// Files
This morning I did some research on older street photographs of mine. Amongst other it took me to
this one and I realized, that I just couldn’t find the original file any more. Kinda sad, because I think it’s a good shot. Plus… since 2004 my skills in editing increased a little - now, I won’t just convert it to grayscale mode and that’s it. I did some pp on it just to have a slight sight on how it could have looked if I still had the file, but of course it’s only a crappy jpg. Too bad.
Anyway… if I shot this on film, I probably wouldn’t have this problem. I’m curious if in the future I’ll still have all my digital photos I take nowadays.
I just found the usb cable to connect my cellphone to my notebook so I transferred some snaps I did in 2007/08. I worked in a company that manufactures couches - totally in contrast to what I do now a few months later.
It was not a bad job, but I’m really glad I chose to go to a university to study photography. I really hope I don’t have to go back beeing only a little plant in a big random industry working on the assembly line or something like that. I guess that ain’t gonna happen… But you never now.
Although these are only bad cellphone pictures I like how they work together in this small story. They’re straight out of the cam.
I was just running some tests in scanning color negatives as I hardly have skills in that… With earlyer tryouts in mind I expected great disillusion, but scanning them (
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#) wasn’t that much of a problem. Errr… Hurray! :)
Even correcting color in pictures I’ve done under tungsten conditions was kinda easy. Plus - as you can see here - I figured out how to make digital contact sheets with color film. Awesome!
These PS contact sheets look kinda fancy. Though, I’m not too sure about their benefit as I tend to make "normal" contacts (this already a selection of course).
I print the pictures out in 10×15 to make a final selection for he story. The filenames are on the back of the prints, too. So… well. But I have to admit they look cool. Hrhr. Would be interesting to hear from your workflow, too… ;)
Shooting around in the university…
Maybe I should edit that.
I need your help. Maybe you have the same problem… I have a Leica M4-2 and as I wear glasses I have two problems with the viewfinder. The first one is, that I can haaaardly see the 35mm frame lines at once, but actually I gave up with that matter and finally see it as it is. Not cool, but well…
But, about the second thing… I’d like to hear how you do it. See the fabric tape on the viewfinder? It’s there because otherwise I’d scratch my glasses. But it isn’t sticky enough so it moves all the time which is really annoying.
Do you have other suggestions for this? I thought about glueing a small rubber ring onto it, but they’re not really flat. So my view would be even worse considering the 35mm frame lines. I’ve also heard about some Leica eyepiece, but if I’m not mistaken it has an additional optical element in it. Some sort of dioptrin adjustment thing (which I don’t want).
God… did all the Bressons back then had no glasses?
