22-2-11

You gotta love this date. Anyway today a new photo from my hand. After a long time the sun was out again and since I didn't have to start working untill 16:00 hours I decided to grab my Instax camera and my Calumet c400 to go out and take some photo's. Except some 4x5 negatives I also made some expired Polaroids and a mini Instax.
The following setup produced the Polaroid below:

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Polaroid:

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If the negatives turn out to be as good as the Polaroid I will be very pleased. When I have developped the negs I will of course show you the results.

21-02-2011

Flowers at Aveve in Maastricht:

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I really like this film. Nice fresh colours. I will buy a lot more of it and then I need to get to know the camera really well. I think I can keep up with this for a while!

20 feb 2011

With this uninspiring titel I open my new blog. It is time for two new instax photo's. The first is a dimly lit room in the Valkenburg museum where the Image Club has an exposition. Actually the room was very bright indeed but I forgot to adjust the lighten darken switch so therefor the photo is quite dark. I am still getting used to the camera...at least that is my excuse. The inspiration for this expo is Charles Eijck. A local painter who lived in Limburg during the 20th century.
The photo's you see on the wall are made by Dick van Nierop.

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The second photo is also made in the museam. It represents part of an farmicist from the 19th century.

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19 feb 2011

I am still looking for a way to run this blog. At the moment I am leaning to make it a Instax/Polaroid/Impossible a day blog. But I reserve the right to change my mind at anytime.
So on my way back I got some gas for the car and made a little detour along the Belgian border from Veldwezelt to Vroenhoven. These are the 2 Instax Mini's I made:

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This last picture does have detail in the dark area's but it might not show on the screen.

Tonight I am going to take photo's at a carnavals party somewhere in Limburg. Make an extra buck so I can invest it in my business.

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Today I picked up my first two boxes of instax mini. Above is the first photo shot with it. Nothing special of course but hey if you have waitied for so long for it you have to shoot with it no matter what. So what to do with the rest of the 19 photo's I have left. Well need to think about that one and then start shooting. Maybe I'll do an instax a day for the rest of my life or something. I don't know yet.

Below packaging of the Instax mini:

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Cleaning

Lately I have been cleaning out stuff. I got rid of 6 enlargers and I put some stuff up on the dutch version of e-bay called marktplaats. Latest addition would be the Krokus Enlarger 69. Nice thing but I don't need it anymore.

In the meantime I keep hoping for an affordable darkroom so I can do some serious printing when I want to.

Life!

Since my last blog stuff happens. First I had to give up my studio space in the centre of Maastricht. That suck because now I have all of my stuff at home and therefor lost my room I used to do my analogue printing in. It is full of darkroomstuff now. Wich I can't used because of the volume of it.
My birthday came and went. A memorable one because my dad got hospitalized that day. He needed surgery on his throat artery. That happened the day after. Luckily everything went OK. Two days later he was back home again.
On a good note is that I got a Fuji mini instax. Pretty happy with that one. Two weeks after it's arrival I went out to get some batteries and now I am waiting to have money to buy some Mini Instax film. The torture!


O yeah although it was staring me riright in the face I just realised I got a new enlarger as wel. A Kinderman 4x5. Complete and in working order. Cool huh?