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In my visual development, not much has changed (from my perspective). Some things have. The basic ideas, composition, and especially the visual message and its background have remained almost the same. However, they have been strengthened.
Creating accurate, realistic photos was never my goal, never my passion. There are better photographers in this field, especially for documentaries or war photography. Journalism in that sense isn't my thing either.
Something else?
Time as a dimension has always interested me much more!
Why can we only move through it in one direction? This is clearly a systemic issue.
However, it works with the other dimensions, because for us humans, they are bidirectional!
Time is somewhat different in this respect.
Why should I only show a thousandth of a second from a person's life,
when it could be 10 seconds in one shot?
That's ten thousand times more!
Why should the reality of a photograph always be real? There are other ways! After all, my pictures are never suitable as "testimony".
The view and angle don't always have to coincide in the "here and now". It's enough if it will happen sometime in the afterlife.
One picture can tell a story. Two can too. And sometimes even three or more. It just depends. Creativity is something that creates something new out of nothing (or sometimes out of not much more).
Whether it's "liked" is irrelevant. Of course, there are also nuances, as can be seen here.
Yes, of course! Digitally, that's no problem anyway. With 8-bit, it's 256. With 10-bit, it's already 1024, and you can barely fit that much onto a sheet of paper.
With digital images, things get even more colorful. JPGs have 256 shades per color. With three primary colors, that gives you just over 16 million different shades. That should be enough. If not, more is technically possible.
But: on glossy photo paper, it stops at just one million. On canvas, even sooner.
Nature. Our eyes can also see many millions more colors.
Or to put it another way: with our technology, we are simply nothing compared to nature. Just a little more arrogant and conceited.
So let's go!
I need my images, my photos, I enjoy looking at them. I also consume them, use them as raw material, much like other people. For example, a chef also needs beets, oranges, or tomatoes as raw material to create something different, much better, something new, wonderful, even though the ingredients also taste excellent raw.
Well, I use pixels, usually by the thousands or millions. Since the advent of digital cameras, this has become easier. It used to be a bit more difficult. Sure, you could have sliced and diced the negative film and put it back together... but the "fretwork" in the darkroom wasn't really my thing.
I prefer to play with time when taking photos. Because the "time" dimension in images is one of the most fascinating things, even when it's hardly possible for purely practical reasons.
Yes. Go ahead! Where should I start? It's obvious, actually... at the beginning.
But that starts now, here and now. But many of my images are still somewhere in my photo archive. Preliminary work has already been done. I called it Continuum . But by no means all of the old photos are included. I had adhered to my archiving system well with the black and white negatives. Things are slightly different with the slides.
Many photos are already in the "new" archive, the digital one. Great! And there are actually quite a few in there that look usable.
And... new pictures will be created too!
