superiphi's photostream  

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I'm originally from Switzerland, living in the UK - currently between jobs and looking for the next thing to tickle me - might be anywhere in a month...

I have too much curiosity and too much imagination and a camera in hand helps with both.

I'm nothing special, but I enjoy it :) I tend to take the picture a little too fast, when 10 seconds thinking would have made a better picture. This is especially the case for the pictures taken on my daily walks with the pocket camera. I am trying to slow myself down so I can improve some more :)

I have recently acquired a dog. Pippi Longstocking is a portuguese water dog which used to belong to my friend Lene. When she couldnt keep pippi we went all the way to Denmark and took her home with us - driving from Denmark to Calais and then up to Leeds again. The big question now is how to take pictures of a black dog!

My photos are usually lightly post-processed in ACDSee - I wish I could justify the cost of photoshop, especially since I have training in using it, but the price is ridiculous. ACDSee does a pretty good job and very quickly, so I am sticking with it.

I am trying to take photos each day as part of blipfoto.com (see www.blipfoto.com/iphigenie) and as a result i have started to take a lot more pictures, including my bowl of popcorn or the neighbour's laundry, just to snap a nice image each day

Comments are all welcome, including criticism (as in what could have been better, not "you're rubbish" please :D)

Note: As much as I love comments I tend not to participate in groups that demand people leave comments, as I have noticed (on other people's images, mine are nowhere that popular) that it can pollute a stream with unpersonal cut-and-past comments and flood out the real personal comments. I make some exceptions when the group is perfect for the image or very interesting, but i apologise in advance to those i might refuse.

License: I have put all my textures as Creative Commons, as I think these are the most likely to be useful to someone doing something else. Please do respect the attribution request with a link to here or my website, and let me know what you used them for, I would be really tickled to know where my textures might end!
Other images are still full (c) to me, do not use them without first asking me

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Je n'ai aucune pretension photo, je prends des photos ok, mais souvent elles pouraient etre tellement mieux... souvent si je reflechissais 2 minutes de plus! Mais j'ai tellement de plaisir photo alors voila.

Je me rend bien compte que souvent (surtout avec le petit fuji) je prend la photo trop vite. Parfois je recommence, mais parfois pas. C'est comme si avec le petit je fais de l'impulsif, tranche de vie. Avec le reflex je reflechis un peu plus, mais parfois pas non plus. Et ca se voit sur les photos. Alors un peu de critique c'est bien.

Quand aux vieilles photos, ah si je pouvais expliquer a l'ado que j'etais comment mettre au point proprement... (je n'ai compris le frenel que plus tard, et comme je suis un peu myope, bon...) et plusieurs autres choses que j'ai apprise les annees suivantes... Mais je trouvais interessant de les mettre quand meme, parce que ce sont me premiers grands souvenirs photo. Avant d'avoir mon canon j'avais un de ces petits kodak brique a cassette, que j'utilisais enormement mais je voulais plus. Alors vers 12 ans j'ai commence a economiser, presque 2 ans!!! et j'ai choisi le canon A1 et quelle revelation. quel plaisir :D

Flickr c'est un peu de l'auto indulgence...

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My cameras:
Pentax MZ-M
Samsumg GX10
Fuji F47D
+ some film rangefinders older than myself that still work