Little story of male portraits
Category: Portrait
Runa in the snow
I look into my glass
I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, ‘Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!’
For then I, undistrest
By hearts grown cold to me,
Could lonely wait my endless rest
With equanimity.
But Time, to make me grieve,
Part steals, lets part abide;
And shakes this fragile frame at eve
With throbbings of noontide.
(Thomas Hardy)
#9 dream
These are the pictures that took my attention when I first went through the pictures I’ve made. I marked them, and edited them immediately after the shooting. Initially there where fifteen Photos, butbut this blog is only for nine pictures, so so Had to kick six of them.
Which one is your favourite, tell me at andreaspuhl@me.com
LINA
Burundi in meinem Herzen
Burundi ist nicht nur dies: Aber für mich ist es zuerst Musik, Trommeln, Schönheit.
Das ist die Seite von Burundi, die ich kenne. Nein, dort bin ich nie gewesen, aber in meinem Herzen lebt ein Stück dieses Landes. Das ist auch die Seite, die in meine Bilder gefunden hat. Das ist die Saite, die ich anschlagen will; es ist die, die Musik in mir erklingen lässt.
Vor meiner Kamera steht Burundi – in Gestalt der wundervollen Menschen Emely und Colyse. Lachen bringen sie mit, Farbe und Musik. Die zwei Wunderschönen stehen immer wieder vor meiner Linse, zeigen Lebensfreude und Potential.
Wenn du dich mit Menschen beschäftigst – und das ist in der Zusammenarbeit vor und hinter der Kamera grundlegend wichtig – lernst du sie lieben, achten und willst ihre Bilder zum Leben erwecken. So kommt es, dass ich es mir nicht nehmen lasse, den Klängen ihrer Landsleute zu lauschen: Wie Herzschläge das Trommeln, wie ein tiefes Durchatmen die wehenden Farben.
Die Models:
https://www.instagram.com/d.emelyne/
https://www.instagram.com/d1andra_/
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[Burundi … ist ein Binnenstaat in Ostafrika. Er grenzt im Norden an Ruanda, im Osten an Tansania und im Westen an die Demokratische Republik Kongo. Der größte Teil der Grenze zur Demokratischen Republik Kongo liegt im Tanganjikasee. – Wikipedia]
Blog post by Photographer Trostheide / 09.02.2021 14:48
Blog post by Photographer Thomas Berlin / 06.02.2021 09:35
Tom Sebastiano is a British photographer. With Thomas Berlin he talked about portraits, ordinary places and old cars as subjects. Also about his exclusive preference for analog photography as well as the composition of photos and much more.
Read the interview on https://thomasberlin.net/blog/2021/1/30/tom-sebastiano-interview
Die dunklen Tage
Black and White vs Color photography
I do love black&white photography and some people told me that I was used to do b&w with color photography. I didn’t understand at first and I don’t know if they are true. But that made me think about it.
It is true that the composition, the lines, in other words, the structure, is what strikes me most in a picture.
I went back to some of my images, and indeed I have often used false colors or striking ones like in this first picture of dance, with the contrasting red and blue. Obviously, contrast is a way to get highly structured pictures in b&w photography, like in the surfers’ one with that heavy black suit in the front and middle of the picture. But I achieved a detached effect of the young boy in color with depth of field and the contrast between the rough colors behind and the unity of his skin.
The "sang bleu" (blue blood) picture (which is a french joke about noble people’s blood, as I took this picture during a "give your blood" session) is probably mostly a b&w type photography. Well I do love the blue atmosphere and the blue square in the front, but it is not a colorful picture indeed, yet a highly structured one. Is it what they meant when telling me I did "b&w photography in color" ?
On the other hand, I really felt like having the "flowery dress" in b&w rather than in color because it seemed to me to be more striking with the reflection of the street and the black windows behind. And can’t you see the colors of the flowers ? I remember Ansel Adams saying he achieved a far greater sense of color in black and white ! Well, I’m not sure I agree, but I do not miss the colours of these flowers.
The "car park" is probably another "almost b&w" picture. But in this one I do like the yellow sun like halo of light and I would certainly not have changed it to black and white even though its structure would have fit well. The "sous-bois"’ is false colors. Perhaps it is not so important and could have it in b&w : the main topic is the flow of light in the opening in the distance, with the silhouettes of the trees. But I like the pale purple of the trunks in the front and the yellow-green of the grass and moss under the trees.
The last picture, the museum at sea front in San Sebastian, Spain, which I have named "passers by" is really a mere b&w picture for me. You can imagine the blue sky, ok, but I do not think it would get more interest. On the contrary colors would probably get this picture less striking with the contrasts between the building lines and the mustard sky and the people walking in the middle.
I let you appreciate these differences between b&w and color photography through these few examples and refer to your own practice. Let’s think (and talk) about it !
Philippe