La beach chez mon'oncle

What I first see in this picture is all those little groups of people and how similar all of the people appear in their uniform-like bathing suits. I like the overall feeling of the picture, how the people appear so young and full of life in an era where life was so much more simple, the way the light shines down on them from everywhere at once brings an impression of a reassuring calming presence , the calm shallow water adding a feeling of security and good life, the big wide open sky full of promises.

The skies seem to be a bit over exposed, but I guess it was the only way to get a good exposure on the people and to be able to get good details on their clothes and faces. There is a good range of tones present in this print, the darks are really dark and there is a wide selection of mid tones all the way to the almost white of the sky. The point of focus is on the two girls but it also floats around nicely on the people sitting down and the couple getting out of the water. This picture was probably taken at a aperture of somewhere 5.6 or less since the focus does not travel far behind the subjects who are in focus.

I would hang this picture in my bedroom because looking at it does not get tiring at all. The peacefulness of the people's face is beautiful and this beach is made to turn into some kind of paradise.

This is a self portrait that I took with my pinhole camera. I am standing in a phone booth and my exposure is of about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Because of a slight attention deficit disorder, it is impossible for me to stand still for that long, therefore, during the exposure I moved quite a bit, lighting a cigarette and talking and laughing with Gab.

I made this camera with a really wide angle especially to enhance the look of portraits. The camera really blows for landscape type of pictures or anything with a far subjects, but for portraits and close-ups it works quite well. I used a piece of paper (negative) of 4 X 5 inches which also helps by creating a nice natural frame to the pictures.

I love how sharp the background is sharp in correlation with the subject (foreground), I was going for a ghostly image of myself, I think I got what I bargained for.

Matt perd la tete

Johnny's got a new gun

I was just offered a position as the assistant to John Londono..... It feels weird to have a friend for a boss, but I think I will learn a lot more than I expect. And all that thanks to facebook!!

The secret life of a pinhole

This is a simple schema of the pinhole camera that I crafted with my two left hands. I had a bit of a hard time to put it together due to faulty measurements but my cat gave me a helpful paw and we managed to get it together. Thank god for tape.

Cowboy tintype or when the modern day cowboys meet the 19th century photographer

This tintype picture is a group portrait of 5 cowboys, the real kind of cowboys. The men are lined up against a wall wearing the classic cowboy attire and they have quite the serious look on their faces. The way that these men are photographed really represents the image of what cowboys are. Hard working men with no frills, dressed in clothes that are durable and practical in the same style that cowboys have been wearing for hundreds of years, standing straight and solid and looking right ahead.

The picture was most likely taken on an overcast day. There is barely any shadow on the wall behind the cowboys or on their faces from the hats. I think that a flash was probably used or some kind of light that was aimed directly at the subjects, but most likely a flash. In this image we can see a range of tones but the contrast is pretty low. The dark areas, like the horse, are almost black but the shirts that are probably white in real life appear to be a creamy gray on the picture. There is very little details in the image, especially in the darker areas and that is most likely due to the technology used to make the image.

To me this image is really interesting. There is more than a portrait of 5 cowboys with a horse in the image. The fact that the technology used to make the image is almost as old as the cowboy occupation itself gives this picture a bigger, more meaningful impact. If it wasn't for the sunglasses that one men is wearing there would be very little clues that this picture was taken in the 21st century. By using the tintype technique , the photographers emphasize on the historical side of the cowboy occupation and how little things have changed since the 19th century.