Photog stuff
There are some news related with my presets for Darktable (or styles, I never know what to call those…).
TLDR: it’s a new site and I moved things around in Github, but please take a look nevertheless, and share your feedback you want to!
I was fortunate to follow Maria’s project from afar, in exhibits or talks, and every time I felt touched by it. Seeing it awarded in World Press Photo truly makes me happy. Congratulations!
People walking around in airport lounges with neck pillows is a bit silly, but ok, I do get it. People walking around with those downtown is just stupid. Even if you came from the airport.
When you have to stop to enjoy the view. Flashbacks from Huemul and the Southern Patagonian ice field.
Fact: I really want a Fuji GFX100RF! Still… That aspect ratio dial feels like a gimmick.
Josef Koudelka, in the presentation of the GFX100RF, sharing some bits of wisdom between all the marketing stuff: the secret to good photography is good shoes!
Wow, the new Fuji GFX100RF is really small!
Hoje o carteiro não trouxe só continhas para pagar! A KioskZine com o “Heaven” do António Pedrosa.
Suddenly everyone decided to start selling lenses from disposable cameras packaged for mirorless cameras?
Há exatamente cinco anos o Miguel A. Lopes lançava o desafio num grupo de WhatsApp, com dezenas e dezenas de fotógrafos, e esta foto do Gonçalo Borges Dias abria o EverydayCovid. Passado uns dias começavam as sessões de Zoom diárias para ir escolhendo o material que chegava (juntamente com o Ângelo Lucas, André Dias Nobre, Gonçalo Delgado, Rui Miguel Pedrosa e Rui Soares), depois o livro, as exposições e por aí fora. Muita coisa feita por imensa gente talentosa. Parece que foi ontem, mas ao mesmo tempo noutra vida.
A Madalena Boto mais uma vez a fazer a fazer magia, agora a documentar vida selvagem em plena Lisboa.
…passa na RTP em breve!
Elevator selfie, just because…
Regarding Foto, and other social networks.
Foto is cool and clean, all that we wanted Instagram to be, but the issue is, in many ways, is just like all the others: it’s privately owned, centralized, closed, probably will be monetized at some point, and, as much as its founders are well intended, its roadmap will be decided by a handful of people. At some point, by the shareholders. Musk is right at one thing: these services are becoming the global, digital public square. And that’s why they need to evolve into something that’s open, decentralized and based on standards. And Foto doesn’t seem to be any of that.
Funny how photos allow you consolidate your memories. Not just the actual thing you photographed, that’s a no brainer, but everything around it: what you were doing, what you were eating, what you were listening, who you were with. As if the act of clicking also snapshots the brain.
All wrapped up for today… Work, football, even politics. Time to go back to the photos.
The photographer that took the photo that might have won the election for Trump, or at least helped a lot, is no longer able to cover Trump. Let that sink in…
What a good flashback of Nepal from my mate João Lage! I clearly remember some of these coffee breaks.
That good feeling of planning a new trip, but still far away that you don’t get anxious with last minute details.
Apesar de estar a falar em causa própria, não tivesse ela uma cadeia de lojas na Baixa, acerta na mouche aqui: são tantas as lojas, cafés, restaurantes ou bares que dão lugar a uma janela com um sofá vazio, e que deixam a rua com menos vida.
Este ano estava a pensar se iria ou não fotografar no Entrudo, mas o João Maia (cúmplice destas coisas) lançou o isco e eu acabei por morder. Como sempre, valeu a pena a viagem . Regressar a festas que já se conhecia, conhecer novas, reencontrar amigos e terminar num lugar onde já meio que me sinto em casa: Vila Boa!
