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João Pedro Almeida (@joaoalmeida) | Ello
‘It was like being Alice-in-India’: artist Natasha Kumar on Bundi, Rajasthan
Street photography trinity
Kai, with or without DigitalRev, is in many ways the Top Gear of photography: people see it more because it’s entertaining than for having in-depth, factual and highly accurate reviews. But, like Top Gear, it’s contents aren’t entirely fiction and actually have some interesting facts underneath the fun and jokes.In this video Kai nicely goes through the street photography trinity lenses: 50mm, 35mm and 28mm (or in APS-C/crop focal lenghts: 35mm, 23mm and 18mm), and shows how this setup can capture both the details and the environment around us. This is my current setup, and one you probably have noticed that I’ve been thrilled about it since buying my Fuji XF23mmF2. And unlike his full-frame setup, because going mirrorless my combo can easily fit in my small hand! (via www.youtube.com/watch)
Testing my Ektachrome 100GX preset on some night shots taken at Intendente and Mouraria, in very low light and with a compact camera: expect very noisy shots!(more on my Flickr account www.flickr.com/photos/t3…)
A hot Sunday morning by the sea, nothing to do but take snaps. Then playing around with my Darktable presets, this is Fuji 160C! (more on: www.flickr.com/photos/t3…)
Observer by nature
Earlier this week I wrote something about how in my recent shots around Lisbon there were some with people actively interacting with their devices, but more than those devices the’re very engaged with the moment, being the selfie stick the most eye catching of the “tourist rituals”. Coincidence or not I had this photo from last year from Havana ready to publish on my Flickr account (https://www.flickr.com/photos/t3mujin/29069643805/), this made me think about how I perceive photography…I’m an observer by nature, someone who collects its surroundings rather actively interacting with it. That means that people photography for me is much more about capturing them, specially when engaged in their rituals, which can be as diverse as their faith, but also their craft or leisure. I don’t do portraits often and the reason is that I don’t like to direct people, I’m not creative person so my work is not will never be imaginative or visually compelling. In fact I don’t create anything, I just capture it.
League of the Last
If the previous month was all about Lisbon this has to be about football! The epic victory of the Portuguese National team reminded me I kind of have a football related project still ongoing: football pitches, not the green turf and covered seats stadiums, but the empty small fields where no plays at, some for quite a long time other only since the previous day. Throughout the years I paid attention to unlikely, empty football fields, never looked for but payed attention whenever those appeared in my path. Now is time to put it together.The name League of the Last? A blatant copy of an old TV show here in Portugal dedicated to lower league football.
Liga dos Últimos
Se o mês anterior foi de Lisboa este certamente é o mês do futebol! A vitória épica de selecção nacional fez-me lembrar que tenho um pseudo-projecto em andamento relacionado com futebol: campos de futebol, não os estádios de relva viçosa e modernas bancadas cobertas, mas sim aqueles campos vazios onde não joga ninguém, alguns há bastante tempo, outros provavelmente desde o dia anterior. Ao longo dos anos fui tendo uma especial atenção para campos de futebol vazios e improváveis, nunca os procurei mas sim ia estando atento a eles quando se cruzavam no meu caminho. Está na altura de juntar tudo isso. O nome Liga dos Últimos? Um roubo descarado do programa de televisão, com a diferença que nesse havia mais animação.
A month of Santos Populares is now over
As June ends it means the month of Santos Populares celebrations in Lisbon come to an end, when the city goes out to the streets and its most typical neighborhoods hold a celebration that lasts the entire month. Throughout the month I alternated between some of this year’s shots and looking for some older stuff from my archive, all that can be seen at a gallery in my Flickr account, the best place for my ongoing projects and unfiltered work.
Um mês de Santos Populares chegou ao fim
Ao terminar Junho o mês de Santos Populares em Lisboa chega ao fim, depois de um mês inteiro onde a cidade andou pela rua. Ao longo do mês fui alternando entre os disparos da animação deste anos e ir buscar coisas mais antigas ao arquivo, tudo isto pode ser visto num álbum na minha conta de Flickr, o melhor sítio para seguir o trabalho em curso e uma visão sem filtros das minhas fotos.