quality time

today i picked up a film i took a few weeks ago. to present you guys what i’m doing when i’m not on the desk. nothing fancy… and the worst film i ever used. i hope it’s just the poor scan, tz ! people…. poor quality from the photostores. no wonder that nobody’s using film anymore.

after ari’s last exam the girls went shopping - i catched them up later for a coffee

…both on the phone

gentlemen meditation

waiting

the two sisters

we had 40 minutes to kill until britta’s departure. so we sat down and enjoyed the sun. i was testing the 50/2 rokkor i found a few weeks ago

at the station ari had a veggie hot dog

and i found the “bild” which i actually wanted to buy the complete the collection of headlines during the european championship. that’s what i do to for a ballace during the exams.

after our “dinner” we went to see france vs. italy game. lots of italian fans watching.

tobi

jenson

my recent favorite.

colorful osnabrück

Goodnight Vienna

Something I saw back in Manchester. It’s for the Vienna people, for a good night.

Ich glaub ich hab n Blaustich

Is there something sweeter than crossing a 8€ velvia and pay 16€ for the cross processing and get fucking blue toned negatives ? It ridiculous how the labs here treat the customers that still shoot film. They crop the prints without asking, cut the negatives the wrong way or fucking tone them blue (never had that at the cheap drugstore). Yes, I’m moping around but 16€ is fucking ridiculous.

I did a few shots from the prints with the nikon and of course did a color correction.

me and nico met to get away from the desks, enjoy the sun a fresh drink and test the lightmeter of my himatic. actually it was quite sad… yes my lightmeter is so off and sadly we found out that nico’s himatic has also problems with the lightmeter.

Ari took that one, yes blurred but it’s not her fault, it’s mine. It’s from the digital shot. Didn’t wanted to take another one…

Back to the desk, back to work…

Cheers

Gallerie post #2

Okay, after the second crash I get really annoyed by this gallery posting. WordPress also doesn’t know how to post two galleries in one article, so here is the second one.

Also taken on fancy 400 ISO supermarket film, probably the german kodak farbwelt 400, don’t know about the english version of farbwelt but who cares anyway..

Again wrong order :/

Sorry about this terrible preview shit ! Can someone please turn it off for me or tell me how to do it ?

Gallery post

As you can see, I got a new design for this blog. I didn’t liked the old one anymore, way to dusty I thik. Since the design has changed wordpress is insanely slow, maybe it’s just my computer or my internet connection but I don’t think so. Because of this new design I want to give you another update. No fancy pictures this time, just random shots from two rolls of film I shot in April

I start with the 200 ISO Fuji, just supermarket film.

I Don’t know how do give it a real order but this gallery button makes posting it a lot easier. The café pics are from Osnabrück, later on it’s Hamburg and a few pictures from Kiel as well.

Walls

I was walking around north Manchester found this area quite interesting. I’ve seen a lot of abandoned houses and scruffy places. Unlike Germany, where most of the streets and houses are very this was an interesting place, walls full of old logos and markers. This afternoon was just like a rush, I couldn’t stop discovering. It was the very first time that I was driven by my geographical instict and my photographic passion. I decided to start a series of walls…

Band on the Wall

Big Giant Poo Stain

Rot-Bau

Diamond Trade

GTX

Grün

Euro Clothing

Jesus Army

Broken

Reds

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Secured (not part of the series)

Self Drive Truck (not part of the series)

The one with Pangea Festival and the last hours

Hello Again,

I had another look at all the the pictures that I took in Manchester. It’s so much stuff, that I totall got lost in it. I guess it must have been 50 rolls of film, so ask me where this or that photograph is… or at least a special event. I have no clue. Yesterday I saw that the one from the Pangea Festival looks quite okay (regarded to the strange development mistakes). It’s all TriX +2 in HC110; taken with the XD7 and the 50/1.4.

Good, guessed exposure, yay.

same camera setting, turned out different than I thought that moment.

Teenage Bad Girl getting ready for their set

I needed an extra stop…

I was so loud up there but I really enjoyed myself standing at the podium and see the crazy crowd

…at least I focused his arm

In the Pangea TV studio while my housemate is presenting

Now there is a cut. I stoped shooting film that night because I needed to get some filming done that night. It was really cool - first time that I had a “real” film-camera like that that. If I wasn’t a photo-geek I could Imagine myself doing sophisticated short films, but… no.

