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Taken on Ilford HP5+ and with a yellow filter. I love the tonality of real b/w film.
I am actually quite proud of this picture and the one of the jellyfish. Emily and I went to the aquarium here in Berlin. I should have brought my SLR this day but I only had the rangefinder with me. That meant, no light meter and no auto-focus in a place were light was very scarce and difficult to predict. I had to go to limit of what I can do with this camera, shooting at very slow shutter speeds with the aperture wide open. And with an open aperture comes a very narrow field of depth so precise focusing was crucial. Now, focusing my old Kodak Retina in low light is no joy and the outcome depends on a good deal of luck. So I am quite proud a brought home two keepers that are worth showing.
Seen and photographed at the Berlin aquarium. This cylindrical fish tank is almost like a huge magnifying glass, enlarging and distorting anything and anyone that is on the other side.
I haven’t posted a new picture in a long time. I didn’t really have the time to take a lot of pictures in the past months and although we had a very nice winter this year, it was almost always grey and overcast which is not very inspiring. Anyway, yesterday I finally managed to go out and snap a few pictures. This one was taken on Eberswalder Straße here in Berlin. There are quite a few second hand shops in the area and apparently you can even make a living selling used suitcases. Doesn’t really matter, what does matter is that these old suitcases look very nice on film.
This is a picture I took inside Grand Central Station in New York. The main entrance of the station with the bright sunlight illuminating parts of the building seemed instantly familiar to me. I guess that’s because I have seen pictures of this motif many times before so here is my interpretation.
From a technical side, I am kind of proud of this picture. First of all, my rangefinder doesn’t have a light meter so I have to guesstimate the correct exposure settings. Outside, in daylight this is actually fairly easy. You just have to remember three or four different light situations and my exposures are almost always fine. Inside buildings is a different story though so very often my exposures are off by an aperture or two. Here I got it instantly right which is very nice.
Second, even with the aperture opened all the way, the shutter speed needed to be as slow as 1/25th of a second. I don’t have very steady hands but tried really hard to steady the camera and breathe slowly and it worked. Lots of motion blur but the picture is sharp.
