Dr. No Posted April 15 Share #1 Posted April 15 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello, the next Barnack Challenge starts in almost two weeks: 26th of April. The theme will be: Clouds Have fun, hopefully we have lots of participants Yours OLAF Hallo, Die neue Barnack Challenge startet in knapp 2 Wochen und zwar am 26. April. Das Thema lautet: Wolken Viel Spaß, alles Weitere im thread unten! Ich freue mich über ein rege Teilnahme, OLAF 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dr. No Posted April 21 Author Share #2 Posted April 21 Get your Barnacks ready - the next challenge starts on Saturday! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLehmann Posted April 27 Share #3 Posted April 27 That's a nice theme. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrogallol Posted April 27 Share #4 Posted April 27 Last week there were some nice clouds. Today just a hazy clear blue sky. Hopefully there will be some clouds this coming week. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB_tx Posted April 27 Share #5 Posted April 27 4 hours ago, Pyrogallol said: Last week there were some nice clouds. Today just a hazy clear blue sky. Hopefully there will be some clouds this coming week. Our Texas outlook is the same. Maybe time to look for dust clouds, insect clouds, clouds in my coffee, etc. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. No Posted April 27 Author Share #6 Posted April 27 (edited) Now, get the clouds Edited April 27 by Dr. No Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted April 28 Share #7 Posted April 28 Advertisement (gone after registration) Clowns make me nervous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. No Posted May 4 Author Share #8 Posted May 4 Chasing clouds - ohne week to go :)! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. No Posted May 11 Author Share #9 Posted May 11 Now 2 weeks for developing, posting Pictures will be open soon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Zwiers Posted May 13 Share #10 Posted May 13 Interesting subject! When is the deadline for posting pictures? Roland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. No Posted May 17 Author Share #11 Posted May 17 Still one week for developing and uploading your picture for the theme "clouds" Thread will be closed on May 24th. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Zwiers Posted May 18 Share #12 Posted May 18 I saw this too late. So unfortunately I have no time to send in a proper contribution. But when I am at home again I can still contribute a cloud picture by Oskar Barnack himself! That is a picture of a cloudy negative stored in protective paper. In 2023 in the Leitz Museum Archive in Wetzlar I could look through the remaining Oskar Barnack negatives. It struck me that one negative was almost completely filled with clouds. Why would Barnack have made this composition? My working hypothesis is that he self-sensitised a regular colour blind cine negative film so as to make it sensitive to the colours yellow and green. This procedure was used by Leitz for micro-photography as well. One can infer that Oskar Barnack experimented in the same way with 35mm cine negative film for his Ur-Leica. In this way he could use a yellow filter so as to darken the blue sky and bring out the clouds. This negative could then be used to print clouds in prints from cloudless colour blind negatives. In contemporary photo magazines one can find such recommendations. 'How to create clouds?' was one of those evergreen subjects. Roland 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Zwiers Posted May 20 Share #13 Posted May 20 Back home again I found the clouds negative by Oskar Barnack. This negative is on a filmstrip with three other negatives. It is indeed covered in protective paper. For this Barnack challenge I have only selected the negative with the clouds. So I left out the negatives on the left and on the right of the filmstrip. On the next page I present the negative as photographed in the Archive of the Leitz Museum in Wetzlar. The protective paper is clearly visible. For the second picture I inverted the image in photoshop so as to give an impression of what the print may have looked like. It is my impression that Oskar Barnack did not aim at an independent composition. He rather used the opportunity of his colour sensitive film to fill this negatives with clouds. In this way he could use parts of this clouds-negative for inserting clouds in other pictures. This was a normal procedure in the days that most photographic emulsions were still colour blind. The left-out negatives give me the impression that the filmstrip is from a series of pictures that Oskar Barnack took in 1917 in the Black Forest. One of these pictures even suggest that he used an Agfa Fliegerfilm in the Ur-Leica. This Agfa Fliegerfilm was produced for a new generation of German aerial reconnaissance cameras. This is a big subject. I will come back to this in my posting on 100 years Null-Serie. Roland 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Zwiers Posted May 20 Share #14 Posted May 20 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/420496-next-barnack-challenge-starts-at-26th-of-april-theme-clouds/?do=findComment&comment=5804545'>More sharing options...
Roland Zwiers Posted May 20 Share #15 Posted May 20 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/420496-next-barnack-challenge-starts-at-26th-of-april-theme-clouds/?do=findComment&comment=5804546'>More sharing options...
Roland Zwiers Posted May 20 Share #16 Posted May 20 Here is the complete filmstrip. The picture on the right is reproduced in Theo Kisselbach (1955), Das Leica Buch. Roland Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/420496-next-barnack-challenge-starts-at-26th-of-april-theme-clouds/?do=findComment&comment=5804547'>More sharing options...
Dr. No Posted May 22 Author Share #17 Posted May 22 Time until this Saturday 12:00 p.m to upload your cloud picture! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. No Posted May 25 Author Share #18 Posted May 25 (edited) Voting is open!: Everybody can vote - also if you did't turn in a picture! Edited May 25 by Dr. No Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. No Posted June 2 Author Share #19 Posted June 2 Voting is still open till the 8th of June. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. No Posted June 10 Author Share #20 Posted June 10 results of Clouds are published! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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