Robert is sometimes out of breath. Through his studies of visual communication in the eighth semester at the Bauhaus University Weimar, he is often busy finding new ideas, derivations and perspectives for the most diverse projects. That's exhausting. Every now and then, he has these breathless moments. But this time it was precisely these moments that inspired the "Luft ¾" project. Even inflatable animals know when they run out of air. So Robert came up with the idea of photographing them - without much 'filling'. Subsequent computer technology overlays are supposed to make the image unrecognisable later. The idea is that the viewer sees something he can't quite place. He only notices that it is something that is crumpled, broken and flat - that the air is out.

When the photos are exhibited, however, the inflatable animals are also to be distributed around the room. In this way, the viewer can look for the corresponding counter-object to the photo. So that it doesn't just remain an idea, more macro photos are scheduled for today. This is already the third attempt. In the previous ones you could still see too much of the shape of the objects. Together with fellow student Nancy, who is advising him today, they photograph the same section of each inflatable animal five times, each time with different points of focus. At the end, an image processing programme combines the photos into a high-resolution macro image. Since the glossy surfaces of the plastic animals are very reflective and sometimes transparent, it is not easy to place the light points correctly.

Pansy is above all interested in the relationship between the two objects, because for her they symbolise the sometimes unsparing relationship between man and woman. In her eyes, the flowers embody life, love and death. They need air to live. If there is no air, the flowers die. Fortunately, one of her friends had an old bouquet lying at home. Pansy had first tried to find some in Weimar flower shops. But there she often only heard: "We don't sell dead flowers.

The experience she had already gained in Canada with special software now stands her in good stead. Some of the photos she took yesterday in the studio she is improving today using an image editing programme in the Photo Workshop's computer pool. In this way, Pansy makes colour corrections, adjusts contrasts and removes small reflections, for example. After her studies, she wants to work in the field of packaging design, says Pansy. She is convinced that the knowledge she has gained in the field of photography will later also be useful for designing juice packaging, for example.

What sounds simple is actually quite complicated. Every single step has its own pitfalls. Photographing with large-format technology, choosing the right photo paper and also the exact choice of exposure time need to be carefully considered and require numerous test runs. The result is impressive in any case. The large, analogue photos have a different effect than digital pictures, if only because of their sharpness. They were exhibited at summaery2015 in the old state bank in Weimar's Steubenstraße and on the internet at www.statusgold.de/wordpress/.

Even though Clemens enjoyed working in the large-format darkroom: his favourite in the Photo Workshop is the colour darkroom. It's more for the impatient. "The whole process happens here in a single machine. You expose your picture, push it in at one end and after 4 minutes it comes out fully developed, stopped, fixed, watered and dried," Clemens explains. Next semester, better colour photos after all?