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  • X-ray photography

    11. Februar 2023 /
    Dahlia X-ray photogram © Julian Köpke
    Dahlia X-ray photogram © Julian Köpke
    Rose mammography X-ray positive photography © Julian Köpke
    Rose mammography X-ray positive photography © Julian Köpke
    How I can see my personal favourite chocolate before I open it © Julian Köpke
    How I can see my personal favourite chocolate before I open it © Julian Köpke
    Black swan: pumpkins and fir cones X-ray photo © Julian Köpke
    Black swan: pumpkins and fir cones X-ray photo © Julian Köpke
    Oak leaves with acorns X-ray photo L-inversion © Julian Köpke
    Oak leaves with acorns X-ray photo L-inversion © Julian Köpke
    X-ray photo of a ball from snail shells L-channel inverted © Julian Köpke
    X-ray photo of a ball from snail shells L-channel inverted © Julian Köpke
    Grape X-ray photo © Julian Köpke
    Grape X-ray photo © Julian Köpke
    Spider conch (lambis lambis) © Julian Köpke
    Spider conch (lambis lambis) © Julian Köpke
    X-ray three tulips © Julian Köpke
    X-ray three tulips © Julian Köpke
    Energy difference X-ray photo of a Nautilus shell. The fusion image is the difference of a 70kV and a 40 kV image in X-ray positive representation. © Julian Köpke
    Energy difference X-ray photo of a Nautilus shell. The fusion image is the difference of a 70kV and a 40 kV image in X-ray positive representation. © Julian Köpke
    Digital X-ray photo of a sunflower (inverted representation). © Julian Köpke
    Digital X-ray photo of a sunflower (inverted representation). © Julian Köpke
    X-Ray positive of a Nautilus with flowers as Argonauts © Julian Köpke
    X-Ray positive of a Nautilus with flowers as Argonauts © Julian Köpke
    Odyssey (light inversion) © Julian Köpke
    Odyssey (light inversion) © Julian Köpke
    Odyssey © Julian Köpke
    Odyssey © Julian Köpke
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  • Black & White

    11. Februar 2023 /
    Mountain chain Eiger Mönch Jungfrau. There will be a weather change. © Julian Köpke
    Mountain chain Eiger Mönch Jungfrau. There will be a weather change. © Julian Köpke
    2020 Tunnel View and Bridalveil Fall © Julian Köpke
    2020 Tunnel View and Bridalveil Fall © Julian Köpke
    Villa d'Este, Tivoli © Julian Köpke
    Villa d'Este, Tivoli © Julian Köpke
    Crepuscular light at Heceta Head © Julian Köpke
    Crepuscular light at Heceta Head © Julian Köpke
    Black Forest near Hinterzarten © Julian Köpke
    Black Forest near Hinterzarten © Julian Köpke
    Dettifoss detail western drop edge © Julian Köpke
    Dettifoss detail western drop edge © Julian Köpke
    Skogafoss time fusion. Walking behind the curtain. © Julian Köpke
    Skogafoss time fusion. Walking behind the curtain. © Julian Köpke
    Moonrise in Yosemite Valley © Julian Köpke
    Moonrise in Yosemite Valley © Julian Köpke
    Bridal Veil fall © Julian Köpke
    Bridal Veil fall © Julian Köpke
    Farmstead in the Black Forest © Julian Köpke
    Farmstead in the Black Forest © Julian Köpke
    Tori in Heidelberg (Kumamoto) © Julian Köpke
    Tori in Heidelberg (Kumamoto) © Julian Köpke
    Lemon balm leaves on ice © Julian Köpke
    Lemon balm leaves on ice © Julian Köpke
    Tufts of grass © Julian Köpke
    Tufts of grass © Julian Köpke
    Fern bright © Julian Köpke
    Fern bright © Julian Köpke
    Fern © Julian Köpke
    Fern © Julian Köpke
    Forest floor © Julian Köpke
    Forest floor © Julian Köpke
    Light and shades of grey © Julian Köpke
    Light and shades of grey © Julian Köpke
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  • Blossfeldt studies

