just an optical illusion! the search factor.

The following two photomontages I shot once more with the Pentax SFXn and a non-AF Vivitar 35-70mm lens on AgfaPhoto Vista+ 400 film.
They're just little photomontages and not in the style of the last montages. The scene is a public bookcase in the Rheinauhafen in Cologne.
The first photomontage consits of 4 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. The total size is 27x16cm and the second photomontage consits of 4 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm, too. The total size is 28x18cm.

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.

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.

Posing for Tichý.

I like the shabby look of the pictures by Miroslav Tichý, because the atmosphere is like in a dream or in a fairy tale. Last time when the weather was foggy I shot some pictures with the red Konica Pop of my girlfriend and a AgfaPhoto APX 100 black&white film, also from my girlfriend. She already shot some pictures, which I'll show at the beginning.

by Sarah A.

by Sarah A.

by Sarah A.

"Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world."

by Miroslav Tichý.

Posing for Schiele. part 1.

I'm a big Egon Schiele fan for years, therefore I ever wanted to create pictures inspired from his art, especially in the hand positions in his works.

making-of picture

making-of picture

I shot the pictures with the Praktica Super TL in combination with the Steinheil Auto Cassaron 2.8/50mm lens. The first film was a Fuji C200 and the second film I used was an expired Migros Mcolor 100 film. For both films I used the Carena CA 21 flash and at the first film I also used the flash with the red filter.

It was cold outside...

In the last December and the first January days I shot some rolls of film. There will come part 5 (shot with the Minolta 7000AF) of the The 2-Cameras-Double-Exposure-Project. Also I shot a Kodak Ektachrome 400x, which will process with C41, with the 7000AF.
At last will come some black&white pictures which I shot with the Konica C35 AF on AgfaPhoto APX100 film.
But first some pictures which I shot with the Leica Z2X on Fuji C200 film.