Lomography

Als ich von der Belair gelesen habe, hat mich das Konzept sofort überzeugt: Automatische Belichtung bei Mittelformat!? „Woohoo!“ Das war vermutlich mein erster Gedanke. Und mir war klar, dass ich die Kamera unbedingt haben möchte. Wenn ich mich richtig erinnere war ich tatsächlich einer der allerersten, der die Kamera in der Hand hatte und so ungefähr der zweite oder dritte, der ein Album hochgeladen hat. Das erklärt viele Likes für schwache Bilder. Zu diesem Augenblick war ich noch euphorisch, obwohl die ersten Ergebnisse wie gesagt nicht so toll waren. Das hat sich gelegt. Also das mit der Euphorie. Aber mittlerweile habe ich auch einige sehr ordentliche Ergebnisse. Aber noch immer bin ich nicht überzegt. Was also macht die Belair aus? Wo sind die Schwächen, wo die Stärken?

This last year was my first full year in this great community. I got in touch with very nice and interesting people around the globe and I saw many many great pictures which in fact wasn´t helpful for my bank account. I was really inspired by a lot of shots you took and so I badly had to buy this and that and try this or that. But thanks a lot for the input. Here, I want to show you my favorite shots of the last 12 months, one for each month, which is pretty hard to choose. You won't miss my best failures too, and the ones I like from the best of the community.

Buchcover sind meist weit weniger gut gestaltet als z.B. Plattencover. Das ist im Grunde sehr schade, denn vermutlich haben Buchcover als Eyecatcher mehr Wirkung als Plattencover, da man meist schon weiß welche Platte man sich kauft, bei Büchern aber mehr schmöckert und sich vom Cover und dem Klappentext verführen lässt. Hmmm, ich kann nicht sagen ob Lomographien auf den Buchcovern besser wären, aber bei einigen meiner Lieblingsbücher würde ich folgende Photos aussuchen.

I dig deep in the city each time I go for a walk with my 4-month-old son. So if you want to get to know Berlin better - mainly the "Barrios", Kreuzberg and Neukölln - read on after the jump and have a look at the gallery at the bottom.

With the Fuji T64 120 (Tungsten) film your pictures might get a great colour explosion, but you have to choose your subjects wisely. Otherwise, you will probably wonder about pale pictures like I did. As this is a great film, you should take care to achieve those great popping colours you aim for. Read on after the jump!

You spend your holidays at the beach? Enjoy and bathe in the sun and then refresh yourself in the water? Well, that´s what most people do on the beach. Not me. Almost every time I travel to a beach I do this to do sports: I play Beach Ultimate. - Ultimate Frisbee played on the beach. Last year in August I played at the World Championships of Beach Ultimate in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. Read on how hard it is to run in the sun when everyone else on the beach is looking for shadow.

If you always wanted to have a unique dope looking camera no one else has, this is for you! The La Sardina camera is predestined and you can give it a unique style.

This is a review of the camera used for week 3 of the "30 Weeks, 30 Cams" series. The camera a, Revueflex-B, is nothing but a Zenit-B sold by a German department store chain under another name. Read on how I got this SLR camera produced in Russia and how it handles.

After testing the Ilford Sportsman 300S in week 1 and being pretty satified with it, I tested the Minox 35 EL I got for €2.49 from eBay in week 2. This one I got from eBay too, but I paid more for it. I didn´t know anything about it but I noticed it the first time bccbarbosa had some nice shots uploaded, taken using one of the tiny Minox 35 series. That was my motivation to buy it.

The boys among you: do you remember peeing your name into the snow? Or leaving an angel in the snow? New genre artist Sonja Hinrichsen did not forget and used the landscape in the mountains of Colorado as a canvas to do give a large-scale pattern and put it on another level. The pictures were taken by Cedar Beauregard who runs a business for aerial photography and video. It's both amazing: the work by Sonja Hinrichsen and the perspective Beauregard offers.

This is the review of the camera I used in the first week of my "30 Weeks, 30 Cams Project": the Ilford Sportsman 300. I found this camera on eBay for € 2.49. I didn't know anything about it but thought the name is somehow funny and it would be a nice camera to start the project with. So here is my review about the handling of the camera.

I've always been into music since I was a little boy. I grew up with the vinyl collection of my oldest brother which means I listened to Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac at the age of about 4 or 5. At our home, it was always Open Home. Friends of my brother were there all day, relatives came very often to visit us, and my mother took care of kids from the village of the formerly so called "Gastarbeiter" (immigrant workers). So if I wanted to be by myself, my brother allowed me to stay in his room and listen to his records. And so I did. I got to know a lot of music back in the days when cars only had cassette decks. That´s why I got a proud collection of many many mixtapes through the all years. Let me tell you about a one from 1998.

Not too far away from the Schwabenmetropole Stuttgart in the south of Germany are a few small villages you might want to visit because you can travel back in time. Some places there haven't changed since the 70s. I know because I grew up there. It's only 15 minutes by car from the airport of Stuttgart and while you're at it: visit the incredible butcher there, get some great Schnaps from a more than 100-year-old family business or if you have the money, have dinner in one of the best restaurants of the whole country! But that's not my opinion because I haven't been there, I just read that from a gourmet guide.

I claim: you can´t get more authenticity than with people at work! I guess a lot of poeple can´t think of stepping into a store,bakery, coiffeur or whatever, take out their camera and ask if they can take a few pictures. But you being an (silent) observer ensures you getting authenticity and you decide the moment which is worth being captured - not the right facial expression you need to quick pull the trigger.