After we did the Breaking Bad shooting, we were looking for another topic, so we can integrate everyone into the shot. It took a while until we figured the Matrix poster fits perfect. It was a lot of Photoshop work (more than 50 layers, even the matrix background with all the characters was selfmade) and…
Hier könnt ihr euch die Entstehung meiner letzten Nassplatte ansehen. Wir haben an diesen Tag zwei Platten (Glas und Metall) erstellt. Beide Platten stehen zum Verkauf. Diese Unikate entstehen mit viel Leidenschaft, Silber und Licht. Mehr über die Kollodium Nassplatte und wie ihr zu einem eigenen Portrait unter http://zeitreise.jetzt Danke an…
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Fstoppers startet the Critique the Community Episodes and I gave it a chance to post some of my street portraits (Topic was natural light portrait). Yesterday I looked up their website and saw Jack (I also presented Jack on a local exhibition:Virtual Tour in their post. Of course they did not know that this was…
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Runterscrollen für die deutsche Version. As you know already, I’m into wet plate photography (zeitreise.jetzt). Because I need mask and goggles for that, lots of people told me I look like Walter White from Breaking Bad . My girlfriend and me are watching the show and recently we saw that yellowish portrait of Jesse and…
As you have seen maybe already, I took some pictures at the Bratislava 1619 event (check my blog post about that https://blog.markus-hofstaetter.at/2015/10/bratislava-1619/) As I walked around and looked at the people, I saw one of them that cached my attention. I walked to him and asked if I’m allowed to take his picture. He agreed…
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We went to Bratislava this weekend and by accident we saw an old battle going on in a park. Googleing at home I figured that this was a huge festival called Bratislava 1619 (www.bratislava1619.sk ) and it is about to show a reenactment of a military battle from 17th century. It was a great experience,…
During our vacation I finally read Quinn Jacobson’s ( http://studioq.com/ ) book “Chemical Pictures”. The main cause was to make my own Collodion with the iodizer method to have always fresh Collodion (older one is less light sensitive) In the book are all the CAS numbers, so I thought the ordering should be…
It has been a while since I visited the Eurotour in Austria. This time it was double sweet because I had my charming girlfriend on my side and because I was able to meet many friends again! I saw lots of new (young) faces on the tables, this made me feel a little old school…
Runterscrollen für den deutschen Artikel This is a thank you blog article. For what? You guys approached me a lot lately and told me how much you like my work. I’m every time again surprised and deeply grateful. You guys give me shivers and goosebumps. This is what all my work is about, to…
I walked with some shots left in my analog camera thru Times Square NYC. It was close to midnight when I saw Yu Xoaopeng drawing a portrait of a beautiful woman. I stopped and was amazed by his skills, a second guy was standing beside me and we both talked about his amazing talent. In…