We watched the movie Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock a few weeks ago. It takes place in San Francisco in 1957 (the worldwide premiere was in May 1958). Vertigo is noted for its groundbreaking camera techniques to simulate the sensation of vertigo. source: britannica.com I really liked the images and since I like street photography, some of them…
This week we have for you 2 movie recommendations that you can watch for free on Youtube. Both movies are produced by Kaufman brothers, born in Soviet Białystok (now Poland) into a family of Jewish intellectuals. Man with a movie camera A movie directed by Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman) is an experimental soviet…
I ordered a small Unetice beer to accompany my lunch. The sun was shining through the windows creating nice shades on the massive wooden tables. The draught beer in a glass also created interesting adamantine effects. Having an upcoming photo exhibition in mind (which I will tell you more about in a second), I took…
Collotype is a photographic printing process invented in France in 1855 by Alphonse Poitevin. It gives accurate reproduction because no halftone screen is employed to break the images into dots. It looks like this old process is nowadays commercially used only in Japan. There are 2 studios left in Kyoto that use collotype printing to…
We are going to edit a photo from the ‘Botanical theatre’ series we took and posted on Instagram. I recently switched from Adobe to Serif company and their Affinity products. I found myself rarely using Photoshop and even Lightroom, so their subscription mode didn’t make sense anymore. This walk-through is created in Affinity photo for…
Juli found another series of photos from her old film camera taken in Bratislava. When I saw the image below I remembered a picture from Canadian photographer Fred Herzog. It has the same feeling, amazing light and colours. Moreover the posture of the boy and the man is very similar. They are both lost in…
A radical photographer in the times of the DDR regime We went to take a look at her photo exhibition at the French institute in Prague. Below is the basic info and a few photos we took at the gallery. Sibylle Bergemann was one of the well-known German photographers of the past decades. You can…
Photography exhibition: “Looking to See: Six Photographers” Place: Art&Food ZOOna, Trója. Free entry. Sale of selected pieces. Exhibiting photographers:Andrés Aranda (MX), Andrew Goodall (GB), Craig McNulty (GB), David Wiinikka-Lydon (US), Ju Li (IT), and Miroslav Slapka (SK) are film, digital and cameraless photographers living in or near Prague. Exhibition is open alongside the street food…
Just like we are drawn to look up towards the building or the clouds, as we walk, I believe that recognisable objects can guide us from below our feet, from the cracked pavement.
I’ve attended street photography workshop with David Gaberle in Prague recently. It took 5 days and I learnt a lot of new things that I’d like to share. I take photos only with mobile phone but it doesn’t matter as the workshop was focused more on developing a visual language, seeing, selecting and editing photos.…