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  • in the clouds

    in the clouds

    With a 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, on Rollei Ortho 25 plus.

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  • hi

    hi

    iphone on canvas. Vienna is currently about 10 degrees away from glowing in the visible spectrum but I am having fun using my historical photographic machinery again so it’s all good. Maybe some of these pictures will survive the air frying. Will have to google at what temperature polyester melts.

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  • short and curlies

    short and curlies

    based on a very good photo by @reliographie also an exercise in a bit more careful cross-hatching and stippling – this is about as careful as i can be before i run out of patience. though i guess that depends on the day and/or background music. this one done to the rolling stone’s it‘s only…

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  • practice

    practice

    have decided to exchange being bad at drypoint engraving for being bad at ink drawing. it’s a much faster way of seeing results that i don’t like, so that’s been very helpful. these ones are not completely wrong but don’t look too closely. this was with a 0.05 (mm? i have no idea, very thin)…

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  • summer night

    summer night

    this got a bit darker than i wanted but only a little bit. With a Rolleiflex “Old Standard”, on Kodak Ektar 100. As usual, guided by technological limitations (f3.8 for 1s) and not so much by a light meter. Okay and underdeveloped at home, that also didn’t help.

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  • horses, ep. 2

    horses, ep. 2

    Turns out, printing on fabric is much harder than on paper. I’ve tried first with normal printing ink which didn’t work at all. This was with water-based fabric ink. It hasn’t gone horribly wrong but it would have needed more ink still. Though that would have killed the fine details even more probably. Maybe one…

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  • at the lake

    at the lake

    Camera: Reflex-Korelle, with a Zodiak-8 fisheye lens. Cropped by shutter malfunction. The additional complication is that the shutter speed (I had it on nominal 1/500s) was also sort of fluctuating randomly between 1/100s and 1/1000s. But I’ll have to pull the shutter curtains now anyway, the leading edges got mangled and they neither open nor…

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  • home

    home

    The Internet: Rectilinear lenses [ensure] that straight lines remain straight in your photographs. This is crucial in scenarios where maintaining the correct proportions and shape of subjects is essential, such as architectural and interior photography. Me: For houses use a fisheye because it do make funny shape. A 30 mm Zodiak-8 lens in this case,…

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  • over at Brecht’s place

    over at Brecht’s place

    Well, actually more like Helene Weigel’s place. And the guest house, if I understood that right. It was built as a sculptor’s studio, which explains the huge glass front. The room behind it was very impressive but a bit too dark for my little box camera. There was a quote in the museum somewhere that…

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  • that tower again

    that tower again

    You too can have stars on your daytime images if you just don’t mix your development chemicals enough. I think that’s what that is. There’s also water stains that I didn’t see when I was scanning it. Additionally, this was overexposed to hell and back because I don’t look at my light meter nearly often…

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