magicial little polaroid shop

while walking through the enchanting streets of old Madrid, we came across a photography shop at   Calle Barquillo, and of course, I could not resist and entered. 

As it turns out, the shop is really a little gem of everything polaroid and it's following team - the impossible project.

An impressive collection of pola-cameras and photographs.

The shop has also a small photo studio and it is owned by now the 3rd generation of photographers.
One of the proudest item is an old wooden camera, fitted with a polaroid 8x10 back, passed down in the family.

The youngest generation is a newly married couple, he's a film maker and she's the grand daughter of the shop's founder. 

They even had their marriage photo, taken by the old wood camera.

They handle everything polaroid, here's their site: 

  http://www.alanstudio.es/

re-learing the view camera

Borrowed a Toyo View Camera to study it.
It's a bit anachronistic, it seems, these days, with all the corrections you can do in Photoshop and such, but I think it's a knowledge you have to possess and preserve.
I am going to shoot a studio project using not 4"by5" but rather a 120mm film cassette.I'll try to relearn the basics and the advanced features, such as using the tilt shift, a lens that can close up to f64 !!!!
working with an upside- down view (camera obscura) isn't going to be easy but all in all-
I am very exited.

My first camera- the mamiyaflex c2

I'm still enjoying the lovely qualities
and depth of detail on my old camera,

which was the first one, that I bought around 1990.

It was manufactured in japan by Mamiya around 1960,

Features a twin lens system 

A focus bellow that will bring you so close to your subject- 

It will scream...

The mamiyaflex c2

My Photo installation in the art event "Arim Tehomot" in Jaffa, Tel Aviv

An Alternative art event that took place on Saturday march 24th in Jaffa, Tel Aviv.
I presented a composited picture that was shot on Black and white Film and later composed in Photoshop.

Also, did a "slow Portrait" street Studio using available light and shooting on a 6 by 7 Mamiya RB67

Behind the scenes by photographer Nino Herman

Nino's Blog

 The Slow Portrait

In my personal work I aim to slow down. 

As a working photographer I have a personal need to balance the super fast pace of the image taking process with a more traditional way. 

For that purpose I use various Film cameras, preferably Medium format. It forces me to measure, aim, re-compose and do a lot of thinking before pressing the camera trigger. 

The resulting images have a different ambiance, different intention and a lot more intangible feel to them. 

In this Project I want to bring the process of slowing down to the street. Involve and share this experience with the passing by. I want to take pictures of people without the constant and instant judgment of the results, which will be shown only after a while. 

I will pose them in front of a white canvas and in the tradition of the great masters, try to get something pure and authentic out of them. 

The process is the act, the photography as a sort of live performance perhaps. 

Black and white Film Portraits

Shooting medium B&W format in Jaffa (IL)

Canera used:
Mamiyaflex 6x6
Film: TMY-2 400 ISO

street photography - in the city of tel aviv with the Olympus AF-10 35mm

 

photography in 35mm pocket Film camera

view from my sudio window

the mountain of trash with fields

in an ethiopian photo studio downtown

in an ethiopian photo studio downtown

a gathering

smoker

coffee shop and laundrymat

tel aviv through the half-frame

a beautiful series of real photographs taken with an old olympus pen' half frame camera.
the film gives a whole different life to the images, you just can't get that from all the snappy digital cameras.

because you can't set anything but composition in this camera, there's a lot left to chance, and clicking at the right moment.

That's kind of my definition to photo-magic.
Sometimes you just have to leave all the technology and know-how behind, and just make pictures.