maxmuenster
Newbie
Ok, this is actually not the very first roll i put through my rangefinder, it's the third - but these are the first results to be published so far.
i really would like to show some stuff from the first two films, but those rolls were slides and i didnt have the time/money/equipment to get them digitalized. so what you see here, are cheap scans from our hp all-in-one office printerscannerhwhatever - contactprints 10x15cm in size, scanned at 300dpi.
high quality scans as you correctly assume.
the film was relabeled 400 ISO fuji from a local grocery store chain. certainly not a relabeled superia i would guess looking at the colors.
however, about the most important part, the pictures:
i was at the birthdayparty of my grandmother's (75th) and left the boring conversations at the kitchentable soon after coffee and cake, to start a photographic journey through the house. i used to live in this house until my 6th birthday, we then moved to our own house - i assume living in the same house as his mother in law wasnt quite easy at times for my father. we left the rooms empty, and my grandparents renovated them.
the rooms are not in use at this moment, empty and even freshly painted - the more suprising it was for me to still recognize some kind of secureness - even though i havent put a foot inside those rooms for good 12 years.
the feeling of standing in an totally empty, perfectly renovated, with the scent of fresh paint in the air, something that would seem strangely sterile to must people, but still recognizing the room itself, evoking memories from my childhood (sitting at the kitchentable, swallowing that lego-brick, etc.) was so surreal, i just had to take pictures of those empty, yet familiar rooms.
the other pictures are just plain looks outside of the windows and of the abandoned flat of my dead great-grandmother.
working with a rangefinder in this situation was really a revelation - it was just so extremely intuitive working with the cam, something my fuji s5 pro would never give me in this situation.
i'm quite sure, that these pictures cannot transport what i was experiencing in those rooms - i hope i could just make my personal approach into rangefinderphotography visible.
bessa r2a + vc ultron 35 1.7
regards,
max
i really would like to show some stuff from the first two films, but those rolls were slides and i didnt have the time/money/equipment to get them digitalized. so what you see here, are cheap scans from our hp all-in-one office printerscannerhwhatever - contactprints 10x15cm in size, scanned at 300dpi.
high quality scans as you correctly assume.
the film was relabeled 400 ISO fuji from a local grocery store chain. certainly not a relabeled superia i would guess looking at the colors.
however, about the most important part, the pictures:
i was at the birthdayparty of my grandmother's (75th) and left the boring conversations at the kitchentable soon after coffee and cake, to start a photographic journey through the house. i used to live in this house until my 6th birthday, we then moved to our own house - i assume living in the same house as his mother in law wasnt quite easy at times for my father. we left the rooms empty, and my grandparents renovated them.
the rooms are not in use at this moment, empty and even freshly painted - the more suprising it was for me to still recognize some kind of secureness - even though i havent put a foot inside those rooms for good 12 years.
the feeling of standing in an totally empty, perfectly renovated, with the scent of fresh paint in the air, something that would seem strangely sterile to must people, but still recognizing the room itself, evoking memories from my childhood (sitting at the kitchentable, swallowing that lego-brick, etc.) was so surreal, i just had to take pictures of those empty, yet familiar rooms.
the other pictures are just plain looks outside of the windows and of the abandoned flat of my dead great-grandmother.
working with a rangefinder in this situation was really a revelation - it was just so extremely intuitive working with the cam, something my fuji s5 pro would never give me in this situation.
i'm quite sure, that these pictures cannot transport what i was experiencing in those rooms - i hope i could just make my personal approach into rangefinderphotography visible.
bessa r2a + vc ultron 35 1.7
regards,
max
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