Any Model You Want...

[Pete Askew]

as long as it's a Trabant. Unter Den Linden, October 1989.

Nikon FE + Nikkor 105mm f1:2.5. Agfachrome.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I had to look up Trabant. Now the title makes sense! What's wrong with uniformity, eh? Everything?

Interesting historical shot. Funny to think our present photos will be historical records some day.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

not everyone's but this is a stunner and a keeper. very good.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks, both. Quite fascinating looking back on pictures taken back then. The landscapes look just like landscapes but these really show their age.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Thanks, both. Quite fascinating looking back on pictures taken back then. The landscapes look just like landscapes but these really show their age.

Excellent Pete. Often a good reason to take what could be perceived as mundane images of the moment, the car park full of modern cars may look uninviting , but given time it evolves and becomes more interesting .

 

[Pete Askew]

Too true, Julian. I guess it was the mass of Trabants that made me take it in the first place. I recall Unter den Linden disappearing in a dense blue haze when the all left to go home at the end of the day. It was so dense we had to move to a side street.

 

[Brian Moore]

Interesting historical shot. Funny to think our present photos will be historical records some day.

I think of this often actually. In particular when I am walking Sadie near the pier and I am snapping images of ordinary folk doing ordinary beachy things, I am almost always harboring the notion that images of the same area 100 years ago are today celebrated for the ways the fashions or the architecture or the cars looked.

Nice shot, Pete. Lovely warm afternoon sun lighting things up. I guess it was obscured soon enough in the smoke and fumes of Trabant exhaust.

 

[Pete Askew]

It was indeed. Thanks, Brian.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Makes me think that I'll probably be reincarnated in about a hundred years from now, and I'll be given the chance to see the changes.

 

[Detlef Kuhl]

Hi Pete, very nice shot and giving a look 25 years back. I remenber the trabants well and even today you can sometimes smell them.

 

[Cathy Stallard]

I agree with Julian Pete, great shot! I LOVE the colors on this photo..makes the atmosphere look warm and interesting. Was this digital or film? That may be a dumb qeustion.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks, Detlef. I brought all of my Berlin slides back with me this time. When you are over we'll have to go through them.

Thanks Cathy. It was shot on slide film. The first digital SLR was still a couple of years away when these were taken.

 

[Steve Boykin]

as long as it's a Trabant. Unter Den Linden, October 1989.

Nikon FE + Nikkor 105mm f1:2.5. Agfachrome.

This is an absolutely amazing photo!!! The colors are beautiful. When I see this it really makes me wish it wasn't so difficult and expensive to shoot film now days.

 

[Pete Askew]

Ah, I see, Agfachrome.

I've been shooting some Cinestill recently (the 50 ISO) but will develop it myself but that will have to wait a bit.

 

[Steve Boykin]

Ah, I see, Agfachrome.

I've been shooting some Cinestill recently (the 50 ISO) but will develop it myself but that will have to wait a bit.

I have a roll of the Cinestill 800 I have been meaning to shoot. I do think you can push it 3200, which supposedly gives you that glowing purple look in Eyes Wide Shut. I found a lab here in Houston so I may give it a go.

 

[Pete Askew]

Don't forget it is Tungsten balanced.

 

[Steve Boykin]

Don't forget it is Tungsten balanced.

I was planning on shooting it at night. I saw some sample photos with it pushed. The colors reminded me of the really beautiful colors you see in Eyes Wide Shut. I remember reading an American Cinematographer article about the processing on that film. Really fascinating.