february was one of my busiest month photography wise.

so here the last photos from february 2k8





left: here is space for your creativity
right: fuck scrubs


i've tried my best getting straight lines with the rangefinder.


luckily this one turned out.



intresting threesome


in the elevator of markus place.. it's the smallest i've ever seen.


cream filled willies... awesome.



thought why not also include miriam in my series.


met this redhead at h&m


yum !


funny how bernhard and i took photos of the same situation without knowing of each other versions.


pimpin




just some friends at my place


the m is still my favourite of all cameras..



on the street again.



first sunny and warm days this year. it's like everyone crawls out of their caves all of a sudden.




catching the last sunrays








cafe










the other day..


a little metro-boys gang at burggasse.


somehow i felt like shooting slide again. kodak 100e GX was laying around for a year now.. so i took it out of the fridge for the first time. nice film !





apx 100 in comparison








we did a polaroid for a project of chris d. and it didn't work out, so we took one with the leica.. then we managed also to do the polaroid. it's pretty complicated to expose with a sx-70 on a 600 film.. but now i know how to do it (with ND filter)











400nc.






that was february

who needs a working metering anyway ? blog featuring b/w /(leica m6, all frames guessed exposure) and colour (digital canon 1dsMKII)


starting the blog with a quite funny scene. i was walking in the area of museumsquartier and heard this sound of a never ending tooting horn. first i thought it's some art installation, would fit to the place... but then i got curious and looked for the source of it.

when i got closer, i saw this helpless taxidriver, trying to fix the alarm that seemed to go off while driving.. he was on the phone with someone, probably some serviceline.

or maybe he just wanted to steal, but let's not just think that because he looks like he'd never be able to take a plane to new york city...

after about 15minutes the tooting stoped.



having pizza and antipasto with anna. after we had eaten, she was checking her teeth with a toothpick.


all cleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean


showing some of the recent prints. this one actually.


it's a nice restaurant, just the waiters overdo it with their italian charme sometimes.


later in the darkroom.


it was freezing cold that day.


at the fotostudio weinwurm. people wondering why others pay for these pictures.


the following two pictures were taken, developed and scanned in amsterdam !



a very fitting advert. "tiles, beautiful as love"


"i know the way !"


these girls reacted quite scared after i tried to take another frame. either they are just scared or i looked scary, i can't decide.


the pigeon didn't mind me anymore.


emocouple and dog.


a few people had to celebrate the freedom of kosovo




pretty senseless sentence.


grampa rambo is back in town.


boys aren't scared or evil, they even greet random persons with a camera that are about to take a photo.


at a friends place. first tests, we're about to make a short movie !


daniel playing the male "star role" christina the female.


not yet warmed up.


important VIP calls for our star ! ;)




discussing the storyboard


first test shooting. this is out of context.. but i just had to take photos of that scene.. sorry ;)














later decided to go for a few drinks.






he really managed to divide his cigarette in two while rolling it.. i don't remember if he was laughing or crying there..


füunsswansig bieeeeeeeeer ?


yeah. it looks like fun. but it's all posed, they're professional at posing !



please open the next image in a new window !


back to more serious pictures. trix again.

"good air" instead of "fresh air".. i thought it's perfect for our darkroom.. which features best air conditions you can think of.


in the supermarked. i had guessed f4 1/125th there.. it's the same exposure like outside.. almost like in a studio. pretty much waste of light if you ask me.


subway.

at besmas place. she was so kind, so that i could also portrait her for my series. here is the outcome at flickr.


after the photos. with cigarette


and cat lui.. or loui ?

letter from thailand as far as i remember correctly.


young girl, giving me the evil look. unlike the boys !


at a vernissage of a contest. not too much intresting for me to shoot.. (not meaning the content of the exhibition here)

also hard to guess exposure there.


a lady enjoying the service of the catering.


robert who won the 10000 peanuts for the first price. but his works deserved it imho.


and with the judges. matthias herrmann giving eva schlegel the "bunnyears".. a very intresting moment for the austrian art scene i'd say.. this made me almost shit my pants to be accurate.


forgot her name holding the cheque of the second price next to herrmann. she did double exposures or montages in b/w, but not baryt though.


a very charming waitress of the catering has lost a glass of wine right beside me. that made me remember the times when i was doing that some years ago.


magdalena on a short visit.


miriam back from germany. that's what she has brought with her. another very subtile decorative poster for the flat !


the next day. shooting random street moments.


a must take moment ! ;)


coca cola versus leica. they have something in common. i should have taken this one in colour though...


nice coincidence there too.


having pita falaffel with miriam.


weird in some way. "euda photo gemacht !"


yeah i cropped the legs.. fuck it.. i know.. still nice frame i think.


boys in the subway.


they didn't naturally think i must be a perv, unlike the young girls.

