Other/Artistic

There are many different ways for photographers to stimulate their creativity, try new techniques or to experiment. Changing a point of view on a subject is one of these ways. A point of view is influenced by the position, direction and height of the camera. Changing a point of view can be a very interesting and powerful technique in presenting your subject in a new and unique way as well as highlighting its features. You are able to change they way a subject is perceived by simply changing your camera's position.


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I met with Norbert Sokolowski (www.norbertsokolowski.com), a fellow photographer, in Brussels for a short walk to Fiesta Latina Festival in August 2010. The day started a bit rainy but soon sun came out and it really felt like Fiesta Latina Festival! :-)


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It's been a while I posted something on the blog since last time and I thought I would just give you a quick update what was and what will be going on in my photography life. Let's start with the past events then, shall we? :) I spent 2 weeks in Poland in August visiting my family and friends. Besides taking some snapshots at the countryside and while traveling a bit around, I also had a photo shoot at the Polish seaside. The pictures from this shoot are ready to be published but I think I'll put the online next week or so.


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It's official: I've switched over to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. I know that some of you followed previously my experience with testing Apple's Aperture 3 when it came out. Unfortunately, the processing speed of RAW files in Aperture 3 became simply unacceptable for me - waiting for 4 minutes for a program to process some adjustments within an image can be painful and a big time-waster as you can imagine.


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Many aspiring photographers try to find their ways not only on how to enter the photography market, but also on how to effectively and efficiently learn the art of photography. Some of these people find themselves in a rather deadlock - they have the basic knowledge but they can't progress anywhere from there. Such situations quite often occur when we start by reading lots of articles about photography and learning the theory but we forgot the most important thing about photography: it's about taking pictures!


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I went to the area near Brussels Airport with my friend Lourdes (her photo website) in May 2010 to hunt for interesting locations for the upcoming photo shoots and assignments. We found some really interesting spots for portraits and creative pictures in the area of Brussels Airport. I ended up taking few portrait test shots with Nikon SB-900 speedlight but I have to admit I was much more fascinated by the airplanes.


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Being a photographer is not only about knowing the rules of photography and applying them. It's also about being able to break them and to think outside the box. I think that the latter is particularly important for those who try or want to be creative - without the ability of thinking outside the box will make it very hard to stand out in the crowd!


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Just a quick announcement this time: next Brussels Photo Walk #3 will take place this Sunday (27 June 2010) at 14:00. We'll meet at the Brussels Central Station in front of the international ticket desk (left to the normal ticket desks).


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You might have already heard that I decided at the beginning of this year to organize Brussels Photo Walks. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to do them on a regularly but starting from May 2010, Brussels Photo Walks will be on regular basis: once a month! I already have few ideas to make these events even more exciting, interesting and even more social but these will be implemented gradually and kept as a surprise until revealed to the public :) . As some of you know might not be familiar with a concept of city photowalking , here is a short summary of Brussels Photo Walks.


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I was looking over some of my older photography gear few weeks ago and obviously I ran across my old film cameras and old memory cards from my first digital cameras. I started to recall the times of film photography and compare it with the experience of the digital world.


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I met a group of young photographers in Brussels (Belgium) few days ago. I overheard them discussing various aspects of photography so I joined them of course. At some point, they got to the point of talking about exposure as if they were talking about shutter speed (for example that the exposure was 1/60 sec.). To be honest, I was confused at first and I started to question my knowledge on the differences between exposure and shutter speed. Thankfully, it didn't take me long to do a quick and quiet analysis in my head and to assure myself that I was right in the first place:


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One of the most interesting (and probably unexpected features when Aperture 3 was first released) is the possibility to edit and compile movies from pictures, videos and sound files. I already heard from few people the following question: Ok, but iMovie does the same thing, so why do I need the same feature in Aperture 3? Some of you would react quite right saying that it's finally possible to manage both pictures and videos from one application (Aperture 3) and compile a nice movie within it. I agree, the video features and the possibility to create slideshows with audio and video from within...


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