Pasiunea Pentru Fotografie

[dreaQ]

Alinake - zona lipscani-covaci sambata. Photo-hunter nu l-am intrerupt. Pasionat... >

[Alinake]

ce mesaj cifrat .. nu prea l-am inteles ... intr-adevar.. eram pe acolo.. cu fata ... cautam initial verighete.. da am trecut si pe la magazinele de profil foto din zona ...

 

am cateva street-photo din acea zi (astea de le pun sunt din herastrau):

 

Super-trooper:

 

Just the two of us:

 

Cracks in time:

Edited April 3, 2006 by Alinake

[VECTOR]

frumoase peisaje

[pixelconscious]

Putin offtopic, dar sper sa va faca placere articolul:

 

 

 

The Effect Of Democracy On Journalists

Thursday, April 6, 2006

The Christian Science Monitor

By Timothy Kenny

 

 

 

Confidence and digital cameras have replaced hesitancy and unheated classrooms.

 

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - The black-and-white photograph has frayed a bit over 13 years. It shows eight Romanian students and me smiling, glasses raised in celebration of the end of our month-long odyssey to produce the first student newspaper at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Journalism.

 

The year was 1992. Those students, now in their early 30s, are no longer "emerging adults," as I often call students. Now they're accomplished professionals in a variety of fields, from journalism to marketing and advertising; one is a member of the Romanian Parliament. I keep that picture of my early days in Romania in my office at the University of Connecticut and look at it often. It is a snapshot, in both the literal and figurative sense, of lives impacted by democracy and the value of engaging the world.

 

I returned to the Faculty of Journalism in June 2005 as a short-term Fulbright scholar to teach a 10-day seminar to current students. Best of all, I would help celebrate a reunion with that first class of 50 students. Since my arrival in Romania in the fall of 1991, I have returned a half dozen or more times as a reporter, teacher, and foundation executive. I have kept in touch over the years with many of my former Romanian students as they made their way to American grad schools, were awarded Fulbright fellowships, found jobs in Western Europe and worked their way up the ladder in Romanian journalism and public life.

 

But it was clear at our reunion - held at an expensive restaurant that could not have existed when I first arrived in Bucharest - that my former students' lives were now filled with the worries of adulthood: spouses, babies, buying and repairing homes and cars and, of course, finding better jobs.

 

Their success was what I imagined hard work would bring. Many of them, as I recall, were less optimistic about the future in 1991. We had no textbooks or computers at school. We wore coats in our unheated classrooms.

 

At our reunion, my former students recalled a journalistic lesson they learned about reporting. When a gasoline price hike was about to take effect in Bucharest, the streets surrounding nearby Cotroceni Palace were filled with long lines of impatient drivers hoping to buy benzina for their cars before prices skyrocketed the next day. I ordered my students out of the classroom to interview drivers about the problem.

 

The students complained long and loud about the assignment. They worried that no one would talk to them, that people would laugh at them because they were only students and not real reporters; besides, many said, that was not how journalism was done in Romania. "I know," I replied. "That's the point. Go report." So they went out and got quotes and wrote stories and remembered at our reunion 13 years later the value of what they, too, now call "legwork."

 

Much is different in today's cleaner, more prosperous Romania, heading toward European Union membership in 2007. More of today's Romanian students speak English, and speak it better, than in 1991. In my 2005 Bucharest summer school class, all 16 students carried cellphones and used computers; most seemed more sophisticated about using computer programs than many American journalism students.

 

Four of the Romanians in last summer's class owned digital cameras. All had cable or satellite TV at home and used the Internet to e-mail friends in Romania and around the world. And while students from that first class have carved out successful lives in a variety of careers, last summer's class of 19-year-olds has just begun that process. They have easier lives in many ways than those in my first class, whom I taught not long after Romania's 1989 Christmas revolution.

 

The life views of today's students reflect the optimism of a Romania that boasts progressive political leadership and an improving economy. Pensioners can still be seen begging on Bucharest's streets and barefoot children prowl the metro stations in search of handouts. But life is visibly better in the capital and other cities. Unemployment is just over 6 percent and inflation has dropped from 40.7 percent in 2000 to 8.9 percent in January 2006.

 

Today's students are also a far cry from the "citizen journalists" who emerged throughout Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. Like their colleagues from the early 1990s, today's Romanian journalists often find work in professional news outlets while they're still in school, confident that their journalistic tools - as competent and fair-minded as those we use in the US - will carry them as far as their ambitions will allow.

 

Life is changing rapidly for Romanians, especially young people with brains, education, and a willingness to work.

 

That first class no longer needs a mentor, but the second one might. There are bright possibilities ahead; I'd like to see what that second group of students will do with their lives. Their accomplishments and values - built on the hard work of the students from the class of 1991 - will make an important difference in what Romania becomes over the next 20 years.

 

Timothy Kenny, a former journalist, nonprofit foundation executive, and Fulbright scholar, is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, April 6, 2006

The Christian Science Monitor

By Timothy Kenny

[masterbobs]

Lugu lugu bla bla bla...Nu imi place...nu reflecta realitatea...dar din vreo zece motive nu am timp sa dezvolt aceasta idee...dar pe scurt as spune ca individul asta, de altfel un ilustru necunoscut isi da cu parerea dupa ce a mancat o paine de pe urma mizeriei predemocrate...

[mike.omega]

A venit primavaraaaa!