(things change with the age though, i think of nude photography here when girls get naked in front of old men because they think they're special then, boys don't do that usually do.. sorry i'm unable to write this down as i would like it to be.. contact me if you want to discuss.. ;) )

the alternate seat.


maybe he was listening to daft punk around the world or he was programmed by the evil Ludwig Vincent

testing the 35/1.4 EF here for the first time. definately not for the last !



50/1.4:


that's not funny face (real one)


still not funny..


hope it was a good read.. i had my fun with most of it.

cheers !

ps: i almost forgot. of course i am selling prints too, because some asked last time, you just need to contact me for details, just mail me: sk7c@gmx.at

umm... one of these wasted days after drinking through the night.. still feeling sick.. thought i'd might post in my blog again.

mostly staying in the darkroom printing lately.. but when i'm outside i'm shooting like a weasel.

having soup in the ramien. nice place with a stressed waitress.



nina being a little pissed. well well.. the last photo of my bike before some stupid stupid truckdriver hit it...


mr. lucky bastard ! who is hopefully making me a website.. finaly !


quelle surprise !

woman being eaten by a garbagebin




man watching "lesbian" porn in a public cafe. too bad i had only one hand free and not much time for this picture.


bokeh !

it's like saying "elevator is retarded"


now to the bad news.. at least i'm still straight ;)


cute snapshot. was doing one more diptych


A is for Analphabet


some myspace-emo--bulletformyvalentine-groupies taking cellphone pictures of their feet in a "star" plus putting a small very cheap looking vodka bottle in the center.

too bad i had 100iso there.


"if i had a nocti" i could even shoot apx25 in the subway... haha

f2.0 /30th 100iso

having late lunch. loving these expressions.


the oldschool coke bottles are just ace.



man waiting for the tram.


after she tried hard to sell one of her handmade tablecloths she decided to fall asleep.


hello there !


some of you might remember this photo of the shopping cart in the stream.
if you have ever asked yourself how this is possible... well i was asked to make a photo similar to it but this time not with a canon powershot a40 with 2mp resolution on full digital zoom, because they need it for print.





so what you need therefor

a: an assistant
b: a shopping cart !
c: a camera with tele lens
d: a bridge and a flat river


first you throw the cart down the bridge. (be sure nobody is watching and also try not to hit anybody)


when it's down there.. find a way to get to it.


just throw it in the river. then go up the bridge again and take the photo. well that was the plan... but the stream was too strong so the cart was carried away pretty quickly.


now follow it until it stops somewhere.


get to the next bridge in the direction of the stream of course.

now send your assistant back to the cart and make him hit the cart.


first try with a piece of wood (throwing)


then trying to hit it with the foot. (risking a cool bath included)


another technique.


again trying with a stick, this time not throwing it.


after several tries and techniques the assistant finaly was successful.


now just follow the cart with your camera and take some photos.


the stream was turning it around 180°


since you're on a bridge, be sure to catch it up when it arrives on the other side. hope that no car will hit you crossing the road.



voila ! done. this is the final photo !


now back to the usual.


my fathers kitchen.





going to styria again, shooting some other workers of a factory. on the way there schef lost his pack of cig he just bought.. but we found it.


at the factory. they produce all kind of filters and isolation elements.


i was lucky to hit it while it was glowing it was just for half a second or less.


taking photos like these made me feel like at new years.



these are the starters.. actually they are trash.. but i liked how it looked.


it's almost as putting a pizza in the oven.. just a few hundred grade more.


these were quite fun.. damn that was bright.




on the way back to vienna we stumbled across the "niggas colony" we had to make fun of it..


für so manch wiener mag dies auch witzig sein.


short break. it was pretty dark already.. to dark for canon AF.. 3200iso 1/25th f1.8


i was testing what's possible shooting in extreme low light with the digital canon. 1/8th 3200iso 1.8:


the powerbook was enough light though.





