garden girls Patience is a virtue or so they say. Well, I can be patient – after all I shoot film -, but it’s still a little annoying that I will have to wait a whole month ...
tears for a rabbit Shooting film is an exercise in patience. You can’t see the picture right away and the whole process gives you only little glimpses until you can finally see the outcome of your efforts scanned or ...
se un agente del kaos I have now finished developing all the black and white rolls that I brought back from my most recent trip. I even developed some from before as well, which means that in total I developed ...
in that other world At the moment I’m experimenting again with stand-development in Rodinal. When I first started with it I actually did a lot of careless agitation, which increased grain. Later I tried to learn from my experiences ...
beached Yesterday I returned from my last trip and it was such a major headache to travel this time. After the strikes of the railway workers on the weekend and the Wednesday before, they actually announced ...
ghosts When I ordered a roll of XP2 a few weeks back to test it, I wasn’t really expecting much to be honest. After all it’s C41 film and abusing it in black and white chemicals seems ...
smiles At the moment I’m travelling, so I don’t know whether I will have that much time to post pictures. I’ll try to keep them coming. Just before leaving I made a point of scanning the last ...
child’s play A couple weeks ago I posted pictures from a roll of K400 that I shot accidentally at ISO 800. This is the companion roll of Tri-X that also ended up with the same ISO settings ...
jehovah’s witnesses Today I’ll show you the results from my first roll of Eastman Double-X. Although these look really promising the negs were a tad too dense at ISO 250 in my XA when developing in Rodinal. ...
the elephant Whenever I shoot my XA at night I usually follow it up with a couple of rolls shot at ISO 800 in daylight, because I forgot to change the setting of the light meter. This ...
Why shoot film in the digital age? Lately I have been thinking a lot about analog photography and whether I should maybe stop doing digital photography altogether. Wait, what? Don’t we live in the digital age and isn’t film something completely outdated? ...
ultimo febrero – Kentmere 400 I have been playing with Kentmere 400 for over a year now and I shot around 30 rolls of the stuff. I have tried it with D76, Rodinal, Tetenal Ultrafin and finally Caffenol-CL. After all ...
don’t bite the bear – Caffenol-CL The other day I developed some film in coffee for the first time. I wanted to try this for a while and had all the ingredients for stand-development sitting around with my other chemicals for ...
ouch Today I’ll show you some pictures from another one of those strange Basque traditions. Like many of them it involves drumming and the kids love it, but apart from that I have no idea what ...
chess When people ask me whether shooting film is more difficult then I usually say no. It doesn’t have to be more difficult at all, especially if you shoot with an automatic camera and use a ...
public sleeping Today’s pictures were taken in Berlin on the day that I got my Rolleicord. I wasn’t quite decided yet, so we walked around a little more and then came back to the shop to buy ...
toros de fuego The Basques certainly have some dangerous traditions. We found ourselves in the middle of one of them at the end of the Semana Grande when we stumbled into a celebration that involved runners carrying wooden ...
approved by the ministry of silly hats Film always inspires me to experiment. Different film emulsions, different developers, pushing, pulling, different agitation schemes and so on. Of course in the process things tend to go wrong as well. It’s bound to happen ...
siblings Several things went wrong with this batch. First of all I accidentally pushed to 800, because I didn’t change the ISO setting of the XA after shooting at night. I must have been shooting at ...
world cup celebrations The night Germany won against Brasil during the football / soccer world cup I first didn’t want to go out to take pictures because I was feeling too tired thanks to all the moving preparations. ...
