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Out of place wedding gowns

Jeroen Berkenbosch — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:56:58 +0000

I shot this photograph last year on “de Huizerdag”, an annual local fair. It was a surprise to see a booth selling wedding dresses and wedding suits, since the quality of most products for sale is quite… mediocre.

The guy that owned the booth was patiently sitting on his chair, while nobody seemed to give the out of place gowns a second glance. But suddenly, a young (I think mentally disabled) boy appeared alongside his dad. He was fascinated by the dresses, and stood there for a while.

There’s some sort of wry sadness here. The booth-owner wanted to sell and promote his products, but he only attracted the attention of a young kid during the time I stood there. Which, if I make a wild guess, isn’t his target audience. Notable, since the rest of the booths were crowded with people. Although you can’t really see that on this photograph, so you’ll have to believe my pretty blue eyes.

Shot with my trusty Vivitar 35ES on Kodak Tri-X.

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Ahoy matey!

Jeroen Berkenbosch — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:00:47 +0000

Saw this while taking a walk at the local harbour a while ago. Just in case you’re having a hard time figuring out what the hell these things are: they’re buoys, stacked one some sort of dredging ship. And no, I didn’t draw the smiley face! Mine would’ve been a lot prettier anyway ;)

Shot with my Vivitar 35ES on Kodak Tri-X.

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Some black and white street shots

Jeroen Berkenbosch — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:11:52 +0000

Well, the title says it all, doesn’t it?

They’re shot on Ilford HP5 and Kodak Tri-X, with my Vivitar 35ES rangefinder. I had these scanned professionally as a 2500 dpi tif file. It’s a world of difference between these scans and my own. I didn’t add the borders; they’re a result of the scanning process. I kind of liked them, so I decided not to crop them off.

There are three more photos below!

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Oldskool photography

Jeroen Berkenbosch — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:04:50 +0000

This is the first time in years I shot some images on film. I recently bought a Vivitar 35ES rangefinder and these pictures are the result of it’s first test run. It is really awkward to shoot film again. I have to admit that I’m a bit lazy when it comes to aligning horizontal lines correctly while shooting. It’s a lot easier to straighten photos in Lightroom. It’s a bad idea to do this while shooting film though, as you can see on the photos.

Anyway, I really enjoy this little camera. And shooting film is fun too. There is a downside though. I’m really (unpleasantly) surprised by the cost of developing film and printing the photos. I’ll have to find a solution for this if I want to continue to shoot on film.

Well, enough with the talking. Check out the photos after the jump. I used Ilford Delta 400 for these photos if anyone cares ;)

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