The next frames are from JJ’s last hours in Manchester. He just returned from a trip to Ungary, the next morning he had to fly back to Montevideo. Last night hanging out…

My other flatmate Mr. C

Mrs. S will probably kill me and say “Hanno, this his a horrible picture, uch”

JJ

The cool x700

I still can hear them argue

The goodbye frame…

…goodbye

help the aged

i don’t know what i did wrong so i need help from you guys.  first i thought i just did one mistake but now since i scanned a lot of other rolls i saw that something must be wrog…

These are typical examples of the crappy development that I got from the last rolls. This film is Kodak TMX 400 in HC-110. It’s almost the direct result that I got from the scanner. Just resized. Camera was as always a Minolta XD7 and a 35/2.8 MD Rokkor lens.

Maybe HC-110 isn’t the best developer for TMAX but I think this picture

was also done in HC110 and TMAX. I’m not 100% sure…  grain, contrast and sharpness look very different.

I can’t tell you what I did wrong since i have the impression that i did every right… but i’ll tell you about the development:

- HC110 (1+31) 20°C in a JOBO 4 Roll Tank for 6 Minutes

- 20°C warm water to stop the process (4 moves)

- Adofix for 6 Minutes

- Water

- Final wash in distilled water

- …and yes i used these rubber things to get rid of water at this film (after these scratch i stopped using it)

Maybe the chemical-temerature wasn’t exact 20°C or maybe it’s the big JOBO tank (4 roll tank) normally I use a small 2 roll tank. Do I have to shake it more often (more then every 30 seconds 4 times) or are the chemicals (the HC110) bad, it’s looks kind old ?!

Please help

Tomorrow I’ll do 2 testrolls in d76 to check the difference with the last 8 rolls from Manchester…

manchester film - pt. 1

first: it sees like if planes are time machines. since i’m back in germany time is running. the first week i spent a lot of time developing film in an ad-lib darkroom - between boiler room and laundry. i couldn’t finish all rolls but a lot. i guess there are just 8 left which means just two processes in the big tank. then it’s done.

i also scanned a lot of negatives and had a quick look, sorted out some of the photographs i like and here they are…

this was during christmas, ari on the marketplace in my hometown… almost straight from the scanner.

the opposite way… ari took a photograph of me.

APX 100 in HC110

? - This was in January on the way to the library. Just liked it…

Portland Street

Walls in Manchester. One day I had the idea of doing pictures of walls in Manchester. I saw pretty cool ones… oh, seems like if i need a ugly photographers vest like this so i can walk around all day and shoot walls. oh god…but you’ll see my collection of walls.

i don’t know why but people are throwing leftovers in the parks, streets and alleyways… whhhooo

…oh and junk as well

1672543 - greetings from mrs. feist

really liked that scene

the legendary Milverton Road

cool bike on campus

WWF

percy sister

an old man sending a text

mcr, just something to remember the city

two guys in yellow taking a rest…

walking down rusholme

the sharpness of the tmax really surprised me

sharing the darkroom of the photosociety with hundreds of others isn’t fun, still this gave me a smile

this is me in my so overpriced travelodge room in birmingham… pictures of that event are coming soon as well.

i’ll update this blog as soon as i developed all the rolls, to make sure i didn’t miss anything.

chester

this week ari was here in manchester. we had so much fun, did a lot of cool things. so the new 18-70 works fine, even if it´s such a change to shoot f3.5 / f4.5 , what the hell

getting ready - explore the city

i want to have a picture of me in my street. played a but with colors - this is the result

fooling around - of course

i´m not fooling

haha, it was fun…

this is not fun. some areas are so run down…

back to primark - hat 2 GBP, it´s ridiculous cheap…

didn´t bought it…

…even if both of us can wear it, mr. bogart

one of our favorite places in manchester. TROF, what a strange name but the food is amazing and the rest too. lots of cool people and good music

ari in the beautiful city of chester

sweet girl, sweet cam

this was the view - tourist picture

puh after this culture shock we needed a coffee

mr. bogart

old woman in an old street

ari saw that. trash in front of a bin not in it - that´s england

river art ?!

thank god we didn´t checked in this hotel

actually chester is really nice but i didn´t wanted to upload all these tourist pictures…

so just 14 days left :/

it´s strange