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Sometimes it´s just magical! My 50mm, that is :)
© Andy Brandl (2012)
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Sometimes it isn't that easy to distinguish between flying and reality. Is this how we percieve our own conscience?
Hay veces que no es tan fácil distinguir entre volar y la realidad. ¿Es así como percibimos nuestra propia consciencia?
"Can't decide if he was really tall
or if it's just a matter or perception
here! What do Y'all think?"
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"Hope all of you have a wonderful
warm weekend ahead!"
~Mary Lou
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Vernissage der ersten gemeinsamen Ausstellung von Ali Görmez (50 FACES & MORE) und Wolfgang Brückner (STRUKTUR-
FORSCHER) im Waldorf Astoria Berlin (19. Etage) - 27. März 2015
* Ali Görmez *
Ob im Fahrstuhl, auf der Straße, im Büro oder auf Veranstaltungen. Gesichter sind allerorts. Überall treffen wir auf sie und beginnen sie in unterschiedliche Situationen einzuordnen, Mimiken zu deuten und zu verstehen. In Gesichtern finden wir unser Verständnis, unsere Zugehörigkeit, unsere Abneigungen und eigene Tiefen.
Auch Pop Art Künstler Ali Görmez liebt Gesichter. Dabei geht es nicht um das Einschätzen und Zuordnen von Schönheit. Denn der Künstler weiß, dass sich Gesichter schnell verstellen können, um sich unverwundbar, stark oder kompetent zu zeigen. Er weiß auch, dass das, was vielleicht im ersten Moment gelingen mag, auf den zweiten verblasst.
Für Ali Görmez sind Gesichter Geschichten und Emotionen. Emotionen, in die er eintauchen möchte. Dabei sucht der Künstler die Tür, um hinter die Fassade blicken zu können, um die Geschichte und das Erlebte zu lesen und den Umgang mit diesem zu verstehen.
* Wolfgang Brückner *
Ausgangspunkt für das Projekt STRUKTURFORSCHER war u.a. die Beobachtung, dass die Identität und Besonderheiten der Lage von Gebäuden und Wohnanlagen meist in den Innenräumen schlagartig verschwindet. Selbst große prunkvolle Bauwerke verlieren in ihren Innenräumen schnell an Ausstrahlung. Und wenn Kunst Teil der Inneneinrichtung ist, hat sie selten einen logischen Zusammenhang mit den Gebäuden und der Umgebung. Wolfgang Brückners Bilder schaffen einerseits eine Identifikation und „Verbrüderung“ mit dem jeweiligen Gebäude, anderseits auch „Traum-Fenster“ in die nähere Umgebung, die eigentlich das zeigen, was z. B. hinter den Mauern zu sehen wäre, wenn der Architekt ein Fenster in eine erweiterte Wahrnehmung hätte bauen können.
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Opening NEUE HORIZONTE I - Waldorf Astoria, Berlin 2015
Opening of the first joint exhibition by Ali Görmez (50 FACES & MORE) and Wolfgang Brückner (STRUKTURFORSCHER) at Waldorf Astoria Berlin (19th floor) - March 27, 2015
* Ali Görmez *
Whether in the elevator, on the street, in the office or at events. Faces are everywhere. We encounter them everywhere and begin to categorize them in different situations, to interpret and understand facial expressions. In faces we find our understanding, our affiliation, our dislikes and our own depths.
Pop artist Ali Görmez also loves faces. But it is not about assessing and classifying beauty. The artist knows that faces can quickly disguise themselves in order to appear invulnerable, strong or competent. He also knows that what may be successful at first glance fades the second time around.
For Ali Görmez, faces are stories and emotions. Emotions that he wants to immerse himself in. In doing so, the artist seeks the door to be able to look behind the façade, to read the story and the experience and to understand how to deal with it.
* Wolfgang Brückner *
One of the starting points for the STRUKTURFORSCHER project was the observation that the identity and special features of the location of buildings and residential complexes usually disappear abruptly in the interiors. Even large, magnificent buildings quickly lose their charisma in their interiors.And when art is part of the interior design, it rarely has a logical connection with the buildings and their surroundings.Wolfgang Brückner's pictures create an identification and "fraternization" with the respective building on the one hand, but also "dream windows" into the immediate surroundings on the other, which actually show what could be seen behind the walls, for example, if the architect had been able to build a window into an expanded perception.
What seems so obvious to us, may not be true at all. Life can be what it is not; or what we don't think it is.
copyright, 2012, Ferran Cubedo.
