A new take on an old Theme!
I admit… this is digital!
Yes, there it is, that ugly word! But these are photos anyways.
And I wanted to grab the opportunity to compare them to the same subjects, treated with film.
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Black and White from the Street
Nothing fancy today, just three snaps I made the other day in Luxembourg City, on a very nice, cold and sunny winter’s day.
First one is kind of a Luxembourgish insider thing. Get it?
The Best Camera is NOT the one You have with You!
I think it was good old Ansel Adams
who said that ‘the best camera is the one you have with you’
Heaven forbid that I could doubt the wisdom of such a master photographer, but in this point, to my very humble opinion, I think he was wrong.
In many years of G.A.S. driven camera changes I have noticed one thing. It might only be true for myself but I think it’s pretty relevant.
If the best camera was the one that’s always with me I’d need no specific camera!
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When using old Cameras…
…you can get bitterly disappointed!
I made the experience just now. One of my three remaining ‘trusty’ cameras has just given up on me.
Bummer it’s the beautiful Spotmatic…
Color or Black & White Processing
…and no, this is not about the use of these two film types. This is rather about how I process the negatives. More precisely about the difference of said processing.
As you might know, despite a nice and promising test with bathroom-turned-darkroom-printing some months back, time and space force me to rely on scanning my negatives. I would have loved to push with wet printing on and refine my technique (or try to even work out a technique in a first time) but it is simply not doable.
So it was back to scanning. A little less time consuming as darkroom work and much easier on the other people of my household who can use the bathroom as needed.
He’s Back!
Winter’s Colors
While I’m working on a longish post detailing my processing I just wanted to ramble on a bit about my perception of Winter’s Colors.
The Bright Side of Winter
My last post got some nice comments, and one of them, by ronian42 reminded me that winter is also the moment of nice, bright, low sunlight, lending structure and definition to any mundane objects.
How very true!
Winter is Fading…
Seems that at last this wet and sloppy winter is starting to go away.
Of course it will try to show that it’s still with us for some time, but it’s certainly on the way out.
Cold and Dark
So some of you wanted me to make more snow photos in the comments to this post…
Of course I will comply. I will do anything for you… within limits. And the limits were quite surpassed this morning.
Winter – Silence
About a Camera… again!
Yes, this is again about one of my three remaining cameras. About the smallest of them and the one I took most of my preferred photos with.
The glorious Olympus XA2
Of course I could go on about it’s great, sharp lens. About it’s very accurate exposure system.
Frank Lehnen Photography 