Vanessa - © Carsten Domnick
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Vivien - © Carsten Domnick
Vivien
Lakshmi - © Carsten Domnick
Lakshmi
Stella - © Carsten Domnick
Stella
A few weeks ago Maren and myself met in a huge parking lot in Stuttgart and exposed five rolls of 35mm film using the available light.
Contax AX and RTS III loaded with Ilford HP5 @ISO320 (mainly 50mm lens, some taken with the 85mm)
negatives scanned with Epson Scanner and processed in Adobe Lightroom (mainly dust removal and enhancement of contrast etc)
As mentioned in my previous blog entry I am returning more and more to the analog photography. So at the end of last year I reactivated my darkroom because I wanted to extend my photographic process from taking the picture to creating the print again.
With a lot of support from Axel I began my way into lithprinting, which is a special version of analog printing. In addition to a special developer you need a photographic paper which fits to the process. One of the papers popular in this process is the ORWO paper which was produced in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic) and is no longer produced for nearly three decades.
The print shown here is my first successful print on ORWO paper..
Regards and „good light and good luck“,
Carsten
Hello,
after a few years of absence I returned to analog photography a while ago. This was not a technical decision (I do not believe in any competition between digital and analog photography), but more an emotional one. I do like that I have to focus on preparing and I do not get an immediate feedback (but I do use a DSLR for the first few shots to confirm my exposure metering etc.).
The photos posted here today were all taken on 35mm-film, partly with studio flash light on Ilford FP4 and partly with constant lights on Ilford HP5. All films were develoed in HC-110 and scanned. In my hybrid process I did some minor adjustments in Lightroom (contrast, b/w, dust removal), but no retouching.
Regards and all the best,
Carsten
... einfach Portraits von Menschen mit Persönlichkeit in schwarzweiss.
Alle Bilder analoge Abzüge (gescannt) aus der klassischen Dunkelkammer.
… simply portraits of people with personality in black and white.
All images analoge prints (scanned) from the classic darkroom.
