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2011-09-05

2011-08-19

Door

Taken not far away from the previous one, but not on the same day.

2011-08-14

One way

One of the first photos taken back in Hamburg after the vacation.

2011-07-28

Barbapapa

Looks like we haven't had a dog for quite some time.

2011-07-27

Strange fruit

Organic food, by the way. And the photo was taken only a few meters away from where the film was eventually developed.

(You noticed the song title, didn't you?)

2011-07-06

"Oh no! Not another new camera!" Yeah, you're probably right. But it was the kind of offer you can't refuse - an Olympus OM-2n for about the same price I paid for the Holga. What would you have done?

Anyway, this is the last photo before the summer break. In case you'll get bored in the meantime, you might want to check out which of my pictures other people find "interesting" according to Flickr.

2011-07-02

Legs

Another one from last week.

2011-06-08

Grocery

An old one.

2011-05-31

Plate

Filled with things you probably shouldn't eat right now. Slide film again.

2011-04-19

Square bike

So, yeah, I bought a new camera. I spent a whopping 17 Euros for a brand-new Holga. (Actually, I essentially got it for free, but that's another story.)

I somehow had the feeling that I needed something new to "revitalize" my photography and there certainly is a lot that's new (for me) about this camera - for example it's the first time I ever shot square pictures and it's the first time I ever had to deal with medium format film. And that doesn't even take into account all the quirks the Holga is famous for.

What bothers me a little bit is that analog "toy" cameras are kind of a fad in these digital days. I'd rather use something that's totally uncool. (But as a consolation to myself I note that even luminaries like Sylvia Plachy or Michael Ackerman use Holgas every now and then, so it's obviously possible to just use them as tools instead of making a fashion statement.)

Anyway, filling the first roll felt "liberating" in a certain way because almost everything was different from shooting with one of the Leicas. I certainly won't use the Holga as my only camera in the future, but you will likely see more square photos in the next weeks.

Oh, and some things rarely change: The film was Tri-X as almost always.

2010-12-18

Yogurt

I'm unearthing a couple of older color photos quite some time after I stopped taking them. Maybe I'll try again one day.

2010-12-14

White line, too

A variant of this one, twelve years later. Did I make any progress since?

2010-12-13

2 liter bottles

One more from October.

2010-10-16

Textures

I forgot what I thought when I took this picture, but now I think it's about textures. I generally don't make conscious decisions when I'm pressing the shutter. In fact, I try to avoid thinking too hard and too long about a picture while I'm shooting. I prefer to be surprised by what I "saw" when I later see the contact sheet.

2010-10-15

White line

Of course, there's always Robert Frank's magnificent white line which makes all others look like cheap rip-offs.

2010-10-12

Miss

There you have it again. Every now and then a photo which technically is a failure ends up as one that I like because it manages to capture something the "correct" ones don't. This also happens to me with other photographer's pictures and I guess they feel the same because otherwise they wouldn't have published their "misses" in the first place. At the Fotobuchtage 2010 here in Hamburg I had the chance to ask Paolo Pellegrin how he deals with this and my understanding is that his views are the same: if a photo "feels" right then take it, no matter how blurry, skewed, underexposed, or grainy it might be.

As one might have guessed, you can't really fake this. You can of course go out and deliberately use wrong shutter speeds or aim your lens into the wrong direction - but that alone doesn't make a good shot.