"wash me" the bosses car ;)

ps: apx100




a classic.. but this time f2.0 1/8th.




small dick


david the french artist. he was making a quick sketch of me, so i took a photo of him. max on the turntables in the back. kodak trix 1/8th f2.0




we stayed till they closed



then decided to go to the johnnys.. after years again.. getting real wasted.


t'was fun to see this mirror again.. too many drunk self portraits done there..


end of the roll.


next day.. finishing the apx on the way to the darkroom.

footprints on the elevator.


some scene i liked.



for yama:



nite !

starting a while back. a roll of apx 100.. took some time to expose the film since 100iso is pretty absurd in winter.

the photo itself is not very special.. but i'm surprised about the sharpeness at 1/4th second. didn't expect that.




makes me think of courntey love " When I wake up in my makeup" phrase of a song.


windows 98. it's been a while now.


also back in the class when we had exhibition. 1/8th


i really liked the scene but thought that with 100iso it will be impossible to catch. so i tried f2.0 and 1/15th while walking parallel with the two.. i took 3 photos this one worked out best.


old man with lots of beer (und tschick)


austria em2008 still life.


i wonder if this combination was intended.


vitus driving the car while having a kebap.


driving on the highway..


Mmmh !


i'm having a deja vu ! i think i posted an entry 2 months ago or even earlier with a photo of the 30trix package. here is a new one. the old completely exposed already.


switching to trix.


checking the outfit.


made me think of www.gayboy.at

tram D.


at vitus place. they have small rats there.



music via pseudo-i-pod ! ;)


still a bit sceptic, because i was not doing it the myspace way.


vitus was cooking some wok. actually nicely done!


too bad the scanner exposed on the wall i the back here.. it's because of the lamp. the tones really suck.. but it's just a negscan.


here you see the difference when the lamp is covered.


i think that turned out pretty cute. stupid lamp in the back fucking up my tones !

documenting how to make profile photos.

one

two..


three...


four.. (my favourite)


that was nice !


the other day having late lunch with linus.


and developing some films.


i can't think of anything better !


the developement seemed to like the exposure here. f2.4 1/30th. trix in xtol 1:1 21C° 9:30min


at some friends place. we werer playing "mäxchen".. the worst game ever.. but i like it.. you just have to drink a lot of strong alcohol.


what do the magic dice say ?

(trying the 28/1.8 ef here)


a MÄXCHEN !!



4er pasch !


so the rum was empty pretty soon.


eating like a dog !





pretty boozed already.


tamar joined when we left.


on the way to the next place i was doing the "boozy rider".


we took a cab.


carneval in the morgenstern.


looking for something to write on.


this one i didn't take.. must have been lorant.. the guy on the left tops it.


holding the "toy" camera.


lorant wasting a frame on me.


me wasting a frame on lorant.. or was it someone else ? i don't remember.


playing foosball.


the return of the mummy !






two ladys on the bar, dancing.


action !




confetties all over the place.


posing for the camera.


opening the stoly!



having a "nap".



she is good at selling those !


one for me.



one of those "comissioned" ones ;)


anna looking for something. i liked the whole compositon here.


getting late.


cheers !


more emotions. robbie williams and falco.


looking wasted.



time to nap a little.


cleaning up.


got home at 7:30 got up at 12 still very boozed.. best time for a self portrait.


tanja in her kitchen she accidently burned down. so i asked if i could make some photos of her there.

trix@800









also took some digitals. this one might be my fav from the series.


took this one for the diptych series i'm working at right now

in the stairway the light was really nice.


also because of the state of her flat she was moving out. the small car was filled up completely.


not much space left to sit.





andi and i went by public transport then.


es kann losgehen... hahah.


young overdressed kid.


oida echt wirklisch alta muschi oida ey !


he was trying to impress.


later having some coffee.. that i really needed.





for takeaway ! too bad it's not a new eizo screen ;)


monday.. driving to styria... 7 am usually my bedtime.. schef still being a little tired .. hehe.


now to some hot stuff..

steelworkers in styria. comissioned shooting for an agency.




100% crop.. pretty nice !


they produce suspensions for trucks.


my favourite guy from there. i need those braces !




lotsa steel ! :O



these things were pretty warm ;)


tons and tons of metal.


testing the acuracy of the suspension element.



going back to vienna. emanuel (who did the filming) was having a nap.


next week i'll be shooting a ceramic factory... sounds like fun.

cheers