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An experimental image from a photo shoot I did of Aztec Two-Step 2.0 for the Towne Crier Café in Beacon NY
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'what is really reversed in a mirror is our perception'
Photo of False Klamath Cove captured off U.S. Highway 101, the Redwood Highway, via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 75-200mm F/4.5 lens. In the unincorporated, rural and census-designated place of Klamath. Coast Range. North Coast. Del Norte County, Northern California. "State of Jefferson." Late June 2016.
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Film Plug-In: Fuji Velvia 100
copyright, 2012, Ferran Cubedo.
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Somehow I didn't announce it on Flickr earlier, but better late then never, so...
This weekend I will be leading a Street Photography Workshop in Lublin, Poland. The main focus will be on the "street perception" itself - how to look at the city space and search for unique moments, how to connect the dots to create surprising new meaning. I will also be talking about useful tips and techniques, working on projects, editing photos to create series/stories, etc.
Friday will be the theoretical introduction, setting goals for next day. Saturday will be practical - shooting in the streets, but not typical photo walk. On Sunday we will be working on the photos from previous day. All this in the heart of the Lublin's Old Town, in the hospitable interiors of Twist Off Studio. The group will be small, only 6 people, so I can really focus on each person. And remember all the names ;)
I'm very happy to say, that the response was better then expected, and we have already almost full list for the next edition, which will take place in late October. I'm very excited and looking forward to this weekend - fingers crossed for no rain!
Here's a link to the Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/events/478529188833487/ (Polish only, sorry)
All this is possible with the help of friends from Twist Off Studio and Kaiser Soze Fundation - thanks!
Reflections on reflections, anamorphic distortion of the perception. Expanding perception over 180 degrees...
What had been a throw away shot, caught my eye today and I thought...What if?
So, I twisted it 90 degrees, and boosted the shadows and color. Now it makes me think about a different perspective.
Season of Touit - picture 17
Week 41, Wednesday
I’ve been using the Zeiss Touit 2.8/50M in different scenarios and while it is a lens with great versatility, it is also difficult to come up with right kind of pictures that demonstrates its marvelous macro capabilities and still be interesting enough from photography’s point of view. To demonstrate these macro capabilities I wanted to do at least one picture at minimum focusing distance just to have a concrete example how close one can get with 2.8/50M and what kind of magnification does it offer. So here is a regular housefly, the most common of all domestic flies at minimum focusing distance (and as filthy as they tend to be in the real world visible with human eyes). I had to approach this one very carefully not to scare it away and because of that I cannot say this picture is exactly at minimum focusing distance, but it’s there at least by 95 percent (the fly was about 8 mm long and I’ve cropped the picture just a little bit for better composition). I kind of like how this turned out even with as ordinary subject as this. With the original unresized file one can see individual photoreceptor units of the fly’s compound eyes and expect even greater details with newer sensors like the 24 mpix sensor inside the Sony Alpha 6000 (I’m working with older generation Sony Nex-5N which only has 16 mpix sensor). Not only does this picture exemplify the Touit 2.8/50M’s great 1:1 reproduction scale, it also shows how nicely the lens resolves even at aperture of f/14 where most other lenses would already had a diffraction kicked in. Also, notice the very smooth and buttery background bokeh which I absolutely love with this lens.
Looking at this picture as a simple photograph it brings up an interesting recollection from my childhood in me. Being a five or six years old I remember sitting in from of TV and watching a nature documentary about houseflies. The voice from documentary told that houseflies are very difficult to kill with a flyswatter because they see much larger field with their compound eyes and perceive time differently. Then the documentary showed a slow motion scene of typical apartment room where woman is trying to kill a fly with the flyswatter. Everything is slowed down to extreme and I remember seeing at least a flickering TV-screen and some people talking with their pitch lowered to unrecognizable sounds. Then the woman swings her hand with flyswatter and it takes from 10 to 20 seconds – of course she misses and the fly gets away. For some reason I remember that the claim about fly’s different perception of time had to do something about having so much more eyes than human. Despite of being all grown up today this sort of question of subjective perception of time has certainly fascinated me ever sense. Particularly one thing in this slow motion analogy intrigues me: it makes it look like the fly sees outside world in ‘slow motion’, but at the same time is able to think and reason within its inner cognitive world in ‘standard time’ – otherwise the explanation that the flyswatter misses because the fly has so much more time to see it and react to it, would be false. This sort of paradox of two different times filled up my mind as a child, but today I see it just a bad example of popularization of science. However, I’m still not sure how one should conceptualize it, but I’m pretty sure – if the phenomenon exist – it has nothing to do with eyes. Still, makes me wonder how this particular fly perceived me photographing it in that particular moment..
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Copycat of my friend . dep .
Because she inspires me always.
To be open.
To be true.
To be me.
To be imperfectly beautiful me.
xo