Leipzig at Night series - Entrance to the university bike parking hall

Photographic Weekend. On Saturday Chris and I went to the F/Stop International Photo Festival. I'm sad to say but the venues themself were a lot more interesting than the actual pictures. One of the reasons was probably that we've had seen a lot of the pictures at the Nuit Blanches before. Another reason were the pictures that were presented, a lot of the really good pictures we've seen on the Nuit Blanches weren't on display. However it was interesting to see the use of space and how the pics were presented.

Since the weather was so bad I used yesterdays rain to scan 4 films from September, so my Basel (Switzerland) series starts tomorrow.

The Grater

You know the drill by now, I'm going offline for the weekend. I wish all of you a very relaxing weekend.

I'll go with Chris to the F/Stop Photography Festival 500 pictures at 4 locations in the city, should be interesting.

See you on Monday.

Wustrow - Bodden side

I've been to the Open Day of the Old Spinnery. Lot's of galleries with new artists. Except for one photograph I wouldn't buy any of this stuff.

To get back to the F/Stop. Well, I think Saranna is right, they looked for the subject matter.

Nevertheless, subject matter does NOT stand in an EITHER OR relationship to craftsmanship. This is 2010 you get good cameras for a reasonable price (you can lend one from a friend), there are video tutorials, books, workshops, photoblogs and so on. Photography is nothing new and you can learn the basics in no time. Unfortunately a lot of those pictures with subject matter looked like the artist was using a camera for the first time.

Photography, to me, means playing with light. Most of those artists don't know how to play.

Well, this is my opinion of those pictures. You don't have to like or appreciate it. There are probably a lot of you who would like them and that's fine.

Playing with Dunes

I've been to the Nuit Blanches Photographies yesterday which are pre-events to the F/Stop International Photography Festival in Leipzig. While the event was really cool, music and a photography projection between the stilts of a restaurant next to the Karl-Heine-Channel, I was surprised about the kind of pictures shown. Maybe I have become a snob concerning photography due to my own photography and all of the lovely photo blogs out there. But a lot of those pictures were average and plain boring. Most of them were with objects in the center. Quite a few had only the goal to repel you, it seemed. Almost all of them used cold (flash) light.

There was just one series that played with exposure time (long exposure, really cool stuff). Just one picture with double exposure (which was really good). And two portrait series with fantastic lighting and different picture compositions. Oh and one really nice series with flower still lifes. Except for that...

I'll definitely send in some of my lomographies next year. There is a good chance I make the cut.