By gosh, he's got it! I think he's got it! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Louis Thiry" <multim...@wanadoo.fr> To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 12:40 PM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Dwarf pictures
> 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 hiry_1.jpg > http://www.???????/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=jlouis_t hiry_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/ >
