A week in photos

Wow; it\’s a week already since I\’ve posted some photos, and a rather busy and fast one it was. So I didn\’t take and upload as many pictures as usual, and most of them (in fact all except one) are in black & white.

Like this one here, of Tuna our cat. Tried some Ilford HP5+ film emulation on her, but without the grain:

The only colour photo I took and actually uploaded to Flickr was taken during a short cigarette break on the company\’s roof garden. I was there with my colleague Arno and saw some other colleague (never seen him before), reading a book in the already setting sun. Looked like this:

Then, two days ago, this:

Zuleikha was just finishing her homework in normal room light, and from a comparison of more or less standard outputs of different raw converters which I did last weekend, I decided that for black & white, Olympus Viewer 3 gave the best results.

Also in black & white, and taken yesterday during a concert at Zuleikha\’s school, Herr Koch on his Flügelhorn (they played \”Feels so good\” from Chuck Mangione, and indeed that felt and sounded very nice!):

I also tried to take some of Zuleikha\’s friend Yuma who was excellent like always, but my photos weren\’t. Guess I\’ll have to ask and to invite them for a photo session in good light and in a controlled environment.

And finally, a few moments ago I took another cat portrait of Tuna, this time with bounced flash and guessed exposure (which was a bit too high this time, but I could correct it in post):

I cropped this one, and set the aspect ratio to 3:2 to get closer to a 135 \”small\” film (Kleinbildfilm) look. My aperture was f/2 here, so it\’s about the same as a picture taken on 135 film with an aperture of f/4, concerning the depth of field.

As always, thanks for reading.