Thank you Andy Alexis
on 8/1/02 1:31 am, Andy Schmitt at aschm...@warwick.net wrote: > Alex > When you ht reply your mail program cut off part of the URL > try: > > http://www.???????/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=jlouis_t > hiry_1.jpg > > andy > > Jean-Louis > WHAT NEAT IMAGES. The dwarf in #2 is perfect for the picture...thanks > andy > -----Original Message----- > From: pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ??????? > [mailto:pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ???????]On Behalf Of ragowaring > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:43 PM > To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??????? > Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Dwarf pictures > > > on 7/1/02 6:40 pm, Jean-Louis Thiry at multim...@wanadoo.fr wrote: > >> As it is the first time I'm posting a message, though I avidly read every >> messages of this list every morning (and learn a lot from it) before > beginning >> to work. Let me introduce myself. My name is Jean-Louis Thiry and I'm a > french >> graphic designer working in a hi-tech environment (I got addicted to the >> Macintosh thing 12 years ago, but before that all I did was done by hand > and >> reflexion and of course by photographic process) which drove me to a lot > of >> questions and changes. >> I needed a lo-tech activity to rediscover what was missing in my (long) > day >> job >> : reflexion, nothing between my brain and my images except my hands and > eyes >> and >> that's how i naturally came to the pinhole photography . In fact I began >> pinholing from nothing to refer to, only some childhood reminicences of > how to >> make a photo with simply a hole in a shoe box. Then I discover I could get >> some >> nice images easily if I took the time to think about what I wanted to do > and >> what I wanted to get (until then I thought that there were no photos > existing >> aside the Nikon FM2). It's only after building two or three cameras and > films >> holders that I discover that there were a lot of people sharing that > interest >> ans ejoying it at whatever the level of use - from rough cardboard box to >> expensive large format cameras, computer digital work and more scientifics >> users. I must say that I learned more in the last few months about photos, >> camera, eye's vision, paper sensitivity and above all what can be unique > in a >> photo than in the last thirty years. >> I build all my cameras, spend a lot of time (and no money) at it. Only > made >> from >> cardboard and paper, I need them to be beautiful, clothed with nice and >> luxuous >> papers (I'm lucky enough to get a lot of samples from paper manufacturers) > and >> as solid as wood boxes would be. If I get some good responses to the > photos I >> just uploaded, I'll send some of my boxes. I love to build boxes and to > find >> solutions for the shutter, the way to attach the film holder, to make the > hole >> (printer's plate). I spend also a lot of time to experiment with the wide >> range >> of graphic art films and negative paper. >> What I knew before but became more important when I went to pinhole is the >> importance of the negative. A negative is a complete image and is NOT the >> contrary of what we see, rather something we CANNOT see. It is more > evident >> for >> me when I handpaint - it would certainly be easier and faster with > Photoshop >> but >> I don't want to - my negatives. >> The two photos I upload show a plaster dwarf on one with me (I am the > tallest >> of >> both), and looking at the top of a ladder on the other. For the more >> technicals >> of you : negative papers 100 x 150 mm and focal length 185 mm, hole 0,51 >> mm/diam, etc >> enjoy, Forgive my english, ans happy new year to everyone >> >> Jean-Louis >> >> > http://www.???????/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=jlouis_t > hi >> ry_1.jpg >> > http://www.???????/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=jlouis_t > hi >> ry_2.jpg >> -- >> DON'T MISS !!! >> __________________________________________________________ >> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/multimage/sessionbanjo/ >> __________________________________________________________ >> >> MULT'IMAGE >> Applications graphiques - 41, rue Voltaire - ZI Nord >> F-82000 MONTAUBAN >> Tél 05 63 63 54 54 - Fax 05 63 63 11 18 - ISDN 05 63 63 11 18 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pinhole-Discussion mailing list >> Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? >> unsubscribe or change your account at >> http://www.???????/discussion/ > Dear Jean-Louis > > Your upload does not seem to be linked, but that does not matter. > > You love boxes and so do I! One of the things about the pinhole is the box. > > The box contains and in containment we can reconcile ourselves with the > fluxes and changes in the world. > > But the pinhole holds a special magic. From nothing you can create an > image, it is a truly wonderful thing. There are no hidden workings or > barriers. There is no agent or device between the subject and its image. > Only air. > > Pinhole is not just about the image as is testified by the beautiful cameras > made by makers. There is more to the image than the image itself, the > making, the process weaves a magic that cannot be unravelled from the image > when seen. > > > Alexis > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/
