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Walk to Wawel Castle

As usual I don’t have much time for photography, but it’s about time to post some new images ;-) This season I’m shooting mostly with analog cameras (have four of them) and I recently bought dedicated film scanner so I can now share with you these three photos I took when I was walking to Wawel Castle in Cracow during one of my weekend trips. Nothing special, but maybe you’ll like them. Sorry for not including exposure times and F numbers, but I’m not writing down settings for each analog photo. Also its not possible to guess settings when using A mode or fully automatic camera :-)


Minolta XD-7, Minolta MD Rokkor 45mm F2, Fuji Superia 200


Olympus mju II, Fuji Superia 200


Minolta XD-7, Minolta MD Rokkor 45mm F2, Fuji Superia 200

July 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Photo riddle

Today I’ll show you results of my little photo experiment. Normally I would trash this photo because it has a bit too much sky which should be replaced by more pond reflections, I’ll however make an exception to ask you a question: how was the “painting” effect achieved? You’ll probably say “post process of course…”. Wrong! This image was imported from RAW without any changes and only automatic levels correction was applied later to remove green color cast. As usual full EXIF is attached to either help you finding correct answer or mislead you ;-) Have fun and feel free to ask additional questions if finding solution seems too hard.


Sony DSLR-A700, Minolta 100mm F2.8 Macro
1/60 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200, 100 mm (150 mm equivalent)

Update: its time to share solution to my riddle. Image above was taken with macro lens, however I wasn’t photographing pond and building but single frame from negative shot with analog camera few days earlier. Sun was used as light source and single sheet of paper from my printer was placed between negative and sunlight to create texture. That + minimal our of focus and voila. We have our painting. Just invert it and do automatic color correction in your favourite graphic software.

P.S. Original image was taken with Minolta X300s and MD Rokkor 24/2.8 at F8, 1/500 sec.

June 6th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Gray and gloomy

Here is little pond near my workplace on a very dull and foggy winter day. I’d really love not having winter at all in my region.


Sony DSLR-A700, Sony 16-105mm F3.5-5.6
1/100 sec, f/8, ISO 1600, 16 mm (24 mm equivalent)

April 6th, 2011 | 1 Comment