photos ornamented with flowers - part 15

Once more a little piece of this series, today with flowers...

photos ornamented with flowers - part 14

We are back with a new part of this wonderful series and it is like the parts 9 - 12 with bird feathers and a black&white portrait of my girl friend!

The LOCOstgraphy style part2 - new old stuff...

I'm back in Germany since May and I just took my Praktica LTL3 with Helios 44M-4 2/58mm, the Revuenon Special 2.8/135mm, the Tron flash, the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar, the Leitz Elmarit-R 2.8/35mm, a M42-EOS and a LeicaR-EOS adapter (both from quenoX), the digital EOS stuff, some 35mm- and pocket-films and my two Lowepro bags (Nova 5 AW and Orion Trekker II) with me from Brazil.

In the last days I just bought some new old stuff here in Germany and, of course, I did it in the real locostgraphy style (see part1 here)!  Like at the Durlacher Kruschtlmarkt flea market in Karlsruhe Durlach, the Oxfam store and the Mimapi Altertümchen, both in the wonderful Südstadt of Köln, where my beautiful girl friend lives, and at the two social secondhand stores the Kashka and the Déjà-vu, both in Karlsruhe.
The wonderful fact to buy old photo equipment at flea markets and thrift stores in Germany is, that you can buy good stuff, which already works, for a good and fair price! I also was at a well known photo store in Köln to buy a wonderful Zeiss Ikon Contaflex for a relatively high price, but it didn't work and the dealer was very astonished that I even want to use it. Of course I didn't buy the Contaflex, because I don't want an expensive dust catcher! ;)

I just bought some cool SLRs:
_ Revue ML (a labeled Praktica MTL5)
_ Revueflex 3000 SL (a labeled Chinon CX)
_ Praktica Super TL
_ Revue X4-M (a labeled Mamiya ZE-X)

Black Bone III + Black Bone II

But my main focus at the moment is to buy M42 prime lenses, which I can adapt at the digital EOS. Therefore I bought the following lenses:
_ Chinon 2.8/28mm
_ Schacht Edixa-Travenar-A 2.8/50mm
_ Steinheil Auto-Cassaron 2.8/50mm (@ Praktica Super TL)
_ Revuenon Auto MC 1.8/50mm (a labeled Pentacon / Meyer Optik Görlitz, @ Revue ML)
_ Revuenon 1.7/55mm (a labeled Chinon, @ Revueflex 3000 SL)
_ Schacht Edixa-Travenar-R 2.8/85mm
_ Revuenon Special 2.8/135mm
_ Rexatar 5.6/300mm
_ 2x Revue Auto Tele Converter 2x

Then I also bought three other cool cameras:
_ Olympus µ[mju:]
_ Minolta AL-F
_ Kodak pocket instamatic 100

Further I bought some other stuff:
_ Revuenon 3.5/135mm (a labeled Enna München, with M39 Zenit screw mount)
_ Auto Revuenon MCF 1.4/50mm (a labeled Mamiya Sekor-EF 1.4/50mm lens) + Auto Revuenon MCE 4.5/80-205mm (a labeled Osawa lens) both with Mamiya ZE bayonet and which came with the Revue X4-M
_ Metz Mecablitz 30B3 flash
_ Revue Tron C30S flash
_ Lowepro Nova 1
_ Holiday 80s style photo bag

Totally I've paid 193 Euro for all this new old stuff!

And at the end of the post two pictures taken with the EOS Rebel XSi (450D) and the Chinon 2.8/28mm with crop factor it's a 44.8mm (the 1st picture) and the Revue 1.8/50mm with crop factor it's a 80mm (the 2nd picture):

Angels & Demons - MailArt project - part2

My work "tesla waves" (in the middle of the photo) at the MailArt exhibition „ANGELS & DEMONS“ by Atelier5B

new pictures are coming soon!!!

I'm sorry that the time is passing by and I didn't post new stuff, but at the moment my wonderwonderful girlfriend and I are working at new pictures of our photos ornamented with flowers - project!!!

Pictures taken with Canon Rebel XSi/450D and Leica Elmarit-R 2.8/35mm (photos 1+2) and Sigma 3.5-5.6/28-80 (photos 3-5).

Palimpsest vs. Sandwich

I just wrote in a post that "to make a palimpsest isn't an exact science with norms. You can calculate many things ahead, but how the end product really will be, is often in the stars. It's really learning by doing and learning from errors." 
Often before I'll make a palimpsest, I scan the paper to look which picture will work with it. Therefore I create some sandwich montages with the paper and the pictures.
This example shows the difference between a clear sandwich montage and a weird palimpsest. 
I've used as paper a page from the German magazine "hobby - das Magazin der Technik" - No. 17/67 from 23.August 1967. The page shows the exploded view drawing from a submarine model:

First I made a sandwich montage in Photoshop, where I could adjust everything to have got in the end some different versions and hopefully one version which is "perfect":

Well, to think now that the palimpsest also will have the same appearance is unfortunately wrong. Of course, you can set everything perfectly in Photoshop and the printer as well, but if the paper is fed wrong from the printer, then it may already be problems. And many old papers aren't really suitable for printing. But often you just know this detail after printing, like here:

Therefore if you have got an unique paper, scan it before you print on it!

photos ornamented with flowers - part 13.

It's a long time ago I made my last digital sandwich. In the beginning of my career I've used this technique very often. I'm very influenced by the works of Jerry Uelsmann, who is the grandmaster of the sandwich technique with film negatives. Well, I can only create sandwiches with Photoshop...

I've used some pictures, which I made in September 2014, of a blooming Ipê-amarelo.

As second layer I've used black&white self portraits of my beautiful girlfriend.
And here are the results:

photos ornamented with flowers - part XII.

Today I made a palimpsest with a picture of my girlfriend which I've decorated with some bird feathers and an old Brazilian coin with a Lobo Guará.

WIRRWARR 13 @ ARTE UNDER Transcultural

Today the Spanish page ARTE UNDER Transcultural showed the works from WIRRWARR 13!!!
See it here:

Hoy viajamos a Brasil para conocer el trabajo de Fabricio Schmidt - PhotoArt
Fabricio Schmidt, nació y creció en Alemania y ha vivido en Brasil desde 2007. Él es un fotógrafo, artista visual y participó en eventos y exposiciones individuales y colectivas en Brasil y Europa. También he tenido varias publicaciones en revistas.
El foco principal de la misma es el uso y procesamiento de fotos en fotomontajes, collages e instalaciones, sino también en los procesos de impresión alternativos.
Uno de tales procesos alternativos de impresión es la técnica de palimpsesto.

El proyecto WIRRWARR 13 es sobre el amor de dos personas, que se encuentran atrapados en el espacio y el tiempo. Ellos no pueden ver, sólo se puede sentir. Sólo una distancia geográfica entre ellos. Una barrera para muchas personas por lo que ya es una razón para renunciar a una relación, pero para estas dos fotos no es una razón, porque cuando se siente el verdadero amor, entonces usted sabe que no tiene barreras ni fronteras o extremos. Con el tiempo las dos personas parecen que duermen, que crecen junto con su entorno como la Bella Durmiente. Tal vez esta historia de estas dos personas es también un relato de hadas, pero usted puede ver las fotos, que son documentos que aman, entonces son...

The 10th anniversary!

The 5th anniversary!
inspired by Marcel Breuer's "ein bauhaus-film", 1926