{"id":5751,"date":"2018-02-22T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2018-02-22T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:37:22","slug":"workshop-analog-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/?p=5751","title":{"rendered":"Workshop Analog Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the hasty experiments during the last rainy days are done for preparation for a soon starting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/149043339110301\/\">Workshop<\/a>\u00a0in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powwow.bg\/en\/\">powwow<\/a> club. People with very different level of knowledge will join. The basic idea is to enable\u00a0everybody\u00a0interested to take two rolls of film\u00a0with an analog camera.<br \/>\nI would like people to bring in their old cameras to see, if we can reactivate them. It would be nice, if these old treasures get out of their boxes to prove themselves. So lets take a look at the first candidate:\u00a0A brand-new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TaEuqPonQAA\">ZENIT E<\/a> made in USSR &#8211; a Beauty of a camera with a <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/creating-swirly-bokeh-with-the-helios-44-2-lens\/\">HELIOS 44-2 58mm f\/2.0<\/a> lens. The camera was produced from 1965 to 1986 which makes it at least 30 years old. If you have a camera like this, you have a good chance that it was produced before the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chernobyl_disaster\">Chernobyl disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the Sound of the Soviet Union in the times of the Cold War with some commercial Funk in the background:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"930\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSt5MqIeE4g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the workshop we will decide about places that are worth visiting in Bulgaria &#8211; from a photographers point of view especially.<br \/>\nA perfect example is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.bg\/search?q=busludja&amp;dcr=0&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiHltT37rfZAhUICCwKHXUzCmQQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1920&amp;bih=1075&amp;dpr=2\">\u0431\u0443\u0437\u043b\u0443\u0434\u0436\u0430<\/a>.\u00a0If you have ideas where we can go to shoot our films, please leave a print in the comments. If you don&#8217;t have ideas &#8211; use google again &#8211; help me there &#8211; I need your input! Thank you!<br \/>\nEverybody\u00a0shoots at least a second roll of film over time for him\/herself.\u00a0Following this,\u00a0we will develop the\u00a0films and examine the results. The final goal is everybody to make an enlargement of their favourite picture &#8211; to have produced a fine piece of art in the end.<br \/>\nFor this reason I shall start to equip the darkroom to eliminate some of the obvious failures of last days experiments! I will not always be lucky about saving some shots like yesterday &#8211; about the open dark bag and the broken KODAK TMAX 100.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5781 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-360x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-975x1300.jpg 975w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-41x55.jpg 41w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-1800x2400.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-1000x1333.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8408-1-420x560.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One more remark &#8211; triggered by an interested person: If the workshop is suitable\u00a0for the digital shooter also. You can join yes &#8211; but you will not need to wait in the darkroom or dip your camera into chemicals etc of course. Joke. The problem\u00a0is actually, that digital photography is often equal to point and shoot style. We see something, take a camera and shoot. From than on, the picture goes from chip to hard disk to server, gets changed &#8211; we never know, where we will see fragments of this picture again. Its bits and bytes &#8211; but now I am getting too far away&#8230; \u00a0Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jk-8aDffjQA\">Matt Grangers tips about Point and Shoot photography<\/a>. He has a famous Photography channel and a postmodern\u00a0moustache &#8211; in this\u00a0clip at least.<\/p>\n<p>The point is &#8211; I am in a bar and want to show to the world &#8211; Facebook of course &#8211; what beer glass I am using to make everybody thirsty. So lets take the shot:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5778 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-2200x1289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-2200x1289.jpg 2200w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-720x422.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-94x55.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-1800x1054.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-1000x586.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-600x351.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8443-1-956x560.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Too much information &#8211; all these things makes it hard to focus on the beer. Now I do this again &#8211; what is different? I separate my object from the background &#8211; compose &#8211; my phone focuses &#8211; I shoot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-1733x1300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-1733x1300.jpg 1733w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-73x55.jpg 73w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-1800x1350.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8444-1-747x560.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thirsty? Digital, analog &#8211; no difference. There are many resources that explain you &#8220;How to take better pictures&#8221;. During our shootings we will touch techniques etc. but will not focus on how to take better pictures. The glass in the above picture is fake news btw. &#8211; I am having GLARUS &#8211; a fine Bulgarian Pale Ale which\u00a0i don&#8217;t link due to too many pop ups etc on their homepage but\u00a0i can highly recommend trying it!<br \/>\nBy using analog technologies you get forced to think, focus, compose etc. before shooting &#8211; otherwise, you waste the moment. This is one aspect that differs from the faster photography styles but besides using chip or film &#8211; their size, speed and grain\/noise &#8211; the lens and the eye of the photographer matters most in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Take your time, get creative and mix digital and anlog!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-975x1300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-975x1300.jpg 975w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-41x55.jpg 41w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-1800x2400.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-1000x1333.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.neverland.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8411-1-420x560.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the hasty experiments during the last rainy days are done for preparation for a soon starting Workshop\u00a0in our powwow club. People with very different level of knowledge will join. The basic idea is to enable\u00a0everybody\u00a0interested to take two rolls of film\u00a0with an analog camera. 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