New Year, New Baby

Leica M6 with 35mm Voigtlaender Nokton 1.4.  Tri-X either at boxspeed, or pushed to 800 or 1600. Developed in Xtol 1:1.

Scanned with Canoscan 8800 and Vuescan.

 

Shooting wide open at 1.4 at Neues Museum

 

Looking at the solar system

 

Geometrical lines in the museum made for some nice shots

 

 

My sister

 

Looking at cell phones

 

Katja at Barini

 

Sony Center

 

 

Madame Zucker

 

At Ana & Paulo’s

 

Klötze & Schinken

 

Benoite

 

Silberloeffel

 

Katja

 

Checking the Diana Mini

 

Poker

 

Early sunday morning on Hermannstr

 

 

Sandra talking about trees

 

Puschkinallee

 

Karl-Marx-Allee

 

Akazienstraße

 

 

 

Kjartan with Benoite’s glasses

 

 

 

Kjartan and Ingvi

Camera filters

 

Rangefinder love

 

Kudamm

 

Remnants

The response to my Year in street photography has been overwhelming and I’m still catching up on all the comments and emails. Thank you guys for all the kind words and the criticism, the encouragement and support. Never did I think that my work would resonate with so many of you. Thanks so much for that, it feels incredibly rewarding and I’ll keep on discovering the streets.

So, this is a rather long entry, I shot eight rolls in December which is not too bad for one of the darkest month of the year. It’s a bit different from the last entries, you’ll see some moments with my family and friends besides the usual street stuff. Because some of you asked: these were all taken with a Konica S3 (Hexanon 38mm 1.7) on Tri-X pushed to ISO 800 and developed in Xtol, diluted 1:1, for 10 minutes.

For those who asked for prints: yes, I’m selling prints. Just write me an email (klaras.street at gmail) with what you’d like and we’ll work things out.

 

 

Berlin. A few days before Christmas

At Rathaus Neukoelln

 

 

 

 

Seen from a parking deck

 

At Benoite’s christmas’ concert

 

 

Write a wish, hang it onto the tree and take a cd home

Where do all the bubble tea shops suddenly come from?

 

Kung Fu Panda

Katja after hunting down the perfect frame

Kottbusser Damm

 

Been going to Katies Blue Cat quite often

Sandra tired after lunch

Did I say I take my camera everywhere?

Me, the bus stop and a double-decker bus

People do still use them

At my godfather’s place

Made stupid jokes and laughed a lot

My sister lighting the candles

One of the things I love about this place

Back at my parents’ place, Frankfurt in the back

Downtown Frankfurt

Met with Sunhee

Cell phone light

 

 

 

 

 

Met with Max

UBS building

Inside

Drooled so much over his Leica

Occupying the escalator

He likes to shoot that stuff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At Imori

My sister waiting in line

 

 

 

 

Going back to Berlin

 

 

My sister looking stealth

Last day of 2011. Happy New Year!

The year in street photography

2011 was the year I carried my camera almost everywhere, the year the camera became an extension of my right arm, the year I found myself on the streets over and over again, the year the streets accompanied me through my highs and lows. This post is not a personal best-of, but rather a selection of how I saw and felt about street photography in 2011.

January. After having neglected street photography for a long while, I picked up my camera again. It instantly felt right.

It stuck as the month the obsession started (again) and never left.

I took walks for hours, alone. I shot everything I saw.

I took the bus instead of the subway, so I could see and shoot from the upper decks.

February. I changed perspectives.

I tried different vantage points.

I tried juxtapositions.

I discovered that I like shooting on familiar ground.

I found out that I like reflections.

March. I went to Frankfurt.

I tried getting close.

I shot street with my sister for the first time. It felt great.

April. I went to Hamburg.

Saw the Vivian Maier exhibition. Was blown away by her work and frustrated with my own.

I kept on shooting anyway.

Most of the stuff didn’t feel right.

May. I went to Austria.

Vienna taught me how to see light.

Vienna taught me to wait.

I went to Latvia.

I worked on a movie set. I shot whenever I had a break.

I went to Riga.

I dared to get closer.

I was suprised with what I could get away with.

I took Robert Capa’s words literally.

June. I went back to Berlin.

I tried shooting from my bike, never turned out any good.

I still thought that I had to get closer.

But somehow it didn’t feel quite right.

I went back to my old approach.

I used public transport instead of my bike. I wanted to shoot all the time.

I decided that I was okay with taking pictures of kids.

July. I went to Frankfurt again. I was inspired by my sister.

I discovered medium format.

I went back to Berlin.

I got comfortable shooting people.

I tried shooting at night.

August. I went back to what I thought I could do best.

I discovered that I loved harsh contrasts and shooting around midday.

I went to Frankfurt again. I decided I would go back to shooting film. It changed everything.

This was one of the last frames I shot digital.

This was the last frame I shot digital.

September. Analog. Medium format. Color.

It felt refreshing.

I got a rangefinder. It changed everything again. I shot only color for an entire month.

I found out that I was better at black and white.

October. The rangefinder system was a revelation.

It freed me from the constraints of the slr. It changed the way I see.

I set up a mini lab in my bathroom and got into developing again.

November. I was obsessed about developing and scanning.

December. I changed my pace.

I let things happen.

Some things came together nicely.

Some things sucked, but I’ll keep on shooting anyway. I’m ready, 2012.

Push Me Now

First try at pushing Tri-X to ISO 800, I quite like the results.

Lunch at a Japanese Deli in Mitte.

While I waited for Katja, I shot people shooting street.

At Anja Niedringhaus exhibition. Inspiring stuff.

Afterwards in Aufsturz

It was unusually warm for December, but it rained for days.

Inside a nail saloon

I’m always fascinated by people who try their luck with these machines.

They won.

 Christmas market.

After a shooting at Ryan’s apartment.