcD. they closed the door right behind us. we went to his place to get some sleep.

i liked her hands.

he, the worker, said that he wasn't photogenic. kinda funny since i shot this on 3200 asa, now you can imagine how realistic it is to see details of his face by night. i called back "don't worry, it's just your silhouette".. and walked away.


seriously, are these shots bore you at all ? i'm sometimes not sure if i should keep up shooting these "train portraits".. it is turning into some sort of daily routine.

still here a classic one for you.. i think some of you like it:


i dunno. is it sad or funny or isn't it just normal. what did we wear when we were young ? silly things. still that emo-hype is kinda going too far, i wonder how many kids got hit by a car because of that hairstyle, seriously..

i shot this onehanded, since i just ate a sandwich and couldn't get rid of it. he stood still as a statue.

i always have good experiences shooting asian people. they seem to respect photography and have self irony when i shoot them in funny situations. his father almost encouraged him to pose for me. i still had my sandwich so it took me a while to focus.. still got the photo i wanted.





oh and something else: i've sent this to the deviantart "help desk" juse a few moments ago:

"so i could imagine that i got banned for my (so very funny) kinder-DD journals, that are already deleted.

it would have been useful though to let my know if that has been the reason.

one more thing i'd like to know if there is any deadline at all until i am banned or if it is permanent and depends on some admin's mood to get my account back to business ? ;)



ps: yes it's me again. who would have imagined !

pps: i'm sorry that there is no mood icon for HD-messages.. but i will add this smile: :) since i am all positive.. this message is not meant to insult anyone.. i'm just going to be sure nobody takes my words as words of hate and disrespect, as they are intrepretated in some cases here on deviantart.

thank you for a reply !"

developed my latest rolls of film tonight. 2 rolls of trix+3.

starting with the older one. on the way home from paris to vienna. location: strassbourg.

guessing exposure here

and here too.. i just hoped to have the other woman in the reflection also in the frame, which is not that easy with a rangefinder.


view outside. trainstation in strassbourg. 1/30th panning.


miriam left in karlsruhe.. bye bye


first frame in vienna of that roll. he collects leicas and nikons, he said while smelling like an alc bottle. he was nice though. freaky but nice.


<3



i went outside the pub because some weirdos ran around cars. they were from ireland. i said hello. took the photo. went back inside. it was cold. she was straight, he wasn't probably > ;)


glad that i went to the bar to order two beer, for linus and me. there i took a few photos of this guy. if i print that, then in whole as a stripe (wink to chris!)..






in the nightline. going home.

tram action..


last frame of that roll. i waited a minute to get someone intresting in the frame.


next roll:

i told ryan that there was no film loaded. that was a lie. you thought i couldn't top off the sandwich shot.. see this :D !

ps: it's kaesespaetzle.. very austrian food


this dog.. haha freaked me out. he pulled in the other direction. pan action at a 1/15th


wohoo ! my fav shot from that roll. i forgot his name again. i know him. he didn't know me before i helped his mind. he is a barkeeper and i've been there a few times. will print this and give it to him next time i'm there...


bunny checking hairstyle.


honey, can you help me with my neckchain ? sure honey.


this one is for the bokehlovers:


i saw her when we left the train.. so i focused on the distance and waited till they pass us. so the train on the shot is moving. 1/60th 2.4


f11 1/15th. you can blur with DOF or speed ;D


love these old streets downtown.




little hommage to:
like a fish in the bowl. banging against glass.


we went to the cinema. thank you for smoking. others seemd to enjoy it more than i did.

1/4th f2.0


sers