Saturday, January 26, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Some statue that was on my way
Moskva 2 + Ilford Hp5 + Rodinal 1/200
Jardin Botanico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
A new set of drums has reserved me for now so lets see how it goes with these updates..
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Kat! Im a Kitty Kat! And I meow meow meow..
Moskva 2 + Ilford Hp5 + Rodinal 1/200
Jardin Botanico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Friday, January 11, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Studio Holga
Holga 120N with a RF -flash trigger and a close-up attachment made from empty toilet paper rolls. Allmost looks like a real camera.
Holga Close-ups
Holga + Hoya close-up lenses + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200
Some selfportraits taken with a brand new Holga. This one has a hot shoe for flash.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Beach life
Nikonf F50 + Tamron AF 19-35mm / Nikkor 1.8 50mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200
Villa Gesell, Argentina
Voi voi lazy me. Shitloads of pictures to process but no motivation. voivoivvoivoivi
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200
Villa Gesell, Argentina
Voi voi lazy me. Shitloads of pictures to process but no motivation. voivoivvoivoivi
Monday, December 24, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Untitled 666
Recently posted picture now revisited after darkroom. Eventhough the flash speed was wrong I like this one. Its like this black wall is eating Vika or something.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Rosedal, BsAs
Holga + Ilford HP5 + Rodinal 1/200
El rosedal de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Great thing about BW film is that it can take amazing amounts of under & over exposure.
Like in this picture here, scenery was a delight for human eye but light conditions were terrible. Subject is in the shadows whilst the background is bathing in hard midday sun. This combined with Holga which has only 2 shutter speeds (bulb & about 1/250) would probably end up in a catastrophy without the flexibility of modern films. If relying on automatics of my film scanner the end result would be something shown on the 2 small examples, dark or washed-up.
Someone has said that all the needed information is in the negative, you just have to know how to dig it out. One could probably do this digging easier with photoshop but you wont find info about that here. Instead this is how i did it.
First of all I like to develop my films with stand developing. That means long developing time with weak dilution. This way negative comes out smooth, low contrast and with as much of information stored as possible, making it easy to manipulate in darkroom.
Recipe for stand developing i prefer is Rodinal 1 + water 200 (20°C) for about 2 hours. I've done the same with Tmax -dev, then its Tmax 1 + 32 water, but this picture here is with Rodinal.
1. Base exposure, 10 seconds with filter no. 5 to bring out the details of the under exposed main subject (Vika) and the pole Vika is leaning to.
2. 6 seconds with filter no. 3 whilts masking the main subject all the time. This brings out the leafs and the masking prevents the main subject from becoming too dark.
3. Base exposure, 2 seconds with filter no. 3. This adds to the leafs and also gives Vika's skin and the pole some tone.
4. Burning through a hole with filter no. 00 for about 2 mins. Brings out the water and palm trees.
5. Same as phase 4 but about 30 seconds burning around this area.
Masking in this picture might be bit rough but after all its Holga art so if its somewhere near its good enough.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Glass coaster self-portrait
This test stripe of a self-portrait has served as a glass coaster for the past 4? months. Never liked it so it was never finished. Tonight im wondering why.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Between the lines
Nikon F50 + Nikkor 35-135mm
+ Tri-X 400 + Rodinal 1/200
Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Friday, December 14, 2007
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