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Analog
Just picked up my developed pics.
I am sooo excited, like I started photography all over again.
Digital photography doesn't compete with analog on the exciting part.
Nothing so exciting as handing in a film, and waiting for the development, and the first look at the fresh pics. Are they good or not?
The surprise.
To understand this feeling, one needs to experience a dark room. The moment your negative is projected onto the paper, and the white paper goes into the developper.
Pure Magic.
Hmmmmm.
It is probably a rather filosophical way of looking upon photography, but the fact that with digital the 'now' becomes 'past' by the immediate review on the back of the camera changes the situation around you.
You probably recognize the situation in which people start to review freshly taken pics on the back of their cameras, instead of enjoying the situation itself.
It's like we all became little Japanese people who travel around and film/take pictures but who's journey starts at home while watching their trip, and thus seeing things for the first time.
I'll refuse to show any pictures on New Year's Eve, not because I don't want to show them, but because I want to enjoy the night as a 'NOW' event, and not as a memory before it actually became a memory.
Hope my companions understand this ;°)
(Yep, I a know you are reading it...)
Posted on December 30, 2005
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Budgets...
(as seen in Hong Kong, shopping delight)
Posted on December 30, 2005
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In Brussels
Posted on December 30, 2005
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Interviews
We are doing a series of interviews for a client.
And it is so interesting.
I so love my job.
(But I am dead tired today...)
©Ine Dehandschutter
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Posted on May 5, 2007
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Farmers
Although I am very much busy with web design, these days I have the luxury to be more in photography.
Luxury, coz the sun is shining outside and I have been taking pictures in the fields for several days now.
Translated: I jump on my motorcycle, cross the country to picture some people/fields/animals.
Photography is a rather intense job. I always underestimate it: when away for one day, at the end I am really tired of 'seeing'.
But I really love it. And what's better: I am getting paid for it :)
(All images ©Ine Dehandschutter)
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Posted on May 5, 2007
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Photography in a changing world...
I was in an interview yesterday with Paul D'Hoore, who at a certain point was talking about the changes in economy due to the globalization.
His point to take notice of was 'It is true certain jobs are disappearing in our region, because of the simple fact they move towards countries that have much cheaper labor. But does it mean, there are no jobs left? No, there are other jobs, economy is shifting.
I think we see a similar shift in different things. For example music. The music shop disappears. But these people find themselves other ways.
A similar thing is happening with photography.
Due to digital era, and the fact that we, in the West, became more resourceful, and the digital era allows us to spread our images, more 'amateur' photographers are born. Good ones!
Photography will never dissapear, especially because more than ever we became a 'visual world' and large companies, now more than ever, want their actvities to be captured in pictures.
See it as the computer/printer: before it commercialized, all was written, some stuff was printed. Upon arrival of the computer everybody said paper was dead. 30 years later the rain forrest is still dissapearing due to paper production.
Now they say true news-photography is dying and professional photographers will loose their jobs.
The truth is: all is only shifting: news photography is going to be made by the public (the amateur becomes the reporter), while we will look for good filters (because of an overdosis of images) and prof. photographers get different (rather well paid) jobs.
It only just started, guys...
Frankly speaking, I am not worried at all.
(I only hope the amateur photographer does try to learn the language rather than just point and shoot.)
(Tx Pascal for the link)
Reference: a talk with Carl De Keyzer on the subject
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Posted on May 5, 2007
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Professional something
Pietel is writing on photography, and professionalism.
And how amateurs become professionals.
I believe not so much has changed between before and now.
In photography it is worth to check how many professional photographers actually did the studies of photography.
Not too many.
And of those who did photography, I wonder how many learned their knowledge in school.
Photography never was a job that needed a diploma.
Not one newspaper would ask for it on solicitation. You needed to show pictures, and if they ware good, they might buy them. If not, well, go home and learn a little more, try harder.
Today it is still the same story. Amateurs will look how become a professional photographer if they feel it. If it runs in their blood.
They'll make a living from it. Ask for a VAT number and be able to invoice their jobs.
Others will just stay what they are: good amateurs.
Basically in photography, there has always been this filtering of different fields of interest:
professional photographers still make a whole lot of money on weddings, while other people just want their best friend/good amateur to picture the wedding, because they don't want to spend the money.
Nothing has changed on that matter today. Not the arrival of digital photography.
Because in the end it is still the photographer who pictures, not the camera.
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Posted on May 7, 2007
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