RetroCamera http://www.retrocamera.net Old retrocamera equipment in a digital photography world. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Drawings and paintings http://www.retrocamera.net/drawings-and-paintings.html http://www.retrocamera.net/drawings-and-paintings.html#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:59:20 +0000 Mattias http://www.retrocamera.net/?p=955 I’ve started a group at Ipernity for Drawings and paintings – welcome to join if you want. I know – a bit outside the scope of this site about photography and cameras, but this work is a big thing for my photography. From the beginning I am a painter and I get a lot of my ideas, composition, feeling, inspiration from the history of art and from my own work. I think it is a good thing – an image is an image and people have been creating them since long before the photography of today.

Here you see a slideshow of my album with drawings and paintings.

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Sup-Tak 85/1.9 on Spotmatic again
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Bending leafs
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Dawn behind flower
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Leaf bokeh

Akleja och fluga - Mattias Wirf

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Wood love
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IMG_0451
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Hepatica Nobilis 1, 2010
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Swans at lake Tysslingen

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Spring2009

Today the snow came back.

Setback

On the other hand I got a “new”, old camera I got from my father. More info soon :)

First image shot with Pentacon 50mm/1.8, next one shot with Super-Takumar 85mm/1.9 and plastic bag.

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