Up the Feldalphorn.
My morning view at the Alpeninferno.
Street photography workshop in Vienna
In November I flew to Vienna, Austria for a street photography workshop with Severin Koller.
I thought about it for a while before making the booking, because I thought it’s maybe a little decadent to do so. But Nicole quickly convinced me by saying something along the lines of: “You only live once. You like his photos a lot. Go, do it!”. So I booked the workshop, flights and accommodation.
Unfortunately, and to my surprise, the workshop was cancelled two days beforehand and one day before my flight on Tuesday. But lucky me, Severin contacted me directly and suggested to do a workshop just for me. Instead of the originally scheduled 3 days, the workshop took place on two days – one day meeting and shooting and one day in the darkroom. But that was absolutely fine with me, now that I got an exclusive one-on-one training.
So, here are my impressions from these days in Vienna. One roll was shot on my Olympus Trip 35, but most photos were taken with a Canon Canonet G-III QL-17. The films were either Ilford HP-5 Plus, Kodak Tri-X or Ilford FP-4. The rolls were developed in Xtol 1+1 and scanned with the Epson V200.
On Thursday, the first day of the workshop, we met at Café Ritter, had coffees and got to know each other. We then went out, walked on and around Mariahilferstraße and shot quite a few frames before having an early dinner.
334/365: My last day in Vienna. One last coffee with Severin, who handed me my prints and a copy of his Vienna mag.
Went to the Prater in the afternoon. It was not really enjoyable weather. At least it made for a good rainy-day reflection photo. And it’s quite literally a street photograph. ;-)
333/365: Spent the whole Sunday in the darkroom, developing my 7 rolls of film, compiling a best-of selection, making contact sheets, and finally hand-printing 3 of my photos.
Here, Severin is hanging the negatives to dry.
332/365: Samstag, Brunnenmarkt.
331/365: We only met again on Sunday, so I had two days to fill some more rolls. Friday was a heavily overcast day and the light was pretty dim, but I still managed to get some decent exposures.
This was one of them. While not very sharp at 1/30th of a second, I still liked it for the carriage and her look.
330/365: Met up with Severin and spent the day talking and shooting.
329/365: The scooter at my AirBnB (not my host’s).
The workshop was originally planned to start this Wednesday and go on until Friday. Unfortunately, the workshop was cancelled. I already knew on Monday – one day before my flight was going. But lucky me, Severin was so kind to offer me a private workshop instead, so that I could still learn from his skills during my time in Vienna despite the cancellation. Still very happy about that! Thanks again, @severinkoller!
Anyhow, we decided to meet on Thursday, so I had a day “off”. Apart from a short trip to the supermarket, where this photo was taken, I spent the whole day at my AirBnB working.
328/365: Tuesday evening – flying to Vienna for a street photography workshop with Severin Koller.
320/365: Bye bye, hut! We had a great time!
319/365: Dennis chillin’. On the way up to the “Rosskopf” (1731m).