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April 12, 2021

How life changed since I took the first photographs, in  “analog”, but equipped with a machine that, at that time, was a great brand.  Leica

 Life has changed. Different priorities and, for a long time, I did not return to photography.

As I believe that nothing happens by chance, twenty years later, I droped in the middle of digital photography.

I had to relearn a lot, read a lot, take some courses (for this purpose I strongly recommend the course, in my case, online given the location of the photographic school, the New York Institute of Photography,

 and in particular the Professional Photography Course) that I complemented with a course and enrolment at the Professional Photographers of America -PPA, an entity of worldwide repercussion.

Enriched with these basic notions, it was a matter of months before the bug came back and, nowadays, I wake up and fall asleep thinking about photography.

My first machine was a Canon 5D Mark III, which is still one of my favourites even with its 300,000 shots.
I also use an APS, the Canon 90D, this one is more recent.
In the world of photography, in terms of equipment, I think the most important are the lenses and, for that, I acquired the classic Canon 24-105mm of the L series (the famous red line) as the first and most versatile.
It made and still makes great photos, in many different situations.
Also, I needed to have the most basic lens they are able to teach us the first steps. The Canon 50mm.
For Portrait and macro I use what is considered the sharpest lenses on the market, the Canon Macro 100mm L. line .
As I was, for many years, a hunter, is not surprising that I also dedicate myself to wildlife photography. That's why I use the Tamron Telephoto Lens 100-400mm, light and very precise.
To complete this modest range and as I mainly do Landscape Photography, my “companions” for this purpose are: the previously referred Tamron 100-400mm and the Sigma 20mm - 1.4 series Art.

 Much more I have to say about all these “companions” but it is for the next post.

 

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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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