Samba-Carnival, Bremen 2009

[Florian1234]

Last weekend there was the annual Samba-Carnival in my hometown.
These are some of my results from going there to the crowds of people, feeling the samba drums in the stomach, looking at all the colours - and trying to find some order in the apparently chaotic stream and situations.
Comments are very welcome (or go to my flickr-space).
I hope they are not too big to look at them here on the board...

All with Leica M4, Jupiter-12 2.8/35 lens. APX 400 film in D76 1+1 and scanned with a Epson V500.

I still have one and a half rolls of Tri-X waiting to be developed, since the second one isn't finished and I want to soup them toghether. - So there's more to come in some days, I hope.

 

[Uwe_Nds]

The J-12 did very well!
I in particular like the 3rd one with the elderly gentleman in the background not being sure whether to enjoy the carnival or not. 🙂

Cheers,
Uwe

 

[JT2007]

Even in street photography one should not forget composition to make interesting pictures. Opening up the aperture might help in otherwise confusing background scenes. Finding and highlighting a subject(s) for a picture is vital.

You seem to approach people with your camera very straightforward which is very important for a person doing street photography.

Using color film would have maybe made your pictures interesting considering the vivid colors in the typically colorless winter day in northern Europe. Don't get me wrong I totally understand and share the affinity for b&w but I think color could have worked well with colorful subjects in otherwise grey scenes.

Heh.. as a sidenote: german samba looks pretty cold, absurd and strange! What's up with the scary masks and troll-like costumes? Fun idea to play the samba in the cold though!

 

[FrankS]

Samba is a recent addition to this Spring festival, isn't it?

http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/lote/german/links/topics/karneval.htm

 

[crawdiddy]

Using color film would have maybe made your pictures interesting considering the vivid colors in the typically colorless winter day in northern Europe. Don't get me wrong I totally understand and share the affinity for b&w but I think color could have worked well with colorful subjects in otherwise grey scenes.

Heh.. as a sidenote: german samba looks pretty cold, absurd and strange! What's up with the scary masks and troll-like costumes? Fun idea to play the samba in the cold though!

The above comments are interesting, but I disagree about the B&W film. The weather is grey (apparently cold), and that's what you get with Tri-X. I agree about the strangeness of Samba in Bremen, with overcast clouds, frigid temps, witch hats, skeleton masks. This is Carnavale in Bremen, not Rio de Janeiro (we've all seen that-- it's hot, colorful, sexy). Carnavale in Bremen is completely different. It's monochrome, dreary, but still bizarre. Think Mike Myers (Dieter of "Sprockets".) "Do you want to touch my monkey?" I like these photos.

More, please?

 

[Teus]

I like this one very much:

 

[Florian1234]

Thanks for the comments so far.
I understand that using colour film would have been good at some stages of this event. But I wanted to concentrate on the people and therefore used b&w film.

I hope to finish the current roll of Tri-X which is still in the camera. After developing it and the fourth roll I'll be able to show some more. 🙂