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Fotoeins Friday: Four Frankfurt, ready in wait

If I’m fortunate to make the (near-)annual hop “home” across the big eastern pond, my first stop has and will always be Frankfurt am Main. And if I’m fortunate to arrive in late-spring and summer, there’s an early wake-up alarm, and I’m out the door to the Alte Brücke (Old Bridge) for a view of the city skyline in morning light. Change is also a given certainty, and the skyline “welcomes” the latest development of four new towers in the Four Frankfurt project. From this vantage point, the Main Tower is hidden behind Four’s tower T1.

I made the image above on 12 May 2024 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and settings: f/10, 1/1000-sec, ISO1000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-uM1.

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Fotoeins Friday: Rauscher fountain, Frankfurt Sachsenhausen

In Frankfurt am Main’s Sachsenhausen, the Frau Rauscher (Fraa Rauscher) memorial bronze fountain is an installation of public art created by sculptor Georg Krämer and inaugurated to the public in 1961. People passing by may be surprised when they’re struck by a jet of water “spat” out by the woman in bronze.

I made the image above on 17 Jun 2023 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and settings: f/11, 1/125-sec, ISO1000, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-uMj.

24T02 Hello again, Main-hattan

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It’s travel day number 2, having flown the red-eye over the big eastern pond, and landing in Frankfurt am Main for day 1 in Europe. Frankfurt is a familiar and welcome sight.

With shops closed, I’ve arrived to national statutory holiday Christihimmelfahrt (Ascension of Christ), but it’s also Europe Day, marking the 1950 anniversary of the Schuman declaration.

625pm light on the towers, from Frankfurt central station – 9 May 2024 (iP15).

I made the image above with an iPhone15 on 9 May 2024. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

My Fuji X70: Kodak Color Negative (XTrans2 recipe)

Above/featured: Taunusanlage train station, Frankfurt am Main – 18 Jun 2023.

The Fujifilm X70 mirrorless fixed-lens prime camera has added a lot to my approach to photography for projects in domestic and international scope. To satisfy my curiosity about Fujifilm’s analog-film simulation (film-sim) recipes, I’ve provided examples of X70 images with the following recipes:

•   CineStill 800T
•   Ektachrome 100SW (saturated warm)
•   Fujichrome Slide
•   Kodachrome 64
•   Kodacolor
•   Kodak Platinum 200
•   Monochrome Red

Here I show images made with the “Kodak Color Negative” recipe, which Ritchie Roesch describes in Fuji X Weekly:

… The aesthetic that I was hoping to achieve with this recipe was Kodak Portra 400. I don’t believe that I succeeded in faithfully mimicking that (sometimes there’s a similarity); however, it does seem to produce a Kodak-like color negative film look, perhaps more like Ultramax, but not exactly that, either. Whatever it does or doesn’t resemble, I personally really like the aesthetic produced by this recipe …

The recipe is for X-Trans II sensors and the built-in availability of “Classic Chrome”. The settings on my X70 are:

  • “Classic Chrome” built-in film-sim
  • Dynamic Range: DR200
  • Color: +2 (High)
  • Sharpness: -1 (Medium-Soft)
  • Highlight: -2 (Soft)
  • Shadow: -1 (Medium-Soft)
  • Noise Reduction: -2 (Low)
  • White Balance: Incandescent; +6 Red, -7 Blue
  • ISO: Auto, up to 3200

I assigned this recipe for my “indoor” setting as 1 of the 7 camera’s custom presets, but the recipe’s versatility allowed for additional tests at outside locations. The following JPG images are “almost” straight-out-of-the-camera: only minor adjustments to brightness level and a crop to a predefined image size have been applied, with no corrections to colour, contrast, geometric distortion, or rotation. The blue (“cool”) colour-cast is very real, which is especially evident on images made outdoors under sunny conditions.

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