milliped posted a photo:
I was shooting something quite different when they walked out the local pharmacie; they weren’t extremely rushed but the guy was not doing well. I really don’t know what happened, but I hope he’s doing better. Weird thing; I’m in my bed as I’m typing this, he probably isn’t sleeping in his own, but in a hospital bed. My thoughts are with you, monsieur.
breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet.
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breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet.
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breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet.
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breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet. Not sure what happened with the negs to get this weird pattern.
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breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet.
Fomapan 100
Ilford DDX 9mins
breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet.
Fomapan 100
Ilford DDX 9mins
breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet.
Fomapan 100
Ilford DDX 9mins
breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet.
Fomapan 100
Ilford DDX 9mins
breakbeat posted a photo:
A few Holga shots from the portrait shoot. No editing as yet.
Fomapan 100
Ilford DDX 9mins
S-NOCTURNUS posted a photo:
NO multi-invites and graphics , Thank you
Fake HDR from a single exposure shot
Not the best HDR on flickr , that’s for sure…I went out for shooting some photos today because I don’t work and the weather was wonderful , I took many diffrent shots but I wasn’t really excited about them , this photo is one of them..And when I decided to go home , on the road I see a very interesting man with a perfect face for my fav portraiture style , I pulled over and went to him wondering if it would be an easy task to photograph him or if he would deny an resist…So I said Hi and he replied Hi too..I took immediately a piece of change and gave it to him ,he accepted it , then asked him if it is OK if I take a photo of him , he said no problem , I took a burst of like 20 photos and I was veryyy excited because I knew that I had a big catch today lool , so when I took the road back I was happy because i knew that I had a great photo in the camera and that I didn’t waste my time then got home with poor photos like this one above..i’ll post the portrait tomorrow or maybe the day after..Hope I didn’t bore you with my story guys..Sorry for the English 
A friend of mind snapshooting the narrow streets of the old Media, she got home henne -harkooz to be exact (Berber makeup) in here hands.
Last Saturday night, riding the empty metro with some jerk friends nd taking some memorial photos (refer to my photolog) when suddenly a security customer (usually assigned to the metro through the hottest nights with increasing violence in Saturdays and beyond the midnights service) get out the driver booth and told me :”taking photos in the train is prohibited !! give me your camera !”, so my reaction was a big exclamation, my friends stood up and I told him that we were taking self photos, as he smelt the breeze of alcohol he gave up his fury.
The point is every time I tried to take a photo some guy usually the security forces, or even a simple employee, shows up and ask me to stop taking photos, as if I were shooting a nuclear plant or his daughter naked, damn world ! how can I practice photographing if everywhere my cam becomes a spy’s gadget ?
As locals taking photos of the market, people, the little wood next to your city around is always are not welcome : they will ask you to stop, or who you are ? or in some extreme cases :”show me you ID !”, ans so on, even I have developed many techniques of camouflage such as holding the cam in my hand and press the trigger, or try to find a hideout where nobody would notice me, or just talk with the people around creating some kind of friendship that leads to a unlimited photographing license, sometimes I have even paid to take shots.
Despite, If you’re a tourist to a resident foreigner (or just look like), you’ll just get smiles everywhere and take photos as free as a you were shooting your personnel garden, the police, or the people around won’t disturb your open photo workshop : God Bless Tourism !
I don’t understand this exaggerated awareness about the camera, or is it just about the media ? thus that most of the Tunisian think that all local photographers are working certainly for a newspaper, and their rear is justified as the press has been publishing unauthorized photos of many people without any permission for decades (the law has been fixed a few years ago), and all those photographers were pretending to be just making photos for joy or as souvenirs !
But the point is that Tunisian don’t really understand photography, except wedding or ID portrait, here in this country we don’t trust a man with a Camera, just because we don’t know him or we haven’t asked for his services, we don’t see the photos with art issues as they could harm our life making us uncovered.
