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Experience

June 6, 2021

Some.weeks ago I was invited to join a group of professional photographers with the aim of giving rise to a product that will be exhibited soon.

At first I felt that fear of the unknown, because as a photographer mainly landscape I tend to work alone.

In addition, the type of photography was street photography, which is also not my area.

As a new and enticing experience I accepted and on the first day of the appointed hour i was ready for what awaiting me.

The pros were appearing, I was introducing myself and for my first surprise I am immediately integrated and very well received in the group.

No raised noses, no overhangs, on the contrary a simplicity in the deal that made me very comfortable.

We went to the first goal of work and it was a huge pleasure.

From that moment until today a group of professional photographers has been formed who having in common the same passion have managed to maintain a group spirit that can take us away through the between help, very difficult thing to get even more when we talk about seven people, in a branch of activity that by tradition or not, is sometimes hostile to the partner of profession.

For professional and contract reasons, I can not at this moment talk about the project what I will do as soon as possible but for now it is how gratifying they have been for me these last three weeks and the appearance of seven new friends in my life.

thanks!

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Sunrise vs Sunset

It was during my second experience as a photographer, that this question came up.

Yes, I was an amateur photographer, like many, still in the time of analog photography.

I used to spend boxes and boxes of Kodak film that I put on the reels of my old Leica by myself.

I often oxidized the sink drain in my mother's house where, in the late hours of the night, I poured the fixer in the urge to go and see what came out of my work of the day.

Since I had no darkroom, so I used the night darkness for that purpose.

Then other priorities appeared in my life and I gradually left photography, an art that would come back to 4 years ago, now in the digital age.

I have always loved portraiture, but as a result of another Hobby ,I had, hunting, I came to admire the dawn before and during sunrise. Yes, because hunting is far beyond the simple act of killing an animal. It's much more than that.

But returning to the theme, in addition to the portrait, I dedicated myself, as a result of what I wrote before, to landscape photography and within this long exposure photography. I started touring the Portuguese coast with its spectacular cliffs and taking my photos.

For me, Sunrise contains more motive and more sensations than what Sunset expresses. This from a purely personal point of view.

I like the dawn of a new day much more than the disappearance of it. The nautical dawn and the civil dawn periods that precede Sunrise have very good elements to add to a good composition. If the sky shows some clouds, the projections of the first rays of the sun provoke the appearance of several pictures that change very quickly in fantastic tones. On the opposite, Sunset also with enormous possibilities has the problem for me, in my head, that we are walking into an increasingly tight funnel until night falls. On the opposite, it is a new day that lies ahead. This I know is very subjective but it expresses my feeling as a person and photographer.

 * In the next topic I will explain how I take my long exposure photos and what I learn from practice.

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