About us

Fig. 1: Bear
Fig. 2: Tiger

The Bear probably stood in a darkroom for the first time at the age of 4. His first shots were taken at the age of 8 with a pocket camera. Later, he took photos with his dad’s Agfa Retinette I A, and then with the smallest SLR camera in the world, the Pentax A110 – both of which still work today. The Bear learned how to take photos with a Minolta SLR camera from the school’s photography club and later with his own Minolta 7000. At the age of 15, black-and-white negative films were developed and printed in the photography club and in his own darkroom in the basement.

The Tiger started out with a Praktica.

The first digital camera was the Agfa 6400, followed by the Canon Ixus. Since then, a lot of cameras have been tried and discarded. In the end, the Bear stuck with Canon and the Tiger with Fujifilm.

For more than 15 years, we have basically shot digital images in RAW and further processed them using Capture One. Every now and then, the darkroom and all the old treasures are reactivated.

We appreciate the slowness of analog photography, but nowadays we are reluctant to do without the advantages of digital technology. The result is a workflow between worlds: whenever possible, we use autofocus – but usually with a specific, manually set focus point. Our images are taken almost exclusively as single shots and are later carefully post-processed. Only in wildlife photography does the Bear use eye-detection autofocus and occasionally takes burst shots.