Week 33: Wissembourg again ...
Rather late this week ... cough cough ... The print was done in time, but then I had not the time to do the scanning.
So this is what happens when you are not quite right prepared. I had my little tripod with me but forgot the cable release. With long exposure times that is not a problem. But here with rather short exposure times, camera shake can be a problem. So this image is a bit more blurry than a usual image with the Zero2000 is. But I like it anyway.
Needless to say, when being in Alsace you have to try the food there. We were in a restaurant and had some local speciality: Baeckeoffe. I would have liked to show you an image of it, but we were hungry and the long exposure time of the pinhole camera ... OK, at least I show you the plate after I had Baeckeoffe on the right.
And you can see on the left, we had some wine too.
All images are (and that is unusual for me) normal prints on ADOX Vario Classic FB, no lith developer involved here. But they are toned in sulfur and selenium toner.
Week 34: Mercedes Benz Museum Stuttgart ...
We have a friend visiting us, so we had another day trip, this time to Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart. I am not that interested in cars, but the building is architectural interesting. So I went for some shots showing the building rather than the cars. Here is one, and next week there will be another one.
Week 35: Mercedes Benz Museum Stuttgart (second) ...
Here is the other image from Mercedes Benz Museum I want to show. I liked the architecture, most of the other people there enjoyed the cars more. And I think if you are interested in cars, especially old cars and fast cars, you should visit this Museum.
Week 36: Reichstag Berlin ...
I visited Reichstag in Berlin with my family. Reichstag is the seat of Germanys parliament - Bundestag.
There is always a long line of people wanting to see the building. There are 3 million people per year visiting that building. Most of them just to see the dome put on top of the building. While standing in the line I took the chance to take a few pinhole shots.
Since the last weeks have been a bit short of side prints, this week I want to show you three of them. All done at the entrance of the Reichstag building.
When I browsed through my stock of paper I found that there still is a box of Fomabrom Variant. I was never very successful with this paper and lith developer.
So I thought (like several times in the past) let's give it a last try - the last try. Since the paper has a tendency to have pretty chaotic infectious development I tried it without any additive (so no bromide and sulfide). And I also used it very diluted (1+50) in warm lith developer. With this setup the paper needed only a bit of overexposure (1 or 1.5 stop). And this time it worked out pretty well - in my opinion.
Week 37: Reichstag Dome ...
Now last week you saw some images of the outside of Reichstag, this week I will show you some images from inside the Dome. I also thought that these images should go with a bit less grain.
And it was a really tough decision for me since I like this weeks side prints as much as I like the one I decided to be the image of the week. Maybe I should have splitted them up to cover three weeks, but that would have been too much Reichstag. So here is this weeks image and also give the side print a closer look.
Compared to last weeks images you can see how different lith prints may come out with a little bit different setup of the developer and a different paper.
Week 38: Pinakothek der Moderne ...
During this years summer vacation we also visited Munich. And there we went to Pinakothek der Moderne where besides all the art work I was also interested in the architecture of the building itself.
Unfortunately I was not allowed to take my little Gorillapod in because tripods were not allowed - no matter how small they are. At some places people are really serious about rules, but at least I was allowed to photograph. So I had to find locations where I could sit down the little Zero2000 to take the image which was quite a bit of restriction.
This weeks photograph shows one of those images where a tripod would have made it much easier. So the camera was sitting on a balustrade and leaning at a wall. I was fortunate that I could do the image without camera shake.
All images shown in this post are lith prints on Fomatone MG FB. The first side print shows the same negative as this weeks image, but with not enough exposure, so the blacks went a bit too deep. This weeks image is the second try on that negative, this time with more exposure and the lith developer aged by one print. That resulted in a much more colorful image. And I think the color very much supports the subject.
The other side prints show the entrace to the building (well, one entrance to the building) and the ceiling of the main hall, with the camera again sitting on a balustrade.
Week 39: Pier ...
This week I do not have any side prints, just the image of the pier which I photographed while having a stop in Lindau at Lake Constance.
As in the weeks before, a lith print on Fomatone MG FB.