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PHOTOGRAPHY AS A DOCUMENT
FRIGHTENING PHOTOS
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blog note While we’re taking fantastic landscape photographs that are beautiful, although sometimes repetitive, documenting the places we live, trying to mix document with art is, for many, a forgotten art form. A tour I organized, recently, on a stretch of the Atlantic Coast, tried to alert participants to the importance of capturing a glimpse of activities and signs of a changing landscape. The results are, from my point of view, quite interesting and should seduce others to try this. This collection of virtual pages also has space for some other experiments with Light, Photography and Culture, a triumvirat I think works perfectly to give people an education while entertaining themselves. As always, the portfolios published are a direct result of some of the activities I organize. Jose Antunes
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PHOTOGRAPHING
FLOWERS From May onwards, until there are no
These workshops will teach you how to
more flowers left in the fields, I will run
get the best results without the need
a series of workshops on photographing
to learn complex rules or settings. A
flowers. Not with a macro, but with any
simple understanding of how your lens
other lens you may have. Like a zoom.
works and the potential of selective
flower photography workshops
focus, along with notions of composition, use of light, colour and, above all, the
The images on the poster published on
understanding that what your eyes SEE
the right page were all taken with a long
is different from what your camera
lens, in fact one that I’ve mentionned
captures, is all you need to reach a new
lately in multiple articles: my new EF
level in your flower photography.
100-400mm lens. Although that specific lens offers some unique perspectives
Knowing your camera well is a must
due to its close focusing distance, I’ve
to participate in one of these sessions.
been taking photographs of flowers for
You need to know how to adjust the
decades with other lenses, with different
essential controls, even if you do not
focal lengths. Rarely with a macro lens,
completely understand they work. That
although people tend to think MACRO,
I will explain you during the activity, so
every time I show my photographs.
you’ll get the best of the experience.
I’ve a special interest into the use
I’ve scheduled the dates of 16, 23 and
normal lenses for flower photography:
30th of May (Saturdays) – and then
they are the ones most people have, and
the Saturdays 13, 20 and 27 in June
there’s no reason for them to not use
-, to run these workshops, under the
them fully to get more than snapshots
condition that I’ve at least a group of 4
of flowers. So, this series of workshops
persons for each session. The price per
intends to help people to get their best
person is € 75 and includes my eBook
flower photos and some understanding
mentionned above. The activity can also
of what they can achieve, even with a
be organized any day of the week, under
normal 18-55mm humble kit lens. Yes,
request, as long as there are at least 4
even with those. In fact, even with a
participants. It is also possible to run it
Smartphone you can get good pictures
on a One2One session (please contact
of flowers, if you know why. I’ve pages
for info about price).
dedicated to that on my eBook The Best Secrets of Flower Photography.
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ONE LIGHT OVER
HISTORY
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hotographing museum artifacts is already a challenge, but photograph them inside the cabinets
is an extra challenge, due to the reflection on glass.
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This activity helps people to achieve results, using just one single light source. It’s a whole day experience, divided in two parts. First participants learn the basics and how to work with the ambient light at a museum exhibit. The second part of the activity is done with the use of LED panels, with one light per participant. Photographers learn how to use one light and then are left to explore on their own what can and can not be done. The portfolio published here is the result of such an experience. Although not all the participants made all the way from taking the pictures to editing them and creating the final selection, the images published show the variety of approaches, based on the techniques learned. Each of the participants was asked to photograph different artifacts first and afterwards choose one and explore it in detail. Then at the editing process, choose from the images created a selection that would reflect their own experience. I think we all will learn from looking at the photographs. This experience derived from my own work photographing the exhibit DIIS MANIBVS at the Archeological Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas. I felt it would be interesting to share the techniques apllied there, to create some of the materials that have been used to promote the exhibit. This activity can be done any time of the year, if there is people interested, for groups that can not exceed five persons. Do get in touch with me if you want to explore this side of photography and the use ol LED panels for photographing museum artifacts.
