analogue impressions

today i can quote myself and show you two primitive collage-like scans of some funny festival shots from my diana mini with iso 400 up to 3200 films:

i finally got my prints of rockamring and rocknheim photos! i'm so happy, documentation of damn good moments :) pic.twitter.com/fPPd48hWn6

— t.r.s.h.p.t.r (@trashpater) October 16, 2013

last sunday i visited an exhibition about steve mccurry, title "overwhelmed from life": he's a well-known american photojournalist; his most famous photograph, which is moreover the most recognised photograph in the history of national geographic magazine at all, is afghan girl. mccurry's works focus on his exceptional ability to reproduce the consequences of war, not only showing what war impresses on the environment, but rather on the human face. i have to admit, that i have rarely seen such great photos yet!

i strongly recommend anyone who stops by an exhibition venue to invest some hours to go into the displayed material. trust me, it'll be a great inspiration for your photographic mind.

reunion

again, if everything worked out, i've already arrived at my mother's place today in the afternoon. since there are a lot of things to do after such a big event, i am entertaining you with one, for now last image from the diana mini, that shows a scene, that is going to be happening today again: the reunion of two siblings.

the photograph above got besides the watermark a vignette to darken the less interesting areas on the edges. it's a round about one second bulb exposure. 

many thanks to foto köhler from hamburg for the nice correspondence and the lovely images und spiegelberg.org for the reference. from now on i switch back to high-res, less grainy, digital images again. .. and meanwhile i'm going to send the next rolls of film to hamburg.

same owner - different attitude

ISO800 seems to be a versatile sensitivity for mixed, mainly cloudy conditions... for the current weekend i have films with sensivities up to ISO3200 with myself.

robustness

robustness is an issue, that the nex 7 is lacking in. not only the display errors and rubber problems take me to handle my nex with extreme care, what is sometimes quite annoying. quite different to the even smaller, lightweight and robust diana mini: i don't shy away from lying it on the concrete floor or scratching it across the street.

on the other hand error robustness while handling the diana mini is ... ambivalent. actually its operation is pretty easy: you may choose from four focus distances, two aperture settings (cloudy | f8.0 and sunny | f11.0) and two different shutter speed options (normal | 1/60 and bulb), but sometimes due to the lack of control indicators in the direct focus one forgets to set the correct values...

be that as it may, i love the two to three seconds bulb exposure of the skating marv.

rock the ring

if everything worked out, i'm currently at rock am ring in the eifel and enjoying a great set of music, getting away from it all and shooting exactly the kind of images, i'm showing you here. accordingly the nex 7 has holidays, too.

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the daily postings for the weekend are prepared and scheduled. till monday i'll show you scanned and not further digitally processed (only watermarked), square images, that were captured with my new diana mini lomo-cam and the first film, a kodak portra 800 colour. stay tuned, there's more to come.