Inside and outside, buildings | Sunny 16 #2 (Set 1/6)

maipenquynh on 7. July 2022

Although I’m not sure what it was that I wanted to express with the photos of the windows and whether it should like how it looks now on the pictures (up to 50 % being completely black), I think they convey a certain atmosphere. Especially the one where the handle is in the middle of the picture is nice to me. The contrast catches me.

A few months ago a friend who just entered the world of analogue photography, and I went on a small photography tour. Typography fascinates me and that’s how „Allerlei am Markt“ („Potpourri at the marketplace“) got on my film. Unfortunately the words are not in focus (I’m on my way to fix the root cause) and I am not completely content how I captured the words. 66c doesn’t have a particular meaning to me. It was typography as well which made me shooting this.

And last but not least: Görgesbau. Every building on the campus of TU Dresden has its own name, ending with -bau (building) and actually I had the idea to photograph all buildings, or the their names to be more precise. But so far, this remained an idea only.

Görgesbau was a photographical surprise to me! It was dawning already and I was afraid that it could be too dark already to shoot a proper photo. Nonetheless, I gave it a try – I had a film with ISO 400 in my camera and thought this is not the worst condition to shoot at dawn. When I saw the result, I clapped myself on the back for estimating the light kind of correct. And I don’t have to mention the typography, do I?

Is there a photo which touches you in any way?

Hard facts! Camera: Minolta 9000 AF, Minolta AF 50 mm f/1.4 and Minolta AF Macro 100 mm f/2.8 | Film: Kodak T-MAX 400 | Development & Scan: Fotolabor Görner Dresden

Sunny 16 #2 | Einleitung

maipenquynh on 3. July 2022

Noch bevor ich in die Pause ging, war meine 2. Filmrolle, gefüllt mithilfe der Sunny 16-Regel, fertig. Ich erinnere mich noch, wie aufgeregt ich war, als ich kurz davor war mir die Scans der Positiven anzuschauen. Hatte das damals sogar dokumentiert, hier ein kleiner Auszug davon:

„Aaaaach, ich weiß nicht was ich erwarte… natürlich hoffe ich, dass da ein paar richtig coole Sachen dabei sind, aber gleichzeitig versuche ich mich zum ‚Keep cool‘-Denken zu bewegen und nicht zu viel zu erwarten.“

Also alles wie immer, wenn ich die Ergebnisse meines entwickelten Films dann endlich in der Hand (physisch oder im übertragenen Sinne) halte.

Wie schon im lernlogbuch #1 erwähnt, war es diesmal ein Schwarzweißfilm. Das bringt ganz eigene Herausforderungen mit sich: „Und ob die Motive überhaupt gut waren für SW-Fotos?“. Einige Motive eignen sich besser für Farbfotos, einige Motive eben mehr für SW-Fotos. Und das zu lernen, ist eine spannende Herausforderung. Irgendwann sieht man bestimmte Dinge tatsächlich mit anderen Augen: Die Farbe immer mehr subtrahierend und stattdessen rücken Strukturen, Licht und Schatten in den Vordergrund. Es dauerte gar nicht so lang, bis ich mich an den Gedanken der Grautöne gewöhnte.

Wie beim letzten Sunny 16-Versuch (Sunny 16 #1-Reihe), will ich auch diesmal meine Ergebnisse präsentieren und meine Gedanken dazupacken. Ich habe alle Fotos mehrmals durchgesehen, in 6 Sets gepackt und mir Notizen gemacht. Peu à peu werde ich sie wieder posten.

Ich freue mich, wenn du mir dann deine Eindrücke da lässt!

Noch von meiner Sunny 16 Runde #1. / From my first round of Sunny 16.

 

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Back! with a repaired piece of work

maipenquynh on 15. May 2022

It’s like starting a new blog. How do I begin? How to say Hello?

If you’ve started a blog once – or wanted to fill something with life which was empty before such as a notebook, a sketch book, then you may know this feeling of respect for the first symbol. Whether it’s a full-stop, a number, a line.

To my surprise, I do feel that today as well. Though I was only having a break.

In the meantime I did this and that. Hopefully some things will make it on the blog eventually. I wished to find a focus for the blog but this didn’t happen. But I also didn’t look for one to be honest. Time just flew and now it’s mid May 2022. I thought about the blog a few times and there were a lot of topics when I tought „I definitely want to bring THIS topic on my blog!“. I still don’t have a proper schedule for my blog though I think that would be really nice. There are a lot of things which would be nice regarding my blog. But planning and organizing takes time and energy. And it seems that this is not what it should be right now.

Today, I don’t only welcome back myself on my blog but I also bring something else along which is my most current repaired piece of work. Freshly darned on the couch! I mended a sock (again), started yesterday and this spot here took around 5 to 6 hours. That sounds like quite a while but I really enjoyed the time and in my opinion darning is some kind of meditation (like other handicrafts) therefore this number of time just remains a plain number to me.

Repairing culture is something I’m really fascinated by, in every way and I also think that repairing is healing. Not only for the piece to be repaired but also for myself. It’s like this feeling when you create something with your own hands and feet.

But on top, there’s this feeling of taking away the pain because you cared about the spot that has hurt.

I know it got a bit dramatic😄

I’m at the beginning of getting to know how to repair clothes and other textiles (such as the zippers of bed linen). But in general I think every kind of repairing and thereby bringing new life into an existing piece is super cool! Working with wood stuff! Repairing a bicycle!

Have you ever repaired something or brought it to someone else for repairing? Do you want to be able to repair more or do you think that it’s okay that things come to an end eventually?

PS: Although the colour of the sock is different in the photos, it is the same one. There’s still some work regarding my „documentary“ photos 😀