a Portrait of an Artist

Dan Rappaport 

painter and sculptor 

Jaffa, August 2018 

Canon 5d 

50mm 1.4

yasmin. a portrait

זמן, זכרונות, אנשים, נשים, מחשבות

The Portraits series

portraits of people in the studio
textures and colours

portraits, black, studio, studio photography, photography 

the city as a canvas

The city can be used as a canvas for art, street art, that is.
No museum walls can give you that emercive feeling of walking through the art.
you are allowed to touch, even use flash photography, if you want.
It's fun, its a discovery trail, a walk through art, without narration, without your Audio guide.

the artist do not get paid by the meter, you don't care about them. who they are, where they studied, what influenced them. You just see the art.
Buildings, walls, bricks, windows, everything is becoming part of the work.

Lior, portraits

ליאור

15.00

תל אביב

2015 אור אחרון ביום של חורף

50mm

50 mm
full frame

that's the only lens you really need.
it makes your Dslr compact and efficient while travelling, it reproduces more or less what your eyes normally see.
you want to zoom in ? come closer
perhaps a wide over view ? take a few steps back, as you would with your real vision.

until they make us into cyborg, and replace our biological eyes with smart cameras, we are seeing about 42°.

it used to be the real "kit lens" of the analog age.
you buy a nikon F2 - get a great 50mm with it.

unless you're shooting extreem architectural shots, or landscape, you don't need anything shorter.
it has little if any distortion, durable and easy to use. and it can be fast. very fast.

You can produce stunning images with a good old fixed lens. Better for some video work even.

I have a few 50mm.
even the cheaper ones from canon are getting me excellent result, and the better, analog nikon one (with adaptor) produces exquisite result.

Canon 5D MK II with the 50mm canon 1.8
Jpeg original file

Canon 5D MK I + nikon 50mm 1.4 manual focus.

magicial little polaroid shop

while walking through the enchanting streets of old Madrid, we came across a photography shop at   Calle Barquillo, and of course, I could not resist and entered. 

As it turns out, the shop is really a little gem of everything polaroid and it's following team - the impossible project.

An impressive collection of pola-cameras and photographs.

The shop has also a small photo studio and it is owned by now the 3rd generation of photographers.
One of the proudest item is an old wooden camera, fitted with a polaroid 8x10 back, passed down in the family.

The youngest generation is a newly married couple, he's a film maker and she's the grand daughter of the shop's founder. 

They even had their marriage photo, taken by the old wood camera.

They handle everything polaroid, here's their site: 

  http://www.alanstudio.es/