I finally managed to get my film developed. These were the first photos made with my new film camera, so they were mainly tests. But since I like how most of the photos came out I will try to make more of them on film from now on 
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For those of you who care, the camera is a Canon EOS 500.
The series is entitled home.
I know I haven’t posted anything for a while..but I didn’t have any interesting things to write about. Haven’t finished the book, haven’t seen any movies, haven’t looked for any good artists… But I have some new photos now, from the photo shoot for Baraka’s Butterfly
Hope you’ll like them.
Model, make-up and clothes: Irina Irimia (Baraka’s Butterfly)
Photographer: me
For those who are not familiar with the term, hdr means high dynamic range. For more information on hdr imaging click here.
A few photos from the photo shoot for Baraka’s Butterfly and a new theme.
I liked the theme i had before but it was too cluttered. I wanted something simpler and more spacious…
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Location : Acaju Cafe, Str. Sf. Sava nr. 15
Model: Daniela Maria Irimia
Clothes: Baraka’s Butterfly
Photographer: Me
This is the first photo from a series called Broken. The only processing I made was cropping and playing with contrast. I know the quality is not all that good, but I am just trying out stuff. Hopefully it will get better in time.
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I thought I would start a new series of posts about artists I like. I will try to choose one artist every week and write something about him/her and include a few works.
So, the series starts with Nan Goldin – since I already wrote about the two photographers i like most(Francesca Woodman and Diane Arbus).
Nan Goldin is an American fine-art and documentary photographer. She was born in Washington in 1953 and grew up in Boston, where she was first introduced to photography. Her photos are intense portraits of people from Goldin’s life – drag queens, drug addicts, lovers and family – and put together they could be seen as a journal made public to everyone who is willing to appreciate it. Goldin herself has commented on her photographic style and philosophy, saying, “My work originally came from the snapshot aesthetic . . . Snapshots are taken out of love and to remember people, places, and shared times. They’re about creating a history by recording a history.”
Her works are usually presented as slide shows which are added to a soundtrack of music, her most famous being a 45 minute show in which 800 pictures are displayed. Some critics have accused her of making heroin-use appear glamorous, and of pioneering a grunge style that later became popularized by youth fashion magazines such as The Face and I-D.
I really like her works, they are similar to snapshots but the colors, lighting and composition make them unique. Apparently, the photographs by Lucy Berliner, played by actress Ally Sheedy in the 1998 film High Art, were based on those by Goldin. I thought the style seemed familiar when watching the movie, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
Here are a few of her works:
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=88
Well, here are some photos from Camufi, the national books, music and film festival. It was nice, though they had a rather small selection of books and an even smaller selection of movies and music. They did have a presentation of the coffee roasting process, but except for the nice smell and interesting machine, it wasn’t all that exciting. I bought only 4 books:
Isabelle Robinet - Taoism: Growth of a Religion
Kaiten Nukariya - The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
Ian McEwan - The Comfort of Strangers
Italo Calvino - The Nonexistent Knight
I did buy a really nice pair of earrings on the way back though, from a sweet girl named Iuliana. You can find some really nice hand made accessories on her blog – Eoliana.
Enough talking, here are the photos.
Some condiments
Chest with children's books
Music
Coffee roasting thingy
Checking on the coffee
The result : Roasted coffee
I went out to take some photos today, but I wasn’t really in the mood for it so I didn’t have any good ideas. This is what came out…
Chess
Chess black&white
Duality
