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I started taking pictures more seriously at the age of twelve with an Asahi Pentax K1000 (still working!) which belonged to my mother, but I never developed my techniques enough - in part due to the normal lack of discipline teenagers tend to have (e.g., I would have never thought of writing down the settings of each photo on a notebook to know what I was doing wrong or right afterwards), but also due to the lack of information (remember: no internet or google back then!), and of course because of the massive cost that film photography had, especially for a teenager. And who can forget the eternity between that faithful shutter “click” and having the results in your hands?
In 2002, with the (r)evolution of digital photography, the little photography bug started appearing in me again. I still remember one of my best friends saying at the time that we were still many years away from the moment digital photography could compete in terms of quality with film photography…. Who would have imagined that barely four years later in 2006 that Canon, Nikon, and even old traditional Kodak would have stopped production of most models of film cameras in every segment?
Digital photography has many advantages over film photography - besides the question of cost (you pay the same to take one or one thousand photos), edition and quality printing are possible on the most basic of home computers/printers sold today. There’s also the instantaneous transition between the “click” and seeing the results (and if you got it wrong, having the possibility of being able to repeat the same photo with the right settings), and the amazing fact that with each image file, all the settings (speed, aperture, white balance, ISO, etc.) are recorded digitally with the photo. Being your own teacher has become so many orders of magnitude easier.
For me, photography has many functions:
- Helps us preserve memories - who doesn’t like to see the pictures of our parents and grandparents before we were born, with the different fashions, cars, houses, everything!
- Brings to our eyes what is far away, be it someone in your family or some faraway exotic land.
- Makes it possible with long exposures and high speed photography to see what is too dark, slow, bright, or fast.
- It sells! It creates the allure for all kind of products, even before you see them with your own eyes.
- And last but not least, it can have artistic intentions, either by creating certain aesthetics, or by capturing and transmitting emotions.
These are all the reasons why I like to be an apprentice of photography, I hope you enjoy the results!
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Photos of Pedro Moura Pinheiro (97)
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- Alcohol as still life 29,132 photos, 5,184 members
- Fireworks 61,807 photos, 17,020 members
- Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM 873 photos, 277 members
- Contre-Plongée Totale avec échappée. 66 photos, 36 members
- LumiQuest 653 photos, 773 members
- Your Best Shot 2011 14,012 photos, 16,477 members
- Floating People 3,419 photos, 1,273 members
- Parkour 5,261 photos, 1,323 members
- CAR [directory] 車 305,307 photos, 13,904 members
- Mercedes Benz 21,554 photos, 3,275 members
- Car-photographer's digest 4,371 photos, 5,230 members
- Bridges and Tunnels 121,799 photos, 15,271 members
- Time Lapse Videos 4,951 photos, 2,217 members
- pebble balancing 2,785 photos, 483 members
- Wallpeople Official 146 photos, 100 members
- Black and White Film Photography (bwfp) 55,982 photos, 2,509 members
- Astronomy Photos 4,495 photos, 498 members
- Digital Infrared 63,349 photos, 6,684 members
- 120 334,303 photos, 11,134 members
- Analogue Photos of Vintage Cars 7,765 photos, 374 members
- Fuji Medium Format Cameras 9,491 photos, 1,119 members
- I Shoot Film 1,766,406 photos, 69,722 members
- Astronomy 35,494 photos, 6,555 members
- Astrophotography 45,586 photos, 7,871 members
- Through the Viewfinder 57,620 photos, 6,910 members
- Apple Users 4,150 photos, 508 members
- MacSetups 1,287 photos, 576 members
- Your Desk 679 photos, 336 members
- Apple Inc. 5,697 photos, 1,149 members
- Mac Setups 1,732 photos, 775 members
- My Desk 6,084 photos, 4,132 members
- Cult of Mac 26,079 photos, 5,373 members
- Mac Addicts 31,460 photos, 7,932 members
- Pentax 67 (6x7, 67, 67II) 22,559 photos, 2,032 members
- Canon EOS 60D Owners 66,328 photos, 3,044 members
- ontheplane magazine submissions 2,195 photos, 178 members
- Macintosh 57,636 photos, 18,430 members
- Airbus 62,218 photos, 1,488 members
- Cloudporn 87,442 photos, 11,024 members
- Airplanes and Airports 255,605 photos, 8,274 members
- DOZE mag. Issue*5 VISIONÄR [CLOSED] 715 photos, 863 members
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- Portra 80,782 photos, 5,097 members
- Pentax K-1000 users and lovers (k1000) 48,062 photos, 3,203 members
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Testimonials (4)
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Luis_Amaral says:
"I have known Pedro for a long time, maybe about 2/3 of my life. I have always appreciated his true friendship and willingness to help in every situation. In photography, we have shared a lot of information and advice, and I might have influenced him a little bit in the beggining, mostly on general photography theory. Since then, he has evolved much more than me and these days it's the other way around.
I can say that I find Pedro dominates the technique and the equipment very well and he is very careful about all the details in a shot. He also masters post processing techniques which of course are part of the photographers workflow; the work of a photographer does not end with pressing the shutter release button and recording the image.
Thank you Pedro for your friendship and advice, your pictures are a source of inspiration and I think you are creative by nature, so you have a long path of evolution to go through to make your work better and better everyday. I think at some point in time you will make a living of this too!"31st May, 2008
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Redfishingboat.com says:
"I don't know Pedro that well, but he's really friendly and funny. And when I think about throwing my camera away into the deep blue ocean to never take another photograph -- his unique compositions have made me want to keep trying to reach that place! That's a good thing."
5th May, 2008
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Rumboaningures says:
"I have never written any testimony before, but right now I was looking at Pedro's stream and I felt the imperative necessity of writing this. It is very easy to realise Pedro is a great person and he is always there to help you and to let you learn from him, so it has been a blessing to meet him. Besides that, he is a great photographer. That's why I am always expecting his new shots so eagerly, as he loves so much experimenting and creating a new way of perceiving photography. Through his work and trials, he is not the only one who learns, but also his viewers so, please don't forget to keep your eyes wide open!!"
13th April, 2008
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txkimmers says:
"Starting with the advice that "one doesn't buy a camera, one buys a lens", Pedro has taught me a lot about photography since I met him. And, since his photos are quite good, I have vested him with all kinds of authority. When he gives me advice, I listen. You should too."
10th March, 2008
- Name:
- Pedro Moura Pinheiro
- Joined:
- May 2005
- Currently:
- Lisboa, Portugal
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Website:
- matsu - japanese for pine tree
- Email:
- pedro.pinheiro [at] gmail.com