Per Foreby's photostream  

About me
I'm born in 1960, and live in Lund, a city in the south of Sweden. I work as a system manager/web developer/programmer at Lund University. For more info, look me up

- at home
- at work
- at Google+
- at facebook
- at LinkedIn

When it comes to photography, my interest was born when I was about 10 years old. I signed up for a photo course where I learned the basic photography and darkroom techniques. After that I got myself a now classic compact camera, the KonicaC35, which I used during my teens, shooting mostly slide film. In the mid 80's I worked as a journalist at a student magazine (Lundagård) and at one of Sweden's larger newspapers (Sydsvenskan). Being around press photographers awakened my interest in SLRs, and I got myself a second-hand Olympus OM-1n. After a few years my interest dropped to the snapshot level, but was awakened again with the digital era.

Current toys
Canon Powershot S95
Panasonic Lumix GF2
Panasonic Lumix G 14/2.5 Asph.
Nikon D300
Nikon D700
MB-D10 grip
Nikon 50mm AF f/1.4D
Nikon AF-S 70-300mm VR
Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro 1:1
Sigma AF 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM
Nikon SB-800 flash
Manfrotto 055 XPRO B tripod
Manfrotto 488RC2 ball head
LowePro Nova 4 camera bag
Dörr Adventure L tripod bag

Software
I do all my work in linux (Debian). I use Bibble and it's successor AfterShot Pro to process raw files, Noice Ninja to deal with high ISO noice, and Gimp to do additional editing.

I do not believe that editing is cheating, it's just an easier way to do what photographers always have done in the darkroom before the digital era.

I like
Vivid color, close-up portraits, minimalism ("less is more"), the unexpected.

Quotes
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see. -Ernst Haas

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! -Ted Grant

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. -Unknown

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. -Unknown

Finally, this one exists in two different versions with totally different people involved. Don't know if any of them are true:

1.
When Jack London had his portrait made by the noted San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe, London began the encounter with effusive praise for the photographic art of his friend and fellow bohemian, Genthe. You must have a wonderful camera...It must be the best camera in the world...You must show me your camera. Genthe then used his standard studio camera to make what has since become a classic picture of Jack London. When the sitting was finished, Genthe could not contain himself: I have read your books, Jack, and I think they are important works of art. You must have a wonderful typewriter.

2.
Ernest Hemingway: "Good pictures, what camera do you use?"
Irving Penn: "What typewriter do you use?"




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