    11. Februar 2023 /
    Silver leaf © Julian Köpke
    Heucheria leaf © Julian Köpke
    Fern © Julian Köpke
    Thuja conifer © Julian Köpke
    Thuja (Abendländischer Lebensbaum) © Julian Köpke
    Clematis I © Julian Köpke
    Tendrils © Julian Köpke
    Poppy capsule © Julian Köpke
    Blooming thistle at the former railroad tracks © Julian Köpke
    Poppy © Julian Köpke
    Blossfeldt Acorn © Julian Köpke
    Vetch © Julian Köpke

    If you ever have the opportunity to see the work of the photographic pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932), then perhaps you will also be as moved and fascinated as I am time and again. In 2014, Taschen-Verlag Cologne published a book about him entitled „Karl Blossfeldt The Complete Published Work“ (ISBN 978-3-8365-5072-7), which I have kept near my bedside table for years.

    Karl Blossfeldt was interested in the forms that occur in nature and which he understood as „archetypes“. His main work was published in 1928 under the title „Urformen der Natur“ (translated version as „Art Forms in Nature“, 1928) and became an international bestseller.

    On his way to college, he collected plants that he used as a source of inspiration for his work as a professor of decorative arts. His photographic works are monochromatic and usually made by placing the object on photosensitive paper. Technically, therefore, they are actually to be addressed as photograms and not as photographs, because the image was not based on any imaging optics. X-ray images are also photograms, but with a central beam geometry. Therefore, in a very free interpretation, Karl Blossfeldt’s works could be placed in the middle between photography and X-ray images.

    The images in this gallery are created with photographic optics and a digital sensor. Photographs of plants or better: parts of plants, which highlight selected structures, are excellently suited for a monochrome presentation. Harold Davis describes one way of creating the look-and-feel of a Blossfeldt image with the help of a photograph. Harold calls the result „The Blossfeldt effect“.

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  • Food,  Monochrome,  X-Ray

    Chocolate

    20. Januar 2023 / No Comments

    4 bars of chocolate were meant as a reward for a calendar of the year 2023. To eat, of course. However, it is a special pleasure to subject them to an X-ray examination with the mammography before opening them. After three attempts, I placed them on top of each other, which is why their penetration with radiation required 20% more energy so that the image was not underexposed.

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  • Monochrome

    Quiet time in Black Forest

    24. August 2022 / No Comments

    What happens to green leaves when I turn them into black and white? Again and again I photographed ferns. During a hike in the Black Forest I photographed groups of different leaves with different shades of green and brightness.

    The result was clear to me beforehand. I had found such an idea in the images of Ansel Adams. 

    Forest floor © Julian Köpke

    Less subtle is the following motif with a wooden bench for tired hikers. In this image the fern, the bench and the stone marker are the brightest objects.

    Bench and fern at forest path Obertal © Julian Köpke

    Different hues of green lead to different levels of brightness in the black and white cosmos. Our destination for the day was Lake Buhlbach, which unfortunately could no longer be circumnavigated on foot in the newly opened national park.

    Reflections in a pond (Buhlbachsee) © Julian Köpke
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  • Landscape,  Monochrome,  Sylt

    Departure from realism II

    5. Mai 2021 / No Comments

    The basic question of the creative photographer is, wether the representation of a photograph is literal or a departure from reality as projected in his „mind’s eye“. An expressive image is photographer’s goal. When the interaction of the different factors of exposure, aperture and camera characteristics is well understood, creative freedom knows no limits. Positively speaking: the sky is the limit.

    The scenario of an almost threatening thunderstorm cloud, which, however, is still in a protective distance, is sometimes surprising on the beach. The tetrapods on my image will protect the island from flooding, but not us from rain. 

    A colored picture blurs this impression completely. Black and white rendering clearly shows the energy inherent in a thundercloud. We came across this cloud at Hörnum and it accompanied us all along the beach.

    Thunderclouds near Hörnum © Julian Köpke

    Just a short time before, I managed to capture the impression of a constantly beautiful weather with a cool wind and gentle waves. A strong sun pushes away all dark thoughts. On the horizon, the clouds are raining a bit.

    Tetrapods at Hörnum © Julian Köpke

    Many times we are waiting. We like to draw strength from contemplation. Time is passing by imperceptibly, almost a little too fast.

