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05 November, 2017

Crash your camera!!!

You know the situation when you want to take some pictures, but in this moment your camera doesn't work. My girlfriend had this moment at October, 25th as she wanted to take some photos of a graffiti wall with her Konica Z-up 110 Super. She became veryveryvery angry and crashed the camera at the wall.
I shot this massacre with the Yashica T4 D and a Kodak VR+200 film.
I never used the date feature at a camera, but I thought that this moment needed the proof function to document this crime!

Of course, we used a broken Konica to stage this massacre! ;)

05 April, 2017

just an optical illusion! remix².

After the last photomontage I had the idea to create new montages. For that idea I shot my girlfriend in the Rheinauhafen in Cologne. First in the direction of the Kölner Dom and then I just turned around and she went to the other direction. Of course I shot the surroundings, too.
But as I made the montages I used the wrong or opposite picture of my girlfriend for each montage.
The first photomontage consits of 10 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. The total size is 20x39cm and the second photomontage consits of 12 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. The total size is 28,3x40cm.
I shot the pictures with the Pentax SFXn with a non-AF Vivitar 35-70mm lens on expired Agfa Vista 400 film.

26 March, 2017

just an optical illusion! remix.

Some time ago I wrote, that I'm not a big fan from Minolta. Today I must confess that I changed my opinion about Minolta. In the last time I bought some cameras from them and learned to like them a lot.
But with the X-series I had some problems, because I never found a working camera. First I bought a Minolta XG-M, than two Carena SX-300, which is a labeled Seagull DF-300, which is in fact a Minolta X-300 made in China. All three cameras had the same and often occurring defect, a broken capacitor. After some time I finally found a working Minolta X-300s, which was built by Seagull for Minolta in the 1990s.

Well this post is not only about my search for Minoltas, but rather about a new photomontage.
This time I mixed pictures from a landscape in Karlsruhe with a picture from my girlfriend, which I shot in Cologne.
The landscapes were shot with the Minolta X-300s and the Minolta 3.5-4.8/28-70mm lens (from the Minolta XG-M) on AgfaPhoto Vista+ 200 film. The picture of my girlfriend I shot with the Minolta 7000AF and a Tokina 4-5.6/70-210mm lens on an expired and crossed Kodak Ektachrome 400x.
The photomontage consits of 10 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. The total size is 23x48,5cm.

28 May, 2016

just an optical illusion!

Inspired by the famous picture "The Brooklyn Bridge" by David Hockney and the wonderful works of Thomas Kellner my girlfriend and I created some photomontages in the wonderful Südstadt of Cologne, where we live.
First it was a little bit tricky to coordinate in which order to photograph the scenes, because we also wanted to create the photo index like one picture. In the past I created two one-picture-photo-index works with Photoshop:

"fotoindex 57", brasil, 2009

Now I used my Minolta SRT 101 with a Soligor S/M 3.9-4.8/28-70 mm Macro MC lens.
I shot different scenes. For every scene I shot one film, therefore one scene consists of +/-36 pictures.The films I used were a Fuji Superia 100, a Fuji C200 and two Fuji Superia 200.

As you can see it is really difficult to shoot in the right way to create a right photo index, but the montages are very cool:

03 January, 2011

PHOTOSHOPMANIA!

Last month I bought the wonderful book Photoshop & Fotografia - Como deixar suas fotos incríveis, published by the Editora Europa. The original was published in the Focus Guide Photoshop series by Future Publishing.

The guide has got many tutorials to imitate different styles of great photographers and other dark room techniques.
The tutorials are great and easy to follow. I edited some of my pictures, which I shot with my Zenit 12 PRO on Fuji Superia XTRA 400 film, with Photoshop CS.

1. Daguerreotype