Asa ca azi dupa meditatie am plecat intr-o plimbare de cateva ore in parc sa imi clatesc ochii cu verdele ierbii si sa realizez cateva fotografii

 

Am inceput sa ma joc cu focalizarea manuala mai nou, nu imi ies mie toate incercarile dar am eu timp sa ma perfectionez

 

Albumul foto

[masterbobs]

Parafrazand un clasic... "Puţin, ca tot ce este bun. Şi bun ca tot ce este rar."

Imi plac...bafta in continuare..ca eu unul nu mai am timp.

[Moshu]

Da, imi plac. Nu sunt critic de arta fotografica, dara daca plac "poporului" ti-ai atins scopul. Se vede ca ai exersat comenzile aparatului. Si oricum, fotografia neprelucrata spune tot despre mana si ochiul dumitale >- Ca in fotoshop o faci de nu-i adevarat... Si aceea este o arta, dar mai frumoase sunt "naturale".

Parerea mea. ">

[mike.omega]

Da cine a zis ca sunt neprelucrate?! )

Doar ca nu folosesc photoshop ci photobase 4.5

 

Oricum multumesc pentru apreiceri

Edited April 10, 2006 by mike.omega

[Alinake]

am ajuns si eu in cele din urma pe la vulcanii noroiosi .. insa ca un destept ce sunt, fara baterie la aparat.. ma rog.. fara baterie destula.. nu il mai incarcasem de 2 sapt, si nush ce a fost in capul meu.. am tras mult mai putine cadre decat as fi vrut, dar asta e.. va arat cateva

 

[masterbobs]

lipicios, cleios...lasand gluma la o parte...sunt frumoase...pacat de "bacterie"

[Satori]

Cum naiba ai reusit sa prinzi basica??? M-am chinuit pana mi s-a terminat bacteria!!!

[mike.omega]

Nene Satori, timp de expunere mic, stai cu degetu pe shutter pana la 1/2(adica pana focalizeaza) si cand simti/vezi ca vine basica apesi Acuma depinde de la aparat la aparat timpul in care face poza de la momentul apasarii pana la capat al butonului si pana la declansare )"> (asa am facut si eu poza cu copilu pe topogan, numai ca in cazul meu stiam sigur cand vine kinderu )

 

Alinake: noaptea nu te-a tentat sa ramai? am inteles ca se pot realiza cadre superbe cu niste torte

[VIPER]

Sau faci burst... Much easier...

[Alinake]

Viper stie .. am bagat pe burst, ceea ce a ajutat la termenarea bateriei, si asa pe moarte .. da macar am prins vre-o doua

[Moshu]

Da cine a zis ca sunt neprelucrate?! )

Doar ca nu folosesc photoshop ci photobase 4.5

 

Oricum multumesc pentru apreiceri

 

Eu am zis ca sunt neprelucrate, cine altul? Chiar si cu rezerva asta, imi asum eroarea dar imi mentin parerea. Daca nu crezi, da vreo cateva pagini in urma si vezi singur diferenta dintre ce faceai atunci si ce este acum...

[Sharpe]

Imagini de presa-realitate cotidiana.

 

Foto:Florin BIOLAN/Romania libera

Edited April 10, 2006 by Sharpe

[mike.omega]

@Moshu: Diferenta o vad, e clara, e in niste giga pe hdd

Nici mie nu-mi plac editarile in photoshop futuriste sau mult prea pronuntate. Il prefer pe photobase 4.5 deoarece e mult mai simplu si eficient pentru mine. Am 8 moduri de tonuri ale culorilor pt o poza selectata. 4 mai inchise, 4 mai deschise si eu aleg ce mi se pare mie mai apropiat de realitate

 

@Sharpe: mi s-a parut ca ai zgomot in unele poze si am vrut sa ma leg de viata aparatului tau foto dar ma abtin

Edited April 10, 2006 by mike.omega

[VECTOR]

m-am jucat si eu putin cu expunerea si mi-am dat seama ca prietena mea este de fapt fantoma.

 

@Sharpe: mi s-a parut ca ai zgomot in unele poze si am vrut sa ma leg de viata aparatului tau foto dar ma abtin

 

 

zgomotul ca zgomotul insa realitatea este cruda iar fotografiile astea exprima multe.

[mike.omega]

In cele 5 secunde timp de expunere trebuia sa nu se miste ca sa iasa toata in poza si nu sub forma de fantoma sau mai stiu eu ce

[NFS]

Altu' care are frigider ca al meu si ca al lui Satori )

[VECTOR]

Altu' care are frigider ca al meu si ca al lui Satori )

 

 

poate facem un club...are si al tau fluturasi atasati?

 

@mike...asta e efectul pe care am vrut sa-l obtin,dar nu ma asteptam sa iasa chiar asa transparenta.

Edited April 10, 2006 by VECTOR

[Alinake]

din cate vad pozele nu sunt ale lui Sharpe .. oricum.. felicitari fotografului (transmite-i Sharpe daca il cunosti personal) .. un unghi de prezentare a realitatii triste pe care nu multi il vad

[paul_marines]

@Sharpe: mi s-a parut ca ai zgomot in unele poze si am vrut sa ma leg de viata aparatului tau foto dar ma abtin

 

Si ce bine ai facut.

[Satori]

Auzi? Fluturele ca fluturele, dar ce e chestia aia de pe frigider?

 

 

PS: Nu mai pot sa fac poze pe manual. In ultimul timp, cand fac asta, imi apare o pata destul de mica, intunecata undeva sus stanga. Ca si cand ar fi lentila murdara, dar NUMAI pe manual.