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I am asking myself a question all the time: A few decades ago (and even still) it was not possible to obtain cameras with good optic or even other features to deliver a photo with good quality, objectively speaking, without distortion, blur, colour infrin…
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This the title of the book I am reading now. Here is a link to the publisher's page: http://www.merrellpublishers.com/books.php I always admired impressionism as a school of art and I did not know that photography had such a movement and that…
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I went today visit an exhibition on "Czech Photography of the 20th Century": www.kah-bonn.de/index_e.htm It was quite inspiring and I was mostly inspired by the old techniques of printing like OIl Prints, Gum Prints and many other processes. I am going to…
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I am reading for the moment the following book on photography with Flash: The Hot Show Diaries by Joe McNally http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=032160248X The author wrote the book in the form of a funny (well this is subjective, and one has…
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Dear friends, Last week I went to see the opening of a beautiful exhibition of the photographer Antonio Girbés. It is in fact the series "Untitleds" in this website: http://www.antoniogirbes.com/ Would you please have a look at it and tell me what you thi…
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HI everybody, I'll be away for 2 weeks and I'll come back on the 21st. Perhaps I'll have then a few nice pictures from Syria to share with you ;-) I wish you a great Easter
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Today I particiapted in a demonstration against the Israeli agression on Palestine in Düsseldorf/Germany. There were something like 4000 remonstrants from all possible groups, parties and individuals, Germans, Arabs and Kurds, etc. I went there to demons…
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I started a group called Protests against war in Gaza (Group) The aim of the group is to document the protests against the Gaza war. So, if you happen to have made pictures of protests against this war, you are more than welcome to add them to this pool
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I bought the other day a set of fine art print papers to print a few pictures to be sent to a friend as a gift. I soon had to figure out and after I wasted a few sheets of expensive paper (and ink) that it was not possible (or I did not achieve it) to mak…
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Well my friends, probably most thing I like is to look at beautiful pictures and share them with you. However, I do not feel like doing that now. I can't do this while people are dying in this horrible manner in Palestine (in this case Gaza) and nobody is…