    Clouds near List © Julian Köpke

    With color photos expressive images can also be created. The true brightness values of a color image like to deceive our eyes. Quantitative estimation with the help of Lab color display is a great help in the accurate determination of brightness values. To make an image look like I had it in my „mind’s eye“.

    Thunderclouds above pastureland at Ellbogen, Sylt © Julian Köpke
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  • Landscape,  Monochrome,  Sylt,  Travel

    Departure from realism

    3. Mai 2021 / No Comments

    An idea of Ansel Adams regarding the reality of a photo keeps me captive. His best photos, as he writes in hisbook “The Negative”, are often described by viewers as truly realistic. But they’re not. On the contrary. These would often have been the most intensively worked on by him.

    He repeatedly insists in this book that the best images would have been those in which he left reality in the processing to show what he wanted to show or felt.

    I am often impressed by the clouds passing by or the play of clouds in the sky. In a colored picture, I don’t quite succeed in directing the weight of the picture to the clouds in the sky. Despite the use of filters with and without gradients, the color image is beautifully colored and bright, but the desired focus is lost. With black and white pictures, it seems to be easier.

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  • General,  Macro,  Monochrome

    Fibonacci numbers

    3. Februar 2021 / No Comments

    I wanted to study shadows of simple bodies again today. It all started with an egg last week. The shadow of last week’s egg photo was ring-shaped. I noticed that, but it didn’t bother me. Could the ring shape of the shadow be overcome by skillful selection of light and would the backside of the egg lie entirely in the shadow? This assignment was given to me by a school friend, who himself is a professional photographer.

    Shadow cast of an egg © Julian Köpke
    Shadow cast of an egg © Julian Köpke

    The shadow looks better today, with a little help from Photoshop.

    A neighbor had given me simple bodies, which I placed like an egg on the white background. First of all as a play with form and shadow, where I had to think of the X-ra image of a human hand.

    Shadow cast of building blocks on white © Julian Köpke

    The small  wooden blocks were wonderfully colorful. Unfortunately, I didn’t have as many as my imagination would have liked. Arranged in concentric circles, they are delightful to the eyes. At the suggestion of a friend, I arranged, the number of blocks into Fibonacci numbers. The processing of the shadows leads to an exciting image, similar to solarization. Since it is a kind of negative, I named the picture after the impression it makes: „Flow of light“, although in reality it was the shadows of the blocks.

    Shadows around building blocks sorted in circles of Fibonacci numbers © Julian Köpke
    Shadows around building blocks sorted in circles of Fibonacci numbers © Julian Köpke
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  • Macro,  Monochrome

    Light and shades of grey

    26. Januar 2021 / No Comments

    Shades of grey in interaction with light: this is a theme for monochromatic images. For a long time I wanted to photograph an egg against a white background. The idea was stimulated by photos, mostly of people I know personally. Geometric, white-colored bodies from the mathematical collection would also be fun for me. Unfortunately, access is not as easy for me as with an egg.

    Light and shades of grey © Julian Köpke

    On the left side the egg is brighter than the background, on the right side it is the other way round. The background itself loses a little brightness from the left to the right, but is brighter than the the egg on the right. The contrast changes. There is no clearly defined shadow for this setup. The same is true in the next photograph.

    White egg on a white background © Julian Köpke

    With the help of a simple light source whose color temperature does not matter after conversion into a black and white image, a soft shadow can be achieved if the source is not point-shaped.

    Shadow cast of an egg © Julian Köpke
    Shadow cast of three eggs on white © Julian Köpke
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  • Landscape,  Monochrome,  Yosemite National Park

    Yosemite Valley

    4. Dezember 2020 / No Comments

    It is always overwhelming to be on the road in Yosemite Valley. One is welcomed by silence and forest air. One of the points that provide an easily accessible overview is the former parking area for road construction machinery at the tunnel to the south: Tunnel View.

    2020 Tunnel View and Bridalveil Fall © Julian Köpke

    Everything slows down when you dive in there. The modern distractions are eliminated. The internet connectivity is so slow that you can’t present your pictures to anyone else while you are there. It’s a pity for those being at home.

    Native americans lived in this valley and were given plenty of water. That has changed in the meantime. Precipitation is missing. An endangered jewel of this earth. It was a privilege to have been there with a friend and to be allowed to take pictures

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