Good day everybody! My title is Gabriel, and I’m a road and portrait photographer and a university pictures teacher.
I’m a minimalist and shoot virtually solely on movie for private {and professional} causes.
Though I personal a number of cameras and lenses (many, in line with my fiancée, and too many, in line with my household and accountant), I’ve my favourite digicam, which I not often go away behind.
What can I say about my gear and pictures?
I like simplicity, whether or not in my photographs or whereas creating them.
There are a number of the reason why I made a decision to give up digital pictures, as I didn’t notably recognize taking a large variety of similar-looking photos, being pressured to be too quick and too obsessive about some notion of perfection whereas watching a small display and making an attempt to take a greater snap each time.
Additionally, I wasn’t proud of digital cameras and their infinite features.
Don’t get me unsuitable; it’s unbelievable how far know-how has progressed. However regardless of being in my early thirties, I’m an precise technological dinosaur who can barely reply his emails with no psychological breakdown!
The extra complicated the cameras grew to become, the extra I craved one thing less complicated, and by easy, I don’t imply a point-and-shoot digicam however an analog gadget with a couple of bodily buttons.
In any case, I’ve primarily based my complete profession on simplicity.
Nikon EM – It’s been a 12 months or two since I began capturing with the one and solely Nikon EM.
I’ve by no means actually been a technical geek, and generally, even when individuals hand me their digicam saying, “It’s the perfect gadget I’ve ever had,” I care extra about the way it feels to carry, how I just like the place of the viewfinder and buttons, and the way I get pleasure from turning the main focus ring.
The Nikon EM was love at first sight, and it by no means light.
Honorable mentions should additionally go to a few of my lesser-used cameras, such because the Canon QL19, which I used for road pictures earlier than, my backup digicam, the Canon EOS 3000, the Praktica LB, which my mother and father gave me after I was a youngster and even the Polaroid 600.
When you’re a form of anti-Photoshop, old-school photographer, the acquisition of a Polaroid turns into inevitable. Regardless that I exploit them much less and fewer, they nonetheless maintain a spot in my coronary heart and residence.
Nikon 50mm f/1.8 collection E – that is the one lens I exploit for a number of causes. First, with my fixed again ache, I’d slightly not have too many lenses in my bag.
Secondly, as I used to be initially skilled to be a portrait photographer, I used to be used to 50mm or 85mm lenses and will finest work with them.
I additionally personal a zoom lens however don’t like how my laziness takes over me, and I stay too static. It’s far more enjoyable when you must do a couple of steps to get nearer to the item.
Hersmay CY-20 RSY-AE051 Sizzling Shoe Flash – I not often use a flash, and this one is gentle and suitable with my major digicam. Up to now, I’ve nothing else to say about it besides that I nonetheless favor pure gentle.
ONEgenug Vianber Bag – I’ve lengthy refused to put on any digicam bag. In any case, I often left the home with one digicam, a lens, a light-weight meter, and… properly, that’s kind of it.
Nevertheless, as my work grew to become increasingly complicated, I needed to buy a bag, and this one is a classic bag for a classic photographer.
Sure, you bought it proper. I solely purchased it for its retro look.
Now’s the time to say that I used to work as a photograph editor for tv, particularly for a information channel, the place I primarily labored with Photoshop and honed my abilities with this system.
Nevertheless, I attempt to edit as little as doable in my present pictures. I favor to set my digicam(s) appropriately and spend much less time modifying.
I additionally discovered to make use of Lightroom for iPad, and actually, I haven’t had any desktop Adobe software program for over a 12 months, not even a laptop computer or pc.
The iOS model of Lightroom is sufficient for my minimal modifying wants.
Werralux Mild Meter – one chill Sunday morning, my dearest and I went to a market at Boxhagener Platz in Berlin-Friedrichshain. As quickly as she noticed me crying with happiness upon discovering a classic “posemètre” (a light-weight meter in English), she couldn’t resist and acquired it for me.
Not that I exploit it a lot, however I all the time have it with me. It’s a reminder that pictures may be completed with out fixed charging and altering batteries.
I discover {that a} notepad and pen are one thing I can’t dwell with out. You say, “However you’ve gotten notes in your iPhone, proper?” And also you’re proper.
Nevertheless, in some way, I favor taking notes within the old school manner, and I encourage all photographers to do the identical as Helmut Newton did. As soon as I’ve an concept for an image or one thing I wish to develop later, I write it down.
In the event you’ve learn this far, let me congratulate you with a stunned face.
These are a number of phrases for somebody who calls himself a minimalist!
Thanks for becoming a member of me on this reflection on pictures gear.
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