Uploads from Thomas ♫

Little world

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:26:25 -0700

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From the same roll as my next to last upload.
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Rolleiflex SL66, Zeiss Planar 80mm, expired Kodak Portra 160VC

V

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:35:48 -0700

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I just love canola fields in full bloom.
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Meopta Flexaret VII, expired Fuji Superia 100

First leaves

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:57:46 -0700

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This is an older image from the first roll with the Rolleiflex SL66. Back then I didn't know that the shutter makes an uneven exposure at 1/1000s and 1/500s . So the lower part of the image is quite underexposed. But know I like the texture that the expired Portra and the underexposure produce.
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Rolleiflex SL66, Zeiss Planar 80mm, expired Kodak Portra 160VC

Spring on the balcony

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:01:24 -0700

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Hey guys, I'm still hanging around here and thought it's time for a poppy-color spring image. I hope everyone on the northern hemisphere is able to enjoy the beauty of spring as well :)

I missed flickr a lot during the last weeks, but due to some trouble while the change of my internet provider, I was without an internet connection at home for almost a month. I was stil able to check mails at work, but that was it. To be honest, this time wasn't that bad because I learned to focus on things in real life a bit more, instead of checking the rss-feeds of the ~200 photography blogs I followed. I think I will not start reading this blogs again and instead use the time for the development of my photography. The downside of this? Now I'm having a huge scanning backlog... but that's another story. Thanks for reading, I'm now making my round through all your streams - wait, what did I just wrote about the focus on real life... :D

Agfa Isola II through the eye of Rolleiflex SL66

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:36:18 -0700

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As my last two uploads have been photographed with the Isola, I thought I should share an image of it.

Angry Birds

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:14:13 -0800

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The second keeper of my Agfa Isola II test roll. This happened all so quickly that I had no time for proper focusing. Together with the shutter speed of 1/30th this makes quite a blurry image, but I like all the action.
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Agfa Isola II, Kodak Portra 160NC

Winter in Herrenhausen

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:07:53 -0800

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This is from the first roll that I shot with the Agfa Isola II. I bought this camera originally for a pinhole conversion, but it was in such a marvellous condition that I decided to use her as she is. I'm pretty impressed what this little and light weight medium format camera is capable of. I wasn't sure if there is a real difference between the two available shutter speeds but all images turned out well exposed :) Though I have to practise guess focusing at close distances a bit more (you'll see that in my next upload).

As much as I love to shoot with my analog cameras, scanning color negative film is still a challenge. This time I scanned the negative as positive and inverted/color corrected the image in Photoshop. Mayve I'll stick to this method as it worked quite well.

Thanks for reading :)
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Agfa Isola II, Kodak Portra 160NC

Lines and dots

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:17:50 -0800

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I can't believe it's March already, February went by so fast.
In the meantime I recreated my messed up still life session that you heard of in my last post (thanks again for the encouraging comments) and I finished the first roll with the Agfa Isola 2.
And now it's time for catching up with some streams :)

D'oh!

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:41:32 -0800

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Well, I guess it is never too late for beginner's mistakes. Those who use medium format film probably noticed that this film is spooled inside out. It seems that I loaded the film accidentally the wrong way in the Rollfeiflex SL66 and hence only the backing paper was "exposed". So now there are 12 nice images of a still life photo session that only exist in my head, sigh...

Winter

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 03:59:01 -0800

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I'm a bit late but nevertheless: Happy new year flickr friends! My biggest photographic resolution for 2013 is to photograph more regularly and without too much self-criticism. Perhaps this year's uploads will be black&white only, but I'm not sure about that yet.
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Brenizered out of 10 images with Leica M8 and Summicron-M 50mm/f:2

Perplexity

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:20:48 -0800

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Hey flickr, it has been a while since my last visit. But during the last weeks I spent more time playing my guitar rather than taking pictures. The main reason is that I'm a bit at a loss about how to proceed with my photography. I'm a person that doesn't like to repeat itself photographically, but that's what I actually did for the last three years. I took that same shallow dof/big bokeh/creamy tones/pretty sunlight/fence/flare/brenizer/[insert more popular flickr groups here] shots over and over again. Some of them came out nicely but, let's be honest, most of them are trivial crap - which was okay at that time, when all I wanted was some virtual attention and comments/favs. But now it's time to do something different and move on photographically. Right now the hard part is to figure out what this last sentence actually means and if there's a message I want to say with my photography.

I will experiment a lot within the next weeks but probably won't upload any of the results this year. However, I will stop by from time to time and visit my favourite streams.

Angry bunny in the dark?!

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:58:22 -0700

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Am I seeing ghosts or was there an angy looking giant bunny in the background?
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Leica M3, Summicron-M 1:2/50mm, Kodak BW400 CN

Calluna vulgaris

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:32:16 -0700

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No autumn without heather :)

Leica Summicron-M 1:2/50mm vs. Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4/50mm

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:48:09 -0700

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Just for fun a comparison of my smallest and my largest 50mm lens. Ok, 35mm rangefinder vs. medium format is a bit unfair...
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Rolleiflex SL66, Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm, Kodak Portra 400VC

Early autumn flare

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:52:51 -0700

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Sweet jesus I just love the flares that the 50mm Summicron produces <3. I showed this one in the comments a long time ago but I think it deserves an own post. HBW!

Autumn ahead

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:33:58 -0700

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The days become shorter and the nights get colder. It seems that autumn is near. This image was shot on b&w film but I played a bit with quadruplex toning in photoshop.
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Leica M3, Summicron-M 1:2/50mm, Kodak BW 400CN

Summer bench

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:22:27 -0700

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I finally found the time to scan some film. This image is actually the combination of two shots: I couldn't decide between the portrait or the landcape version and ended up merging both images in Photoshop. HBM!
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Leica M3, Summicron-M 1:2/50mm, dm Paradies 400 film

After the rain, Pt 2

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:21:31 -0700

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I guess the sun could be a bit rounder... :)
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Meopta Flexaret VII with Flexpar 0.3-0.5m close-up lens, Kodak Portra 160NC

After the rain

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 07:02:30 -0700

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Meopta Flexaret VII, Kodak Portra 160NC

Belated spring

nobody@flickr.com (Thomas ♫) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:56:55 -0700

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I'm a bit late with my spring pics this year...
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Meopta Flexaret VII, Flexpar 0.3-0.5m close-up lens, 10 year expired Fuji Superia 100