Michiel Schierbeek
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Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)
I was a bit busy but I did write something yesterday evening about your write up, but sadly getdpi often has a habit to have you sign in again especially after you wrote a long piece which is a bit of an effort for me in English.So it lets you sign in again and everything you wrote is lost in oblivion. Happened to me many times. So copy before posting.
I too am interested in the more common places, or unremarkable place asyou call them, which are not directly interesting as such but only come to live when you give them your special attention. The other tourist highlights are already very well documented by everyone else and will only generate special interest to me when you do something different with these places like for example someone like MartinParr.
I learned a lot by looking at the work from other photographers. I just ordered 3 more books from photographers tha tinterest me.
I am now working on this series on the Côte d'Opale, Côte Picarde and Côte d'Albâtre. This coastline is very interesting to me because of the variation in scenery but also the changes that took place after WWII. The fast reconstruction of coasttowns, mostly in a sort of prefab concrete and often placed sobrutally on the most beautiful locations at the seaside. I will post an illustration of this within this post although it is not a Sonypicture.
Of course I am not the only photographer who is/was fascinated by this region. Somebody drew my attention to the book of Gabriele Basilico, published in 1984 already, called - Bord de mer -,a fantastic book in black and white. What happened is that this photographer had exactly the same point of view in a number of photographs as I chose much later in color. Very interesting.
Ialso ordered - The spirit of Dunkerque - by William Eggleston and Iordered – Uncommon places – by Stephan Shore. In another tread Imentioned already this fascinating book by Martin Roemers called -Metropolis -.
But anyway all this didn't stop me from making abook of my own on this coastline. It will be called - Opale etAlbâtre - also because these coastnames illustrate the colours present so well. I did write a piece in French for it and had itchecked by a friend, I believe the last sentence is still wrongbecause I had no time because of a discount deadline. Well it is onlya first proof, so time enough to correct.
Here is a link to the book publishing side so you can have a virtual look: https://www.fotofabriek.nl/preview/?id=C0D52E6F888FB400F22EF88A3862AE30
So like you Annna I am also interested in architecture and/or otherremains of human interventions. And you inspired me to use my MamiyaShift 50/4 lens, which I should have done much earlyer! BTW a terrific lens!
Interesting read! And thank you for your credits!Mmm that is a difficult question.. I'm not sure that I can answer, but may be some contextual information may help you understand what I'm after.
1) I'm selftaught in matters of photography. I have no special visual education apart of the fact that I shared the life of an architect for a few years. I have a scientific background having studied history/geography and specialized in urban studies and quantitative methods.
2) So I can tell you why the subject interest me : while I'm now retired, I have kept a strong interest in everything concerning urbanism, planning and architecture. I want to show the urban landscape and everyday's environment. I'm interested by space in general and how the human beings occupy and mark the territory. Those spaces are interesting to my eyes because this the frame/environment where people live. That is : I want to show unremarkable places because ordinary people live there. Well once you begin to ram a neighborhood, it is no more true that the buildings are unremarkable. You can see traces of different periods of the history and each neighborhood has its own character.
3) I know that I get more likes when I show the pictures of the two castles.. But they are a little too "postcardish". Even if I do still appreciate that view and catch a picture each time the light or weather is a little special.
4) Getting a good and successful picture of those everyday environments which a priori are unremarkable is much more compelling and probably a little too much for my skills. But I'm trying hard..
5) that building with its flat facade and the serial repetition and variation of the position of the windows has something fascinating for me. I liked the red toboggan and the dwarfed playground. That said : may be I shouldn't have shown that picture : in fact I would have liked a slightly larger view (but I only had a the 24mm and 90mm, while the 45mm would have been better.
6) I want to show the soul of these places. I have strange tastes when it comes to buildings .. I like everything modern and contemporary which many people think are ugly. But well, I'm probably not really up to the task. I examine carefully every picture of Michiel Shierbeek because his subjects of interest are near of mines and I study how he solved problems I also have (how he is dividing space, where he cut the frame, how he balance things, etc..
7) to sum up : I should leave my window and practice more in order to get better at what I want to achieve.
Thanks for looking.
I was a bit busy but I did write something yesterday evening about your write up, but sadly getdpi often has a habit to have you sign in again especially after you wrote a long piece which is a bit of an effort for me in English.So it lets you sign in again and everything you wrote is lost in oblivion. Happened to me many times. So copy before posting.
I too am interested in the more common places, or unremarkable place asyou call them, which are not directly interesting as such but only come to live when you give them your special attention. The other tourist highlights are already very well documented by everyone else and will only generate special interest to me when you do something different with these places like for example someone like MartinParr.
I learned a lot by looking at the work from other photographers. I just ordered 3 more books from photographers tha tinterest me.
I am now working on this series on the Côte d'Opale, Côte Picarde and Côte d'Albâtre. This coastline is very interesting to me because of the variation in scenery but also the changes that took place after WWII. The fast reconstruction of coasttowns, mostly in a sort of prefab concrete and often placed sobrutally on the most beautiful locations at the seaside. I will post an illustration of this within this post although it is not a Sonypicture.
Of course I am not the only photographer who is/was fascinated by this region. Somebody drew my attention to the book of Gabriele Basilico, published in 1984 already, called - Bord de mer -,a fantastic book in black and white. What happened is that this photographer had exactly the same point of view in a number of photographs as I chose much later in color. Very interesting.
Ialso ordered - The spirit of Dunkerque - by William Eggleston and Iordered – Uncommon places – by Stephan Shore. In another tread Imentioned already this fascinating book by Martin Roemers called -Metropolis -.
But anyway all this didn't stop me from making abook of my own on this coastline. It will be called - Opale etAlbâtre - also because these coastnames illustrate the colours present so well. I did write a piece in French for it and had itchecked by a friend, I believe the last sentence is still wrongbecause I had no time because of a discount deadline. Well it is onlya first proof, so time enough to correct.
Here is a link to the book publishing side so you can have a virtual look: https://www.fotofabriek.nl/preview/?id=C0D52E6F888FB400F22EF88A3862AE30
So like you Annna I am also interested in architecture and/or otherremains of human interventions. And you inspired me to use my MamiyaShift 50/4 lens, which I should have done much earlyer! BTW a terrific lens!