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In this EDITION HYBRID PHOTOGRAPHYHYBRID PHOTOGRAPHY PROCESS PROCESS--FRANK HAGEBOKEFRANK HAGEBOKE STREET OF THE WEEK STREET OF THE WEEK-- LOTHAR BENDIX LOTHAR BENDIX SELECTED PHOTOS MEMBERS SELECTED PHOTOS MEMBERS

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Sonali Dalal cover photo & editors choice

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Jens Kaiser

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Nickolas Kharitonov

Lothar Bendix

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HYBRID PHOTOGRAPHY HYBRID PHOTOGRAPHY PROCESSPROCESS

Sometimes I‘m asked why my photos look like they do, if their EXIF data could be correct, why they are so noisy/grainy etc. - So I believe it‘s worthwhile to give a general introduction into the hybrid photography process I‘m executing: 1. It started as an experiment and it was supposed not to require large investments - the process is based on gear a photographer most likely has in his equipment. 2. Take your pictures on b&w film using some (old) analog cameras and lenses (ask your parents/grandparents or win at ebay ...) My cameras are a Nikon FM and a Nikon FM2n. My lenses are all fast prime lenses (there are still some on my shopping list...). The films I use are Kodak TMax100 and Kodak TMax400, both b&w T-grain films. 3. Google for „Ansel Adams“ and „Zone System“ to learn how to expose film.

4. Take your photos. 5. Let the films be developed in a profes-sional lab or do it on your own. I get better results when I develop the films on my own. (The web is full of ma-nuals how to do it - it‘s easy and the film development does not require a darkroom.) I develop in Kodak Xtol 1:1 @ 21°C and 8 Minutes (normal develop-ment according to the technical film do-cumentation) - so far, so analog - now the digital pro-cess starts - 6. Digitally reproduce your negatives by photographing them as frame filling as possible with your digital camera. You require - a light table/plate to have an even bac-klight - a film holder (plastic spare part / ex-tension for film scanners) - a tripod to mount the camera - a macro lens to get sufficiently close to the negative - a cable/remote release for your camera

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7. Tips for the reproduction: - Work in manual mode - Look for a medium gray area in your picture and focus there onto the film grain. - Use the sweet point of your lens to achieve maximum quality (normally a medium appertu-re from f/4 to f/8) - Wide angle lenses are not preferable (distortion, softness in corners, vignetting, chromatic aberrations) - Set ISO on the lowest value possible to avoid noise. - Use matrix metering (no spot nor center weighted) and apperture priority - Observe the histogram and expose sufficiently but don‘t allow any clippings - Exposure time does not matter, you shoot from a tripod using a cable/remote shutter relea-se. - Shoot in RAW, you need digital postprocessing anyway. - Once the settings are fixed you can keep them for the complete roll of film - Shoot one negative after the other without touching the system

8. Process the RAW files with any software you like (I do it with RAWTherapee on linux) - desaturate the picture (it‘s b&w anyway) - inverse the graduation curve and adjust it to a moderate ‚S‘-shape - slightly adjust exposure and contrast - resharpen the picture carefully to compensate softness due to the digicam‘s lowpass filter - store the profile and only carefully adjust it to an average that works with all your pictures (you need different profiles for different types of film) - reuse the profile for future processes. - develop the RAWs into JPEG - post on google+ and let people be amazed by your photos which have a completely different look&feel than the digital mass products you see everywhere else ;-) Have fun

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Mike Reichardt

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Chris Gent

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