the pentax days.

This September was the Photokina in Cologne, but also the Photoszene-Festival with over 100 exhibitions about photography! My girlfriend and I visited a lot of them.

We visited not only exhibitions, but also made some pictures. These days I used my Pentax cameras: the K1000, the Spotmatic SP1000 and the Pino 35.
The Pino 35 I used for Making-Of pictures of the newest sign project (here you can see pictures taken with the K1000 and here with the SP1000) and of the 2-Camera-Double-Exposure-Project (part 1 and part 2).

the macro effect: from flowers to animals.

Once more I shot some macro pictures. Now I used the Carena 100 SX with a Petri 2/50mm in combination with the Hama Close-Up +1 (picture 1) and the Hama Macro Lens +10 (pictures 2 + 3), and the Super Carenar 3.5-4.8/35-70mm in combination with the Rowi Close-Up +4 (picture 4).
The film was an ordinary Kodak Gold 200.

Ovid's dream.

In August my girlfriend and I visited a performance of the Theater Anu in Cologne. They've showed the piece "Ovids Traum" ("Ovid's dream"). It was really a fantastic show which was astonishingly for us. We enjoyed it a lot!!!
I shot some pictures, but the light meter of the Petri GX-1 didn't work perfectly. All the pictures which I shot with this camera are a little bit underexposed. I used the Petri 2/50mm with the camera and a Kodak 400 film.

the wall dance.

The wall dance is in the tradition of the optical illusion montages (1,2,3 and b&w), but also of the photomontage "Santa Catarina 2010".
The title of the wall dance is "Nordrhein Westfalen 2016", because I shot the pictures in Cologne which is in the state of Nordrhein Westfalen in the year 2016 and the work "Santa Catarina 2010" is also called on the basis of the location and year of the used pictures. Both montages are inspired by the artwork "Illinois, 1979" by Kenneth Josephson.
The pictures were shot with the Petri GX-1 and a Petri 2/50mm lens on expired Foto Knudsen 200 and Foto Schrøder 200 films.
The photomontage consists of 22 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. Total size: 11x177cm.

this way - wrong way. part3.

In the third part the pictures are taken once more with the Carena 100 SX and the Compact Auto Zoom S 4.0-5.6/70-210mm MC lens and now with the Rowi Orange filter. The film was once more an expired Fuji made DM 200.

this way - wrong way. part2.

For the second part I used the Petri GX-1, which is like the Carena 100 SX a Cosina made Kmount camera, in this case a Cosina CT-1A, with a Petri 2/50mm lens and the film was a brand new AgfaPhoto CT Precisa 100, which is a rebranded Fuji slide film and not a real Agfa film like the Agfachrome CTx100, which I used at the last time. I let once more cross the slide film and the cross effect is here green and not purple like at the Agfachrome CTx100.

this way - wrong way. part1.

My girlfriend and I have got a new project with two arrow signs where is written "this way" and on the other "wrong way".
In the first part the pictures are taken with a Carena 100 SX, which is a Cosina C1 variant, with the Compact Auto Zoom S 4.0-5.6/70-210mm MC lens, the Super Carenar 3.5-4.8/35-70mm lens and the Rowi Spot Green filter. The film was an expired Fuji made DM 200.