About lrargerich / Luis Argerich  

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect [Vincent Versace]

Hi there! [Updated September 2009]

I'm an amateur photographer from Buenos Aires, Argentina mostly interested in Landscape photography and panoramas. I use open source software and make all my stuff public.

I'm a positivist photographer, I try to avoid sad images. People are very rare in most of my pictures except of my family or special situations. I consider people as moving things that ruin my landscapes :)

Where to Start?

I have a lot of pics in flickr. Maybe you want to start here since they are ordered by interestingness so I guess the good ones are first... who knows? (click on the image thumbs below)


I'm an admin of the Luminous Landscapes group.

The Most Interesting Pic in My Stream so Far Is:


Eyes do More than See


Interestingness Watch:

25 Most Interesting photos
Flickr Explore photos

My stuff:

Canon 40D; Canon XTI 400D (backup camera)
Tamron 17-50 f/2.8
Canon 60mm EF-S f/2.8 macro
Canon 50mm f/1.8 & Canon 85mm f/1.8
Canon 70-200 f/4 L + TC Kenko 1.4
Sigma 10mm Fisheye 2.8
Canon 28mm 2.8
Arax MC T-S 80mm (tilt & shift)

Manfrotto Tripod 055: 728B
Several filters (most used ND400, R72IR, 830nmIR, ND8, GND, etc)

Software I use
I only use free software so you can just go and download these and experiment too.

Gimp (photo editing chief executive)
Hugin (for panoramics and perspective correction)
Enfuse Gui (to blend exposures)
NoiseWare community edition (Noise reduction)
UFRaw (Raw Processing)
QTPfsgui (HDR)
Registax / DeepSkyStacker
CombineZM

I also use several Gimp plugins and I wrote a couple of Gimp scripts myself.

Techniques I'm interested (mostly)
(Links to my sets experimenting with them)

Landscapes:HDR; Daytime long exposures;Panoramas;Infrared Photography

And more....
Among other experiments I've been also playing with:
Tilt & Shift Miniature Fakes, 360x180 equirectangular panoramas, Macros,Stereographic Projections & little planets,Droste Effect,Harris Shutter Effect,Vertoramas,Cinematic Pictures,Double Exposures,Split Toned Images,Dyptychs and sequences,HDTR Images,Recursive Projections and Fractals

Contacting Me

Thanks for visiting my profile!
If you have questions or something to say I'm usually fast to answer mail or flickrmail.

Flickr DNA!








Twitter: twitter.com/lrargerich