Week 20: Gräfenstein Castle again ...
This week I show you another image of Gräfenstein Castle, a bench and a window of the main building (if you can still call it building). It is a lith print done on Adox Fineprint Classic FB. This image is not scanned. Since it is on 12×16" paper I had to photograph it with my digital gadget. The price I have to pay for the bigger print. I will try it on some smaller paper and see how prominent the lith grain gets on the smaller sized image.
Week 21: Landesbank Baden-Württemberg ...
It has been some time that I was in the darkroom. It is busy times and I spent my evenings sitting at the computer, doing conference calls with others and getting things to work. No time for the darkroom.
But yesterday I took the chance and came out of the darkroom with three lith prints that I liked. I will show you two of them today and one which is a little bit special next week. Honestly, the print I am going to show next week will in my opinion be the best print I showed on this blog so far. I like it very much and I hope you also will like it. Stay tuned.
So the two images for today - two weeks ago I visited an exhibition of Barbara Klemm in Karlsruhe together with some colleges from the local camera club. The show was great, I like many of her images.
After the show we went to the building of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. I took some pinhole images there. What you see above is the entrace of the parking garage. It is an Ω-lith print done on Fomatone MG FB. The side print shows the entrance of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. There is some story to tell about this print. When I finished it and closed the shutter I saw a security car arriving and parking in front of the door. The gesturing security guy seemed as if he wanted to talk to me. So I thought, OK, now I have to explain to the guy that photographing from public ground is allowed etc. So I went to him and asked if he minds me taking photographs here. But he responded, oh, that is perfectly OK with him, photographing from public ground is allowed, he just wanted to know if he is in my way and if he should park somewhere else.
OK, back to the prints. It is pretty difficult to get the real feel of these prints through the scanning process. They show a kind of greenish color in the shadows and go over into a reddish lilac in the midtones just to arrive at an orange yellow in the highlights. I like that colorish images after days and days and evenings and evenings of gray work time.
I will be back next week.
Week 22: Parking Garage - All the Way Up
So here is this weeks image. This is an image that I am really lucky with. In my opinion it is my best pinhole of the year so far. You may be of a different opinion and that is OK. The image is - as last weeks images - an Ω-lith print on Fomatone MG FB. It shows a view of the inside of the parking garage. I stood inside the circular ramp and had the camera pointing to the ceiling. Due to the loss of detail because of the pinhole this image got really abstract and the lith does help with this, as it shows really nice grainy shadows and a lot of glow in the highlights.
Week 23: Forggensee
Last week I was in Schwangau, near Füssen with my family. We had a lot of rain and decided to not stay for the whole week. But at least there were also some hours without rain, or at least without heavy rain. So my camera got only slightly wet during the 20 seconds exposure of Forggensee. This is a normal print on Ilford Warmtone FB with a light sulfur toning. So, no lith or kallitype or other stuff for this weeks image.
Week 24: Forggensee - another one ...
This is another image of Lake Forggensee. It is from the same jetty that I took the first one, but this time another direction and so that the jetty is actually in the image. The town you can see in the background is Füssen, a nice little town at the lake with many old buildings and a castle. Well, you do not see too much of it, the white pixels on the left is a small sailing boat and Füssen itself is really only some white pixels in this digital version. On the right you can see an image I took in Füssen. I must say that I was not too inspired when I was there and it was more of a family vacation than a photo trip. So my time was limited. Both images are lith prints, done on Fomatone MG FB with a pretty strong (lith wise) developer. So development times were short (lith wise) and there so is not so much color since I did not use the Ω-lith bath.
Week 25: Two Observers ...
Now this is from a day trip to Strassbourg, a nice french town near the German border, or should I say at the french border. Since it was a family trip there was not much time to take some pinholes. Honestly, I took exactly two and this is the one of the two that I like. It is a detail at the main entrance to the Münster. I was chatting with the parents of the kid trying to stand still for some time. They were interested in that small wooden box which first attracted the little boy.
The story about this image, while chatting the boys dad asked me "Who the heck is still using film and pinhole cameras?" Well, what is the answer for that? Obviously: me!
Week 26: A Little Flower ...
Needed a birthday present for a friend, thought she might like a flower ... and she did. Phew!