The friend who posed for this picture informed me that it was 15 years ago.
East Berlin
I was new to medium format, and to handheld meters, but I nailed the exposure on Kodak Tech Pan. I perched my tripod on a flatbed truck, and shot this with my 80mm Zeiss lens.
Mike was wearing an East German Colonel’s uniform, and the idea was to express the state of affairs in the former Soviet Bloc in 1999 with a little humor.
Technical Data:
East Berlin
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM.
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Kodak Tech Pan developed in Kodak Technidol.