It’s in the late years with the increasing popularity of the digital photography, that usual people shoot in the open air and that people are accepting those devices becoming a usual tool to memorize warm moments or just for fun, led by the outnumbering of the cell phones with camera, the freak is still on, but it’s getting less expressed to avoid getting damned as a retarded and primate person.
For the police two main reasons are making photography a real state enemy:
First, as those toys cam make videos, they have lately a useful tool to many people who started a propaganda videos, sex scenes or event took shocking videos who instantly spread over the web. Two stories are making sense to this : Two high school teacher shoot their self while making love, and the other is about a dancing policeman.
Secondly, the terrorism threat is making our national security more aware of … everybody, yes me and you and the guy pissing on the wall, as I’ve said before, we have no thought about art coming through photos, if you’re making a photo of the metro, you’re certainly getting ready to blow it, if you have take photos of an office, you’ll certainly come by night and steal its precious documents and if it’s not you, you’ll certainly send it to someone else, if ever you have no intention to any of those terrifying actions, someone in the web will use you photos as a material to harm our beloved republic. In one word, we don’t need your photos you can still make peaceful pencil drawings in a paper.
I have asked to colleagues graduated in law to find to make research and find me all about photography in the Tunisian law, the output will be published as soon as possible, and then I’ll get rid or may be of all this stupid behavior.
Finally, I just want to say , that I want make photos for fun, I don’t want to get nagged by a dirty bastard every time I tried to make an artistic photo,I don’t want to harm none, and I’d like to hear from your experiences and how do you faces such problems.
This is just a republish of an article I did write 2 years ago, since that things haven’t changed a lot.
GoGozo and its trip leaders put a distinct emphasis on fun, adventure and awareness building. With such exciting activities as riding camels in Tunisia, visiting the Star Wars filming site, or the nightly Balzan street festivals, there is much to experience.
Photographic instruction, including darkroom developing and computer manipulation, is an ongoing backdrop to our adventures. Students are encouraged to carry their cameras at all times and to experiment with new cameras including rudimentary pinholes, and single-use cameras.
Although Tunisians are claimed to be the experts of the Tourism business baking up their strategy through the sunny beaches, the sandy Sahara and a lot of fun, nobody made a statement how funny should be the education thus thus company offers a excellent trip all over Sicily, Malta and Tunisia and do you know why? because this line of marvelous country hold the best and essentials of the Mediterranean beauty, all you can is to take your camera off your bag and start to shoot.
Unfortunately this service seems to be open to European rather than locals, and the point is why we don’t invest a little in such great new business idea, in one part you can get everybody practice photography in the right ways, and in an other hand you can go anywhere including the less concerned area such as mountainous or less know or less visited historic monuments as photography can be operated any where there is a piece of beauty.
IMHO such places as Zaghouan would benefit from such business, the government have tried several years to pump the Tourism somehow there in vain, too far from the beaches and the hotels with couple of major historic monuments, but they never thought about innovation, many tourist nowadays practice photography not just to stamp their last summer travel as much as photography itself.
In Tunis, there few events involving photography beside a couple of small festivals, ATB challenge is one of the major and most buzzed events ever without being that great thing about arts, the challenge is about three disciplines: Art (Photography, Cinema, painting), Technology and Business. The photography is the major part of the whole competition involving less than one hundred amateur willing to get one the prizes: 1st prize 7000 TND (About 5000USD), 1000 TND for the second one and finally 500 TND for the last challenger.
This the jury is always a gathering of business man ans celebrities unable to differ photography from art, I have been in the first edition which spots “The national treasures” my main work was a set of photos of Sidi Ali Azzouz(Zaghouan) a splendid and Arabic post-Andalusian style and I was beaten by a guy shooting his hand as “The hand that build Tunisia” and a girl taking El Jem coliseum arches with her mobile phone as a matter of fun.
The event is -unfortunately- not promoting fun as a propaganda like what the bank is smart and it supports arts and young people. Anyway, I keep the faith and stand to see what’s going to be about this edition titled: Mediterranean sea : unionism and diversity.
