Welcome to my private photo blog. I'll use this place to
present my photographic works.
My favorite fields in photography by now are travel
photography and concert photography. I also did a lot of
product photography in the past 2 years, but these pics are
not shown here. It all started in 2005, when
I accidently travelled to India with two friends. To take
some memories home from this trip I bought my first camera
kit. Memories are something very important in men's life
and one should not loose them so easily - especially if they
are not reproducible by normal means. I tend to consider
this fact as a central argument for barely photographing
my daily life - daily reality simply seems to be too present
to be archived :).
So, on the trip to India I discovered two new hobbies of
mine: traveling and photography. By that time my photography
was limited to analog equipment, and I still prefer my analog
camera while traveling. With analog equipment you are less
dependent of occasions to recharge your power cells (the
alternatives - using a battery grip and / or taking more
power cells - again would mean higher weight). Also, aquiring
a (good) true wide angle lens is less connected to significant
costs, and the potential of robbery in critical areas is
less a criteria to leave the camera in a secure place instead
of using it
By means of photographing style I was first
mostly impressed of the ability of the taken picture to show
details in the fore- and background beyond the depth of field
area of the human eye by using apertures as closed as available
light would allow. Speaking of your viewing habits
the results might not be, what you are too familiar with,
or they might be, what is considered a common mistake of
beginners taking pictures. I still like pictures offering
an open, unguided cognition to the spectators eye.
In 2007 I additionally purchased a digital body for use at home - for product photography and for experiments and learning, and for short trips nearby. With digital photography and the possibility to completetly alter almost every aspect of a taken picture by digital image processing a trend was created, that left many hobby photographers screwing up their images themself, wether to leave that in the hands of a laboratory. For me as a matter of principle the photographing process ends when hitting the shutter release button, and in most cases I'll guide a bad picture straight to the trash bin, if slight DIP will not help it. On the other hand, sometimes you don't have that choice, or speaking of photo art, it might not be what you are after at all, so don't take that philosophy of mine as a testamental statement.
Enough of the prattle! This homepage exists to present photographies and to give you some knowledge about it. Photography to remind you of the world outside of your own,
to engage people to leave their natural homes and to travel around a bit, to visit and experience other cultures. Viva la interculture*!
* be that ethnical culture, subcultur, gender culture, animal culture ... |
