NON-DIGITAL PIXELS or HOW WAS THIS DONE?

By Monika Kopeć

When I studied photography in college a few years ago, one of the assignments was called “Formal Portrait.”  Everyone approached the assignment very conservatively, setting up typical, formal portraits with low ratio lighting, neutral backgrounds etc.  Even a somewhat stronger Rembrandt lighting was considered a bit daring.  With other words, formal was being equated with conservative.

I have never been a conservative individual, and I wasn’t about to change course simply because of the title of the assignment.  I began to think of what I could do to take a formal portrait and yet have it displayed in a non-conventional manner.

The result was a photograph taken by entirely conventional means, on film.  No digital photography or Photoshop was involved.

Whenever people see the picture, their first thought is digital and Photoshop, and even then I am always asked how the shot was taken.  I guess it is somewhat hard to imagine and I am curious what readers of this blog think how it was done.

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

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LEICA PICTURE STORY - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

A while ago we decided to spend a month in the Dominican Republic.  We were not interested in the typical tourist spots; instead we looked for an area away from it all.  We found this on the Samana peninsula, more specifically in Las Terrenas with its incredible Playa Bonita.

After arriving in Puerto Plata from Miami, we had to set out on an adventurous two and a half hour ride by van to Las Terrenas.  People definitely drive differently there.  But we made it without incident in spite of the driving and roads that consisted of pot holes connected by bits of asphalt.

We settled in at the Hotel Coyamar, a very nice but small, ten room establishment.  After spending an evening in the Coya Bar we settled in for the night, looking forward to exploring the surroundings.

The hotel was only a few feet from the Playa Bonita, praised as one of the most beautiful bays in the Caribbean.  What followed were four weeks of total relaxation with great weather, great food and great people.

 

Hotel Coyamar

 

Evening at the Coya Bar

 

View of the Playa Bonita from the hotel

Playa Bonita

Landscaping at the Hotel Coyamar

A new friend

Road along the Palya Bonita

Looks are deceiving - This restaurant served incredibly delicious grilled fish

Las Terrenas

 Last evening at the Playa Bonita

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KLAUS ENDER - EAST GERMAN NUDE AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER

Even today, 25 years after the reunification of Germany, relatively little is known about photographers who worked in the former East Germany.  One of those photographers is Klaus Ender.

Klaus Ender was born in Berlin in 1939.  In 1962 he moved to the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea and fell in love with it.  He was a passionate amateur photographer and was the only East German amateur who managed to publish in major journals such as Das Magazin (The Magazine) and Eulenspiegel and then turn his hobby into a profession. On 10 May 1966 he began his work as a freelance nude and landscape photographer. After only a few years he became one of the top East German photographers and published with more than 50 publishers. In 1972 he left Rügen, because of political pressures and moved to Potsdam. 

 

He became a commercial photographer and used his free time to pursue his artistic photography.  In 1981 he left the GDR and moved to Austria, where he started over again, penniless and at ground zero.  After only a few years, in 1989, he finally became known internationally.

Companies like Leica, Minox, Zeiss, Hama, B + W, Metz, among others used his photographs for their advertising.

Klaus Ender with Leica R8

It wasn’t until 1996 that he was able to return to the island of Rügen where he started his career and where he celebrated his 45th anniversary as a professional photographer.

Klaus Ender is one of the few East German photographers who also had an impressive international career.

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