Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Rua Sampaio Bruno, 37
(The full length faux mink coat)




Trivia (CXXIV) - The money question


Incoming
richardo i like your pictures and most especially your passion for the act. So tell me, do you make money from the practice or it is just a hobby.
@magotey 

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Rua de Santa Catarina, 230
(The senior guy who told me five things)


A. He's been smoking pipe for over 60 years;
B. He has a 50+ pipe Collection;
C. Collecting pipes is a wonderful pastime for the young and old;
D. He has no interest whatsoever in photography; and
E. I shouldn't be wasting film on him.








Sunday, January 25, 2015

Casa da Música
(The cute violinist)


Prelude, Partita n.3 BWV 1006 (J. S. Bach) by Ianina Khmelik




Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Trivia (CXXIII) - The delayed introduction


i shoot strangers in the streets of porto, portugal


My name is Ricardo Porto and I shoot strangers in the streets of Porto, Portugal. I’ve been doing it for the last 4 and a quarter years, a hobby turned crusade. I always shoot alone and most of my pictures are posed portraits. I choose people that I find interesting and I ask them for a pic. They usually say yes.

I have one camera, one fixed lens, two batteries, one gray card and one lenspen and this is the only gear I use. No backpack, no photo bag, no tripod, no flash, no mega-zoom.

I usually walk the same city areas, mainly downtown, but as I like it to be kind of random, I never prepare my photowalk in advance.

I publish daily on my blog and all portraits are captioned with the place where they were taken and a brief description of what caught my attention.

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Camera: I use a Panasonic GF2 Micro Four Thirds camera + 20 mm f 1.7 lens. It's a little bit old but I got attached to her and it's difficult to end the relationship, though i have secret thoughts about other cameras.

Settings: aperture priority, usually at f2.2-2.8 (depending of the number of subjects in the pic), custom WB (5350 k) and ISO 100.

Post: I use lightroom just to give a bit contrast (+10), clarity(+20), less highlights (-30), adjust WB if needed and resize (720 short edge).

Rua Sá da Bandeira, 270
(The plaid trooper hat)



Sunday, January 18, 2015

Trivia (CXXII) - The Flint Magazine article


I was featured for a second time on Flint Magazine. This sounds really cool in english. Check the link below and in the way subscribe the magazine:

«The Boat Man & The Mini Titanic»

http://flintmag.com/goa_titanic/





Rua de Santa Catarina, 276
(The portuguese zamarra)


Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Rua Fernandes Tomás, 725
(The girl who had previously promised me a pic)


Trivia (CXXI) - Pro Advice



"It should come as no surprise that I am in love with this little camera. Something about it has gotten me to take more photos in the last three months than I have in the last two years combined. In fact, this camera was one of the impetuses that led me to Nepal — I wanted a great subject on which to use it. 
A GF1 outfitted with the 20MM lens represents the following: a compact, beautiful little machine capable of producing archival quality photographic RAW data. It’s always with me. Almost never a burden. And every time I dump a day’s worth of shooting into Lightroom, I feel like that little kid so long ago, rediscovering why I became infatuated with photography in the first place."

Mod, C. 2009. "The GF1 is a near perfect travel camera - What I love about this camera". craigmod.com/, [blog] December, Available at: http://craigmod.com/journal/gf1-fieldtest/ [Accessed: 13 Jan 2015].