tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74001542012-01-12T03:09:53.971-08:00Photography as a hard drugEnric Martineznoreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400154.post-7919118538023841332008-05-07T13:08:00.000-07:002008-05-07T13:26:13.420-07:00

I recently finnished a series of 3 articles in my new blog About Photography. The fact is that I wanted to try this iWeb thingy... it's quite nice, so I will surely use it to publish some more stuff. Anyway, Blogger is much more convenient and creates lighter and faster loading blogs.However, the important thing is the series itself. I began to write it in order to "fix" my impressions about

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Mamiya C220 1, maart 16, 2008 Originally uploaded by Enric MartinezMy new "Godzilla", the Mamiya C220.I wanted to have another quality MF camera as a complement to the Kiev 88. This one, the C220 seemed quite appealing as it is relatively inexpensive (about 100€) and also relatively modern. It's fully mechanical (another plus) and unlike the Kiev-88 built to western standards of quality.

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Originally uploaded by Enric Martinez This is another preset, I called this Silver 02. The effect tries to suggest (more than imitate) antique silver oxide tinted prints ("sepia"), but I'm not trying to make them pass for old photos. The omnipresent iso-noise gives it a dream-likes (or sometimes nightmare-like) atmosphere and the land and cityscapes are all obviously modern. I am a very "

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Spoorweg set 03 - misc 2 maart 06, 2008 Originally uploaded by Enric Martinez I have been playing around a bit, testing how the noise reduction and sharpening functions in Lightroom 1.3. I specially wanted to know how the exported results look like.On this I wanted to achieve a watercolor-like finish. What seems to have worked quite well.I could have used PS Elements for something

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Viewfinder prism Finally I have had time to work on the Moskva-5. I was trying to figure out how the camera works, as I was unable to release the shutter, thus I thought that I was missing some point and was even going to write emails to all the Moskva-5 sites in my bookmarks.But during the thorough cleaning of the camera (which included cleaning the bellows with the vacuum cleaner) I found

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Kiev-88 -1 Originally uploaded by runlevel0 As I already commented, I am planning to jump to medium format. I have already the soviet cameras I bought: A Moskva-5 bellow camera for 6x9 format, a Lomo and the Kiev-88 a kind of Soviet copy of the Hasselblads.I have read that the builds of this camera are not reliable and that the sometimes leaks light. I have anyway bought a seal repair

Enric Martineznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400154.post-2604794741121853522007-06-28T00:30:00.001-07:002007-06-28T00:30:58.915-07:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Enric Martineznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400154.post-17938805051915959322007-06-11T13:12:00.000-07:002007-06-11T15:29:19.898-07:00

I have definitely to decide for a style.U have already been touching most of the fields of photography, except portrait, which is something I still have to learn but for what I lack subjects.I have a good hand with nature photography and I manage to get more or less appealing results with macro... But although nice, they seem to me to be all too mainstream, not in the sense that I don't like them

Enric Martineznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400154.post-50618117300823024972007-04-12T04:33:00.000-07:002007-04-12T05:04:34.760-07:00

It's 13:35, 1h to the end of my working day, temperature is 16C (or so) and I'm looking forward for a special day shooting in A'DamFirst of all: I have gotten myself a version of Lightroom 1.0 at Amazon.com, until the package arrives I will be using the 30 day trial version for Mac. I already explained why I decided to use this particular program instead of UFraw or it's closed source Apple

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I learned, that there are Flickr clubs all around the world. Would be fine to have an expat-flickr club here in the Netherlands. OK, I will improve my Dutch and find a local one, but would be nice in the meantime.There are only 1 1/2 hours for the end of the day at work (damn shifts). A beautiful sunny day in Amsterdam. I have packed my Pentax and my Minolta and are looking forward for a

Enric Martineznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400154.post-53963325097876272402007-03-30T12:31:00.001-07:002007-03-30T12:31:21.814-07:00

I finally decided to revamp my old blog, erase it´s (little) content and use ti for something real useful: Instead of ranting about something I will use it as a way to fix my ideas and rething the stuf I a am currently engaged in. And that´s photography. Both, digital and film. Thus I will begin with a list of my gear: Digital: Pentax *ist DL2 (with only a 18-55mm Pentax DA zoom) Kodak

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