I am quite happy with Lightroom. Yes, I really are. Because I am a lunatic when it comes to archiving — anything. But why am I writing this?

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Because I am spending some of my spare time revoking my “old” blog, I also took the liberty to upload large photos now — and much more of them.

Hopefully you are interested in the little shoot I enjoyed in February 2006 as third unit camera operator (w00ts!) in a real-world Counterstrike match shot in an old power plant in Voitsberg. If you are interested in a hunk (50+) of photos and the report, just click: Counterstrike Cobra. Enjoy the slide show or click on “Picture List” to select large versions of the photos! And better get used to the slide show tool on my blog.

Sometimes a scanned negative looks just like the one in the picture: Although there’s an area, like the snow, that should have a coherent tone, it’s sometimes darker and sometimes brighter – there’s even vignetting on the right side. In the darkroom this means to dodge and burn until you get away with it but this takes usually a lot of time. But in Photoshop everything’s a little easier.

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During a chat with my old mentor Branko Lenart a month ago he suggest me trying the Fuji Neopan Acros 100 b/w-film, a “wicked film” in his terms. I nearly forgot about his words but remembered them two days ago when I was photographing in the canals of the Wienfluss in Vienna where I exposed my last Ilford Delta 100 rolls, my favorite film – yet.

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Gee, working with the Kiev is harder than working with a Mamiya RZ… probably because of the flaws I discovered during the last few days. The price was just too good. But let’s see what troubles me.

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On Thursday there was my lucky day: I found a Kiev BIG-six camera on the website of the local photo store Foto Mayrhofer – for a smashing price.

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