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1. When and how did you start to become interested in photography?
First of all, I would like to thank the PWS Team for this event and their support for photographers here on Tumblr!
The first point is a small black and white laboratory in the garage of my father in which I spent many days (and nights!) in the red light, learning and practicing film and paper processing, years of Patterson cuvés, Ilford papers and Durst.
The second point is a very beautiful full-length black and white portrait of an American singer found in an old magazine of bands with a great range of gray, highlighting the many details, from skin to the eyes to the clothes to the hair. This photo has remained in my memory as the translation of colors into black and white, sublimating the portrait.
2. How would you say your photography changed since you started?
I began photography with a SLR camera and black and white films. At that time the films were expensive so I did not take many pictures and learned to take my time before releasing the shutter (this way of taking pictures has stayed with me). I discovered the complexity of the sensitivity, speed and aperture settings. Now with the DSLR models, there are a lot of possibilites and many automatic settings, but I always come back to the manual mode with no auto focus. Otherwise, the change comes by itself when you look at a lot of photographs, inevitably, you become much more critical of your own pictures.It happens by itself.
3. Is there something you learned during your photographic journey that you would have loved to know when you were just starting out?
Don’t focus too much on the technical settings and leave a lot of space around the subjects.
4. Your blog consists to a large degree of macro photographs. What is it that draws you towards macro photography?
So many magnificent colors and patterns. It’s fascinating what you discover when you get very close to the pistil of a flower, to a tiny insect that turns its little head towards you, I still haven’t got tired of it! It’s like entering another world on another scale, full of symmetry and extraordinary shades.The beauty of a snowflake!
So many photographers, black and white street photography by Vivian Maier, and contemporary photographers like Mitchell Kanashkevich, and Anne McKinnell, and many photographers here on Tumblr.
…And the light! How a ray of sunlight enters a room, the shadows it casts on the walls, the curtains or in a forest, illuminating the leaves like a golden curtain.
6. If you’d have to describe yourself as a photographer in one sentence, what would that sentence be?
Like thousands of other photographers to show the beauty and diversity of the Nature that surrounds us in order to stop this useless destruction and the endangerment of our biodiversity.
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