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ONE LIGHT OVER
HISTORY João Dionísio
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ONE LIGHT OVER
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João Dionísio
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ONE LIGHT OVER
HISTORY Maria Emília Pires
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ONE LIGHT OVER
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Maria Emília Pires
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ONE LIGHT OVER
HISTORY Paula Correia
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Paula Correia
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ONE LIGHT OVER
HISTORY These are examples of some of the material
I produced for promotion of the exhibit DIIS MANIBVS - Death Rituals in the Roman Empire, which runs until the end of June 2015. All photographs were created with the artifacts inside the cabinets, with some minimal editing (more in the case of the fire image) in Photoshop. The activity shown on the previous pages was created using these and other examples as base. I can run a similar activity for people interested. Jose Antunes
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Romans and the Atlantic Realm - Landscape photography on the coast of the
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Temple of the Sun, Moon and the Ocean
A photo tour for you, when you want it.
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FRIDAY
A little fun on a Friday 13th a São Miguel de Odrinhas. I cre panels at the library area of t participants in my activities t Friday 13th show held, as obv
This had to be done hastily, a play started, so the images ar interesting experience and ev for some, a first time doing so people working at the Museu they’ve been doing this kind these frightnening photos! 34 • photoD
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at the Archaeological Museum of erated two small studios using LED the Museum, and invited regular to photograph the actors before the vious, each Friday 13th of the year.
as it was done minutes before the re somehow similar. But it was an verybody had a lot of fun, as it was, omething like this. The actors are um, so they’re real amateurs although of presentations for years now. Enjoy photoD • 35
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FRIDAY 13TH Maria Emília Pires
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FRIDAY 13TH Marion McCristall
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FRIDAY 13TH Susana Leite
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The event resumes on the 13th of
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f November 2015, a Friday. . .
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Revisit the Past in Broas - Photographing a ghost town as a means to better
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A photo tour for you, when you want it.
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS A
DOCUMENT While we’re taking fantastic landscape images that are beautiful - although sometimes repetitive -, documenting the places we live, trying to mix document with art is, for many, a lost art form. A tour I organized on a stretch of the Atlantic Coast recently, tried to alert participants to the importance of capturing a glimpse of activities and signs of a changing landscape. The results are, from my point of view, quite interesting and should seduce others to try this.
photo: Paula Correia
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS A
DOCUMENT
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Maria Emília Pires
The discussion about the importance of photography as a document has been on for a long time, and there are different opinions about its value. Still, there is no doubt that without many of the photographs from the past it would be difficult for many of us to visualize it… from the big changes in our town to the faces of our grand-parents. So, photography is a document, even if sometimes it takes the shape of an artistic form. It does not matter how much one praises the artistic value of Ansel Adams photos, they’re also documents that show us something we’ve completely lost. In fact, already in 1922, in a letter to his future wife, Virginia, Adams complains about the crowds in the Yosemite valley and says: “How I wish that the Valley could be now like it was forty years ago -- a pure wilderness, with only a wagon road through it, and no automobiles nor mobs.” So, already in his time Adams felt that dramatic changes had occurred in the places he loved. Changes happen around us every day, and while doing beautiful artistic photographs is a goal we all want to meet, there should also be a time when we document the world around us. Sometimes it is even possible to do both things simultaneously. The collection of images shown here is a step in that direction. Each participant was asked to tell in 20 photos what had been their day on a stretch of coast that offers more than at first glance meets the eye. From the drastic changes on a popular beach area to the remains of Roman and Muslim civilizations at an archeological site, through the simple sign of change that graffiti covered by sand tell us, this is a lesson on photography as a document. And visual storytelling, something that we all should try to do with our photos, once in a while. photoD • 69
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS A
DOCUMENT Maria Emília Pires
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Paula Correia
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS A
DOCUMENT Paula Correia
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS A
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS A
DOCUMENT Paula Correia
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Susana Leite
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