3 Years NoArt Blog
Who would’ve thought…? That’s how these articles always start, don’t they? Who would have thought that this blog would live on three years after its initial posting? I guess, I did. Back in July of 2007 it was my intention to blog about my continuous photographic efforts, and I surely did not intend to give up my hobby within three years. So if all goes well, the blog will still be here for at least another 30 years…
But back to the present. At the moment I’m photographing with a lot of joy and inspiration, and my current photographic interest, off-camera flash, is rewarding me with great images.
There were times however, when I didn’t take a photograph for weeks and weeks, but that’s probably everyone’s story. We all go through our ups and downs and sometimes we produce great images day after day and other times it seems pointless to even think about taking the camera out of the closet.
Anyhow, happy third birthday to my blog and best wishes to you, my readers!
Bojidar, could we ask you for rare updating the K-Mount page? Please, don’t abandon this project! Though today Pentax looks queerly, it is difficult to predict the future. The wait feels coming to new model lineup. But most interesting and valuable Pentax film era has terminated, of course. Hm, do you really believe in daring 30-years plan? I’m not sure if blog fashion will live so long. I think it will return to traditional author’s web-pages – more versatile self-publishing tool. But my principal message for you is what attitude to photography should you follow, if not youth hobby, neither business. Viewing your portfolio I found “well made images” there, mostly portraits. You already have reached high quality, so your purpose of “making images better” loses sense. Better is wide relative notion. However I don’t enjoy the most of your work. It doesn’t spurn me, of course. But it doesn’t bring to me any important message, it doesn’t teach me with that one. I even see here dependence on commercial manner, – don’t read those books!.. Yes, youth age when beauty appeared passed in photography. There’s nothing to discover today, except for yourself. What attitude can produce meaning-inspired images? I find illustrated thematic work one. An image itself contains no meaning, but it can represent meaning as it can represent beauty. So you need to observe something deeply first. That is why your invitation to India defeats me, what will five photogangsters do there? 😉 I also think that author’s comments are good for photography, that book tell me more than pure display. …What other countries do you prepare to visit? Do you enjoy pictorial photography? Do you like works by Edouard Boubat?
Here are your works that are good for my eye and taste:
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/places/India/2008/20080318_90959.jpg
/places/India/2008/20080323_92227.jpg
/places/India/2009/20090308_95544.jpg
/places/Germany/Hamburg/HarleyDays2010/20100625_1001174.jpg
/people/bw_portraits/20080324_92404_bw.jpg
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/places/India/2007/20070322_82590.jpg
/places/India/2007/20070324_83049.jpg
/places/India/2008/20080318_91234.jpg
/places/India/2008/20080319_91366.jpg
/places/India/2009/20090306_95346.jpg
/places/Sweden/20050818_17315.jpg
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I rejected some works because of:
* oversaturating
* insufficient photographic latitude
* lack of framing or space
* bad bokeh and surface rendering
* too thin aperture
* flat or harsh b&w look
Hm, Bojidar, you depend on a city magazine view of colour, but also on bad consumer cameras. May be, all of APS-sized sensors do not have adequate dynamic range and break colours. But simple Kodak GOLD film produces much more natural and pleasant images. So, going digital way, yo may either buy something like Sony A850, but here’s no complete good lens set today, or wait for price fall for digital backs, because second-hand medium-format camera isn’t more expensive itself than full-frame one. Both ways are costly, of course. I also call your attention to lens painting. Most of zoom lenses have “bad brush”. I’m sorry, I depend on criticism habit. 😉