The Catalogue No. 01

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G-&-B

 

 

 2021: from left to right:

 

* Greg aka G3busa - punk, video 

enthusiast, has computer, 

occasional bass guitar 

molester

 

* Bub Cot aka 3bus

 

 

 

 

I received an older full-frame digital camera 

body and two adapters for my old analogue 

lenses in April 2021. I was convinced the 

digital-eye would be a good addition to my 

analogue set of old medium format cameras.


First B&W digital shots at fully open aperture 

(1.4) left me deeply disappointed. The images 

were bleak, grays were boring and blacks reminded 

me of washed out ink spots. I repeated the experiment 

with color filters (Leitz and Zeiss - yellow, orange, red). 

The results increased my frustration, so I bought an 

expensive monitor and some cheap chinese color 

filters for B&W photography at 2,5€ a piece.


As much as I would like to hide my vision behind 

someone else's writing, to save my slow night and 

preserve a fragment of dignity, I cannot. It was 

first time in my life I knew what I was doing and 

what to expect from the results. Here are few 

ground rules for my B&W photography:

* cast away your own expectations and convictions 

on how the photography should look like.

  

* shoot in maximum radius of 3 km from home. 

 

* do not remove “disturbing” elements from the 

shooting-scene but try to use them in the composition. 

 

* search not for the motives. Focus on banalities 

and learn to look at the spaces between the objects. 

Let the lense create its own mythology. Let the 

lense become your rorschach test and the finder 

of our phantasms and folklore origins. 

 

* do not censor unpleasant contents. 

 

* shoot in diffused light, at low light (dusk, dawn, 

dark), in the rain, in excessive light.

  

* use only 50mm lenses at apertures 1.4, 2.0 and 2.8.

  

* use only cheap color filters. Obnoxiously green 

and blue filters are recommended.

  

* use the camera in manual mode. Autofocus is 

not desired. Try to avoid using a stand if it is not 

necessary. 

 

* do not use your own artificial light sources 

(flashes, photo bulbs and led lights, etc). You 

may use light sources such as room lights, 

street lights, traffic lights, city lights… 

 

* photo-retouching is not desirable in post-processing. 

 

* cropping of pictures is not desirable. 

 

* do not waste too much time over editing the 

photos. Try to not make them too sterile.

 

* the images will not have titles. We leave them 

to your Imagination. 

* when you get tired of it, break the rules

 

* cast away your own expectations and convictions 

on how the photography should look like.

In May I got a companion in this weird 

and lonely adventure. Together with my 

neighbor's son in law we’re learning to 

draw the difference between looking 

and seeing.

                                                    B-or-G

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