More pictures by PJ Txema Amat

Some more pictures from his site...

Real life by Txema Amat

Spanish Photographer Txema Amat is a professional Photo Journalist working in Castellón. A sample of his works could be found at: http://imagelog.goto20.com/txema1976
It's a little bit slow but it's worth the waiting.
I have found some remarkable pictures on "the live in the streets".

A "strange" link?

As you can see in my links there is a new and "strange" link: DOMENECH ABOGADOS


It's so stange? No, because in every country you want to develop a photographic work you must be aware of the laws.


DOMENECH Spanish Lawyers are a team of professionals with more than ten years experience in various branches of law, specialising in international matters. They count on the collaboration of lawyers from other countries and have their own sworn translation and interpretation service.


As they are expert in BUSINESS LAW, they can support any project related with photography, publicity and audio-visual productions that your are willing to do in Spain.

nothing but light

nothing but light
Originally uploaded by noiselot.

Another exemple of how important your gear is to make good pictures.
Yes, in certain circunstances you must have the right tool and it could be the difference between having the picture or... not.
But for the amateur a simple cameraphone and a lot of "brain" could be enough...

Tone Hacker by Guillermo Luijk

In this thread of the Luminous-Landscape you can find Tone-Hacker. A small utility developed by the spanish photographer Guillermo Luijk.
Tone Hacker allows any user to easily "reverse engineer" B&W tonings from his favourite authors, and apply them straight into any B&W picture. It also calculates a standard Photoshop .acv curve file.
This utility can be downloaded for free from the author's website (follow Software - Tone Hacker):
http://perso.wanadoo.es/gluijk

Why Flickr?

I arrived to Flickr almost by chance. It was summer 2006 and a friend told me to take part in the Strobistbootcamp by David Hobby. For starters I found its Graphic User Interface very unfriendly. As I have used other photogalleries in the past (pbase, etc...), I decided to use it only for that experience and forget it.

The Strobistbootcamp was a very challenging experience. Since then I'm addicted to DH blog, I check it daily to find advice and inspiration... But my relationship with Flickr did not followed the same way!

Later I have readen this interesting "essay" by Petteri Sulonen: Why Flickr Is Better (For You)
I have readen most of Petteri's "pontifications" and I agree with a lot of them... But his oppinions on that point did not convice me... At this time.

But one day I became bored with the "social dynamics" that grew in the photography forums and photogalleries and I decided to give Flickr a second chance.
And I became addicted.

As Petteri says in his essay Flickr "adds up to a social dynamic that encourages creativity and individuality rather than conformity and uniformity."

If you haven't tried it yet... Give it a chance, it's free ;-)

Pablo Lorente (Spain)

Photo by www.pablolorente.com (Palermo77 - www.caborian.com)
Originally uploaded by Kendall2006.

A interesting young photographer. He has not a flickr gallery, but you can find this pictures doing a search...
A more complete sample of his works can be found at his website www.pablolorente.com

"Sácame guapo, ehh?"

"Sácame guapo, ehh?"
Originally uploaded by alfonstr.

Another DSS example from another Flickr photographer...
A photography inside another photography, like rusian "matrushkas"...

What is DSS?

DSS is an acronym I heard in photographic forums. It stands for Digital Street Shooter, applied to digital cameras to take "urban pictures". But for me, it must be used more widely to design all: the gear, the pictures and the most important part... The photographers! In this blog you will see works of other photographers that I found remarkable...Don't miss the oportunity of be a DSS!!!

BENILIAM on FLICKR

If you don't know his work yet I reccomend you a visit to his pictures on Flickr.

Beniliam is a young spanish photographer. He started with a digital SLR and then switched to compact 35mm film cameras.

I suppose that he will, in the future, switch back to "direct digital" capture with a sort of compact camera like the SIGMA DP-1...

Of course the copyright of this picture belongs to him :)

Here we go...

Let's start a new blog about photography.

A new acronim, DSS, pulled me to start this blog. I know some good contempory "street photographers" and only time will tell if they will be as famous as HCB :-)