The 2-Cameras-Double-Exposure-Project. part 5.

I've never used the APS film format, but in the last time I bought in a bundle an APS film and later in another bundle an APS camera and then once more in a bundle some APS films and a APS camera. So I had a pretext to discover the APS format.
In the Agfa Futura FF camera just was a partially exposed Agfa Futura II 200 film with 25 frames. As I turned on the camera, the display showed a 18 and that means that 18 frames just were shot. Sometimes I act headless and therefore I opened the filmdoor. I don't know why, but the camera rewinded the film and then pretended that the film was unexposed. I thought that this can't be happen with the APS format, but for me this was a great luck. After the film was developed resp. processed, I saw that the previous owner just double exposed the film! Therefore the film is now triple exposed!!!
I bought then a Traveler MRC camera at the Mimapi and put the film in it.

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.

40 of 36.

40 of 36...what does that mean? It means that I made 40 pictures out of a 36 frames film. That's my personal record!!! I was very surprised as I saw the price and then the number 40. I get it with the Canon AF 35 M II and a Fuji Superia 100 film.
I shot some making-of pictures...

The 2-Cameras-Double-Exposure-Project @ F-Stop Magazine!!!

Three of my works from the 2-Cameras-Double-Exposure-Project are published in the issue #82: Identity & Community - April/May 2017 of the F-Stop Magazine!!!
You can find them here!

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.