Saturday 27 March 2010

Ausstellung

Ya tengo casi todas las fotos seleccionadas para la exposición. He hecho un par de impresiones de prueba, ajustado mi monitor y, en principio, la semana que viene las mandaré a imprimir.


Mayormente que los gustos no son todos unos, mas lo que uno no come, otro se pierde por ello. Y así vemos cosas tenidas en poco de algunos, que de otros no lo son. Y esto para que ninguna cosa se debría romper, ni echar a mal, si muy detestable no fuese, sino que a todos se comunicase, mayormente siendo sin perjuicio y pudiendo sacar della algún fruto.

Porque, si así no fuese, muy pocos fotografiarían para uno solo, pues no se hace sin trabajo, y quieren, ya que lo pasan, ser recompensados, no con dineros, mas con que vean y lean sus obras, y, si hay de qué, se las alaben. Y a ese propósito dice Tulio: "La honra cría las artes".

Del Prólogo del Lazarillo de Tormes




The preparation for the exhibition is progressing well. I am almost finished selecting photos and I have even sent some to be printed to check the result. I had to adjust my screen as photos were too dark but next week everything should be ready. Good learning experience.


(I canot translate the text above, since my XVI century English is not that great and don´t quite trust Google for this)

Sunday 21 March 2010

The importance of having a tripod


From time to time it happens that you want to take a photo and you don´t know how to do it. This is frustrating enough. But knowing how to take a simple one and not being able to do it because of a technicality, such as the balcony railing in the way...

Long story short, went on holidays and took a mini tripod with me, which happened to be not big enough for the job. I cannot complain as I just paid ten euros for that tripod and it was actually intended to be used more for the flash than the camera itself. But being so close and not quite there!

On a different night I could not resist to give it another try. After deleting my fair share of hand-held long exposure photos I decided to move a table and get the tripod on top of it, which was still shaky but kind of worked in the end to get over the balcony railings.