a personal introduction to Japanese photography
A year has passed again and it is time for me to prepare for the annual JRP chapter exhibition, starting Tuesday next week. Last year I showed four landcape images, taken on 8×10. This time it is all 35mm, eight photographs taken this summer during my summer holiday in Europe. Actually I am rather surprised that after feeling to struggle with pictures from back home so much that I had anything presentable at all. Still, with some emotional distance and good efforts editing down the selected images seemed to improve the more I looked at them. Now I am quite pleased and the images appear to have taken on a life of their own.


July 21st, 2003 at 13:34
nice one Dirk. the b/w looks so crisp. does this mean the Finance Minister approved the scanner appropriations bill?
July 21st, 2003 at 16:45
Haha, yes Kurt! I meant to write about the new acquisition, which actually happened last weekend, but it took some time to set up everything. Besides it’s not such a glamourous item, like some other tech toys, which as a down-to-earth guy I am quite happy about.
I haven’t scanned for a long time, especially transparencies. Some results (colour) are disppointing, but that’s because I haven’t looked into the Art of Scanning yet. I hope we can talk about that when we meet next time!
Anyway, as for photos, watch this space!
Dirk
July 22nd, 2003 at 15:30
dirk-
one of the reasons (shh, don’t tell anyone) that pushed me back to b/w was the frustration with scanning color. It’s just never right, and seems to require hours in PHotoshop tweaking all sorts of little things. At any rate, yeah, we should talk about it sometime.