Tag Archives: 2016

Liverpool 2016 Remux

A few months ago, I recovered files lost during a hard drive crash. Among all the photos lost at the time, almost 6 months of photos including those of my stay in Liverpool. At the time I was just starting Street Photography and still used the Fuji XE2 on the streets. My style was quite different today. What has changed a lot over the past 4 years is my way of post-processing the photos. Whether in color or in Black & White, I use much less aggressive processing and above all, I no longer crop my photos.
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Street Photography Tips : Triangles

Lauren Welles : A “Metzkeresque” photo (look up Ray Metzker, if unfamiliar with his work). Perfect lines, shadows, light and triangles – Fundamental elements of good composition. While I often see work like this in Street Photography, I think that verticals are much harder to get right and this one does it perfectly, making use of evey inch of the frame. Continue reading Street Photography Tips : Triangles

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2016 re-processing

I told you that I had started working on a book that would bring together photos of my 3 years spent in the streets of Aix-en-Provence. I have already made a selection of about 130 photos. I had paused this project because I was not satisfied with the processing of some old photos. The problem is that I no longer had control over these photos because I had lost the RAW files during a hard drive crash. Finally, I accidentally dropped the HDD on the ground and since then it no longer worked. I still waited 4 years before looking into the issue. So I sent the faulty HDD for a clean room data recovery. It cost me the tidy sum of € 800 … Continue reading 2016 re-processing

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Revisiting 2016 & 2017

That’s it, it’s been more than 15 days that we are confined to our home. Not being essential to work (I am still in training), I was asked to stay at home until further notice. The children do not have school either and we are supposed to teach them every day. After just 1 week, I came to the conclusion that this virus was not very bad and that the children should go back to school … More seriously, I find that the children live confinement rather well. My parents’ house is very large and they also have at their disposal the garden with a concrete section which allows them to ride a scooter. We make them work in the morning and part of the afternoon, but it has a little holiday taste for them. Not really for us …
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Aix-en-Provence on my mind

I arrived in Aix-en-Provence at the end of 1997, a few months before this month of July 1998 blessed by all French Footix. That year, the French Football team became for the first time World Champion of Football. Footix was the mascot of this World Cup. I do not know why during these planetary events, there are always these ridiculous mascots. Here Footix was a pretty ridiculous cock whose name was a distant reminder to the irreducible Gallic of Uderzo. You know Asterix, Obelix, Idefix, Panoramix … Since I think that the term Footix has become pejorative when you speak of someone who loves football. I so have spent more than 20 years in Aix-en-Provence before moving to this lost island in Indian Ocean. How long do we live ? 80 years ? A bit more for some. I spent 1/4th of my life in Provence. I met my wife, I became a dad and I also discovered the Street Photography late at the age of 40. When I see some young people starting street photography, I’m a little envious because I thought that if I had been interested in Street Photography in the 80s, I could have documented this period and all those who follow-up … Regrets ? A little yes. Continue reading Aix-en-Provence on my mind

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Looking back : Shooting the beach with the Fuji XE2.

 

 

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J’ai publié ces derniers temps, pas mal d’articles polémiques qui ont fait réagir beaucoup de gens. C’est en tout cas le sentiment que j’ai eu car j’en ai beaucoup parlé avec des photographes de la communauté. Je suis conscient de passer pour le gars haineux qui dézingue à tout va et qui ne fait que critiquer. Je vais être clair là dessus. Ce que j’ai exprimé dans ces Blogs, je le pense réellement. Je ne les ai pas écrit de manière opportuniste comme certains le pensent pour faire parler de moi. Ça fait presque 3 ans que j’ai découvert la Street Photography et aussi tout ce qui gravite autour. La Street Photography c’est ce qui me plaît. Tout le reste (Réseaux sociaux, recherche de reconnaissance , copinage …) n’offre que de la confusion et de la distraction. Beaucoup se focalisent sur “le reste”, moi c’est la rue avant tout. Je n’arrive pas à fermer ma gueule quand je vois certains comportements sur les réseaux sociaux, mais il est inutile aussi de passer pour l’énervé de service …

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Silhouettes.

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Voilà 10 mois que je fais de la Street Photography. Après mon travail sur les ombres et la lumière, j’ai découvert en regardant les photos des autres, l’importance des silhouettes. Continue reading Silhouettes.

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Ombres & Lumière

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Quand j’ai commencé la “Street Photography”, comme je suis d’une nature assez timide, la façon la plus simple de prendre des photos de rue était de trouver un endroit intéressant avec  une bonne lumière et attendre que les personnes entrent dans le cadre pour prendre la photo. Continue reading Ombres & Lumière

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