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Untitled Photographs in Snow (La Junta, Colorado) - analog photographs (35mm kodak ultramax, 3dfx half-frame camera, home development - cinestill cs41, digital media) - 2024
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
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“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
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When we were in Munich with Pete (aka @tvoom) we visited the Deutsches Museum.
As an electrical engineer I just had to visit the Electric Power section! So many people have no idea how important all this technology is for their everyday life, and how much effort still goes into providing us with reliable power supply – especially here in Germany, we just take it for granted (and many people complain about overhead power lines in the landscape without thinking about how important these are; yes, they can be put under ground, but those are less efficient and much more expensive).
And then there are the Marine Navigation (very impressive) and the Historic Aviation sections. And many more that we didn’t have the time to visit.
But one special exhibition I had to visit, and fortunately it took place when we were in Munich: “Cosmos Coffee”! As someone who can’t drink black tee (its side effects are rather uncomfortable for me), coffee is the way to go for my daily intake of C8H10N4O2. The last image shows a computer controlled “fluid bed roaster” that was not only on display, but actually shown doing its work.
If you visit Munich, you should definitely take the time (at least one day ;-)) to visit the Deutsches Museum – it is worth this time (and the rather high entrance fee).
Pinhole photography again – this time on 35 mm film, first with an optimized pinhole (33 mm “focal” length and 0.22 mm hole diameter), compared with the same shot using a regular 35 mm lens.
The pinhole shot used a very long exposure, because I wanted to use the 64 times ND filter – but forgot it! The result is an ISO 800 film, measured with “half box speed” (EI400), and additionally overexposed by 6 stops (!). Try this with your digital camera … ;-)
When we were in Lichtenfels (Frankonia, Germany) this September to the yearly “Korbmarkt” (Basket Fair, https://www.korbmarkt.de/), we did a short visit in Munich to meet with Pete (aka @tvoom). And the first impression after having parked our car in Fröttmaning (yes, FC Bayern München has their football stadium there) – reminded me of my home town Berlin: Cranes. Well, it got better afterwards (photos taken at Marienplatz and English Garden) …
I had my trusty Leica M6 and only the (old, non-ASPH) Leica Summicron 1.4/35 with me, shooting on Lomography CN800 – at EI200, as I found out later, so only a quarter of “box speed”! No problem for this film stock, indicated as “Made in China”, but acting very similar to Kodak Portra 800. I come back to overexposing this film in a later post.
This film was self-developed in CineStill Cs41 (easy as pie) as the 9th film of the 1 liter stock (even the 10th film came out fine), “scanned” with my Olympus Pen F digital and the 3.5/30 Macro, converted with Negative Lab Pro 2.0, and finalized in Adobe Bridge with Adobe Camera Raw. I’m not fully satisfied with NLP2, but it gives good enough data to work with in ACR (I’m still honing my workflow).
