Berlin Calling – Part 3: shooting film is hard work!

My scanner was glowing in the dark after scanning the last frame of my recent trip to berlin!

Damn, I know that shooting film causes a lot of work compared to digital and I always have fun while scanning my frames and getting them ready for the screen, but after roll no. 10 of this project my motivation began to decrease…

I think it’s still fun getting through 1-2 good rolls an evening and then upload the 5-10 best frames, but the pure bulk of negatives I digitized within the last weeks turned out to be more like a “job” then an actual hobby.

So here are the final frames from day 3 & 4 (sunday & monday) in berlin:

OK, OK, very touristic post-card shot. so it can only get better…

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I came across this asian photographer with his Leica M3(?) and the collapsible 50mm Elmar at Alexanderplatz….

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…so actually he was the reason I was a little bit late this morning

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hard times for the light-meter of my OM-4 Ti

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not interested in kissing?

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three photographers in the morning, one of them hasn’t had a coffee!

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warming up with some random shots

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still shooting easy subjects that are prepared to get photographed

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this morning, Enrico lent me his 49mm polarizer. so I played around with light and reflections on glass and things like that. kind of useful!

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she’s “shooting” portraits in a very analog way

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time to move on I’d say, this guy wasn’t amused being photographed

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finally, we found a starbucks!

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and in there we met this nice looking and totally “applefied” lady. she was definitely a case for the multi-spot-metering system of the OM-4 Ti since her black skin and the harsh backlight squeezed the maximum dynamic range out of the film. fortunately, her face was a little bit brightened by the screen of her MacBook…

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despite of the nice people inside the place, I forced my fellows to have the coffee outside since I only had an ISO125 film loaded. too slow for more indoor shots

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photographic outlaw Enrico takes photos where he wants to.

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looking at my FlickR-set “Berlin Calling“, I have to admit I shot too many platform-photos

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maybe nothing special to YOU, but since I always travel by car – there wasn’t a single “on the train” shot in my stream. now there is one 🙂

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my exposure counter showed “36” and I wanted to change the roll. this girl with nice shoes helped me to fill the roll. thanks girl!

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I’m not exactly sure, but look at the man on the left – isn’t this a Panasonic L1 (aka Leica Digilux3) around his neck?

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can’t help myself, he looks like a honest guy that’s going to do his tough job (like scanning negatives or something similar) – even on a sunday

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berlin people drive a horrible style, even on the bike

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schnitzel!

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so that’s the berlin-style

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as far as I remember, I grabbed the wrong lens out of my bag (was searching for the ZUIKO 50mm/F1.4 but since the 85mm/F2.0 isn’t anything bigger, I didn’t notice my mistake until I had mounted the glass) but it was at least good for a self-portrait in a traffic-mirror

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reserved parking area, obviously

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a bike, with a flat tire, at a backyard, in berlin

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while we moved on towards the colourful “eastside gallery”, I switched to a KODAK Ektar100 colour negative film but the shots didn’t turn out the way I expected. maybe I’ll post some of them in my stream within the next days. so let’s stay b/w so far…

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can anyone explain this thing to me? we saw hundreds of girls carrying around DSLRs in all flavours! what happened to all those tiny pink Casio point’n’shoot cameras??

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they were going CRAZY just to write their names on the wall (which is surely going to be repainted once a year)

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those photographic softies were afraid to cross the road during red light. look at me guys, I’m the real outlaw!

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liked his hat, so I took this shot “from the hip”

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I almost missed our train while I was multi-spot-metering this scene highly concentrated to get a proper exposure, despite of the backlight

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whats the news?

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we had lunch at an italian restaurant and did some “camera porn” while waiting for the dessert

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I’m not a biker but I have to admit there is something interesting about those pure and clean fixed-gear/single-speed bicycles

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back to the streets

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a frame I was about to delete – but I like the way (the half of) her face seems to be the only sharp area in this image

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at least the boy noticed me and gave me EYE CONTACT – 1 street-photography bonus-point for me please! 🙂

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hm, not the most streetish shot of the series, OK

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seems like another unconventional drag race on berlins streets

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ticketing-practice on sunday

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again, the man with the hat and the SIGMA cameras

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loaded my last roll of that day here

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and filled it with some more or less interesting street-photos

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I got caught 🙂

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they were having great fun taking pictures of theirselves

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again, tourists with maps and p&s-cameras – everywhere you look

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no, we don’t know this guy. and we don’t even want to, since he was shooting buildings only 🙂

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want to buy an “original” russian hat from an Indian?

Finished my last roll for sunday here, so I grabbed my PEN and shot digital for the rest of the day.

After three days of shooting and nearly 20 burned rolls of film, my OM-4 Ti was done with her job and slipped back into her compartment case s to relax. While the PEN did the digital work an saturday- and sunday-afternoon, I decided to give the Leica M4 a ride on the last day (monday):

first off, I got my car cleaned – had a long and rainy journey on Friday

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while Enrico had to go for work, I called Frank to meet up with him (but I kept shooting while on the phone)

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haven’t ever seen such a classic photo booth before (maybe I’m too young)

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we decided to visit the abandoned airport Tempelhof but unfortunately there weren’t that much great subjects to shoot…

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…and instead of capturing some awesome images we walked another fucking kilometers through the whole airfield to get back to the car.

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on this hurting feet, again 😦

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kind of boring place from a photographic point of view, there wasn’t much going on

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trying to “street up” the airfield a little bit

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back in the city we went straight to the next starbucks (what else?) and waited for Enrico to join us

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I watched this girls, producing their own soap. they seemed to have a lot of fun in there

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sometimes starbucks branches look like computer-stores or internet c@fés…

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…or at least like a phone-shop with a small coffee-corner

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this doesn’t look like an interesting conversation (at least for her)

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“security” guard in front of a closed store

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and it ended where it all began: we met Enrico at the station Friedrichstr. to have one last beer together before I started the engine to ride back to Frankfurt/Main.

 Category: analog, photography, street      Tagged: analog, berlin, film, street

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