Wien-er IV

Here are some negscans from the roll of Kodak Plus X 125 that Sev developed (the same roll which came out of the spool during development!).  Moreover, Bernhard discovered I’d used the wrong settings on the camera so basically the shutter speed was at 90 for every single shot – essentially meaning that the exposure was incorrect throughout the roll.  Great huh!

Looking at the negs, they concluded the shots would be rubbish, but I had faith in my pictures! (as well as my editing skills..) So here we have the result (erm, with a bit of tweaking here and there but that’s besides the point).

I’ve edited the levels and converted to monochrome in some of them.  This explains the difference in tones, in case you wonder why there’s variation.  Oh, and they’re all scanned on James’ new neg scanner – very snazzy stuff.

Another one of these delicious shots. 

We went to an amusement park and I went on this ride which was basically a giant ferris wheel.  The views were quite nice. 

James and Sev went on this ride.  It was nuts and looked terrifying.  I was wearing a skirt so didn’t go on it but I wish I had now! Bit of a messy neg this one.

Mmm pizza

Window perving

Brandy eating.. McDonalds! We are a cultured bunch. Taken in the Museum Quarter.

He almost looks like he’s floating..

I’m a bit disappointed this one didn’t come out more in focus.

Sev reckons this next one is the only correctly exposed shot of the bunch ¬_¬

My sunglasses look hot on everyone.

He took this one of Miriam

This cute little boy came wandering towards us and watched us for a while – probably wondering why three people were taking his picture

Minimum editing on this next one.  You can see the tones are different..

Very evil old lady!

Now there’s a story behind this lady.. aaah old Viennese people.. what are they like.  Well, we were on the metro one night and I accidentally bumped into this woman who started nattering away in German.  I didn’t have a clue what she was saying but apparently she was complaining about foreigners.  I said sorry but that only seemed to aggravate her further.

The next evening we were on the underground again and by pure coincidence we saw her complaining to some policemen.  She probably spends her time parading the metro complaining about life.  How emo.  Although this has come out a bit rubbish,  I made sure I got a shot of her so I can always have her wonderful face in my memory haha

On the way to the darkroom I wanted to finish off the last few shots but it was quite dark for 125.  Still, it was worth a try.  Sev looking rather sceptical.. he reckoned it was too dark for this shot to come out but ha, it wasn’t!  I guess M90 came in useful here!

So, yeah, they’re not great but hey, they’re not totally fucked either I’d say!  What did I learn from this?  As Bernhard said to me – RTFM.

Yes, kids – Read The Fucking Manual.  Learn how to use your camera.

There were more shots but these were the most decent ones.  I might stick a couple more up next time, but that’s all for now

Wien-er III

Vienna part 3

This wig rocks – I think everyone wore it at some point!

Sev liked the mug we got him

More wig action.  Yeahhh.

Check out the T-shirt in the top left-hand corner

We went to an Austrian restaurant because we’d eaten Japanese, Chinese, Mexican and other things, but basically nothing very Austrian!

I had this:

It’s wiener schnitzel! It tasted like KFC but it was very good. It came with this:

Although it looks like the contents of apple pie, it’s actually potato salad, and was verrrry delicious.

Goulash:

Brandy had this:

I’m not actually sure what it was but it was very nice indeed.

I love this next one

and this one too – it’s in mid-air! Of course I took the shot knowing it would come out like that. I gots skillz.

Blurry me

I actually owned everyone with that shot but I don’t think anyone was watching when it happened

Random tube shot

Bad boy tram graffiti

Playboy shower gel. A tad tacky perhaps?

This old man had a funky hat with feathers – I screwed up the focus a bit

Back on the train en route to Bratislava to fly home

At the airport – people still don’t understand the concept of not carrying sharp objects on board

It’s easy to forget I guess. I once flew from South Africa to the UK on the first anniversary of September 11th with a lighter-knife in my hand luggage. It wasn’t intentional – I’d simply forgotten I couldn’t carry it with me, and the competent airport security staff saw it through the x-ray, checked my bag, couldn’t find it and let me go through with it. Good job I’m not a terrorist eh!

Travel chess to pass the time. Bratislava’s airport isn’t the most interesting place in the world.

We ate

An interesting picture of a not-very-interesting airport

Fluffiness

Back in England, the heavens open to welcome us home

Brandy kisses her little lamb that made it back in one piece

Some film shots in Part 4.. : )