Pavel P.

About finding a place for photography on the Internet. I don’t have this point solved and this kind of doesn’t make me happy. Unsolved issue is never good. I am continually posting on daily basis to following sites: Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Wordpress and on a Instagram. Also need to mention my static web page on Jimdo. It’s about a disability to select only one platform. Historically, for me it all started with Flickr, so that’s why I have bonds to this platform. I have some people over there and connections I made there during the years. It was always a place number one for my photos. And it still a place where all my public photos start it’s digital journey. Later on I started adding photos to Tumblr blogging platform. I have not many personal bonds to it. It is least social place compared to other mentions sites, but it was always easy to place to share and expose photos to the eyes of other people. Banska Stavnica, Slovakia, July 2016 And than I establis...

It’s been some time since my last real blog post with written text. Last two weeks I have been only posting photos. They were uploaded to Flickr and than pushed via  IFTT web tool to my other accounts – WP, FB, Twitter and Tumblr. And I don’t think it is the best way to do. It is a bad way to do … So I turned this IFTT robot off. All right. Coffee break, sorry…. Ok, back here. What I wanted to say? So, I re-directed the publishing concept. I missed this writing. It was first ok, but than I realized I am missing something but didn’t know what it was. So, this is it. Want to continue sharing my thoughts, if I have something to say. So this is one thing. Hodonovice, June 2016 Second thing is my BOOK. It is complicated. First I was thinking about making a book for about 4 months, but it didn’t take me anywhere. Than I completed a selection of photos. Than I deleted everything and started all over. I asked for help, but I got lost along the way. So I deleted everything ag...

Writing had become a habit for me. It helps me to move forward. I found out that I tend to make my photos look artistic. Or stylish. That’s bad. It is only putting a stylish jacket on. There is nothing wrong about wearing a stylish jacket. Stylish jacket can help me look better. But it could also hide something. It hides myself. Short post with heavy thoughts…. Kojetin, June 2016 Frydek-Mistek, June 2016 P.

I don’t have my own style. Really. I only stylize my photos. Dictionary: stylize verb (used with object), stylized, stylizing. to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize. I stylize my photos so they look in a certain style. I make them black and white. With heavy contrast and lots of grain. I do it because I like to see my photos this way. I like this style. I see this stylization in two steps: in shooting in post processing Hard to accept it. Let me show you some stylized photos I like a lot: Ostrava, July 2016 It looks kind of artistic. It should evoke emotions – dark person stepping into the light…mood. Rather dark and disturbing. Ostrava, July 2016 And this photo…isn’t it just cheap use of reflections and high contrast? Just to create aesthetically interesting photo? I am afraid so. Need to say again. I love the look of these photos. Does these two photos hold more value com...

These are thoughts I had after the discussios we had on Flickr. The topic was where photography is and where it is aiming. I thought I will reply on my blog. I think there are many ways how to look at photography. After all I think author or photographer must stay truthful to self. I don´t know if the quality in general went down. I see it from the opposite side. More people are photographing, more good stuff. I was trying to analyze what I do. My photos. For example these three photos in today’s post. I made them and I like them. I like black and white. I like aesthetics of street photography. So that’s why I do that. Frydlant nad Ostravici,, June 2016  Frydlant nad Ostravici, Czech Republic, 6/2016 The photo above. Some man, somewhere, walking. Dramatic look due to post process. Film feel. Strange expression of the man. I snapped it from the hip. I like the look and feel of the photo. Frydlant nad Ostravici, June 2016  Frydlant nad Ostravici, Czech R...

Ok. There is this question. About street. It is not a question. It is a fact. I think street photography is a fashion. A trendy thing. It become cool and it become mainstream. It has it’s aesthetics, it has a smell, pace, life and so on. Nothing wrong about it. Nothing wrong about mainstream. The problem I see is making a photo to make a photo. Sounds weird. I will try to explain better. Ostrava, Svinov, June 2016  To make street photo. So people see this cool and awesome street shots other people are doing. It is my personal experience. So they see and think. Hm, I like that, I want to do street too. So they (me and others) march in the streets, they practice, they get better, they make cool photos that fulfill aesthetics of street photography. Their photos looks awesome. Just awesome. They are proud of themselves. Ostrava, June 2016 But they just want to fulfill a certain aesthetics. Achieve certain look, certain feel and mood. They want to join the crowed o...

You must think, that I just arrived on planet Earth from the outer space. Or, after reading this episode you will. It’s been three years since I stopped using viewfinder. Totally. It was July 2013 when I started to frame photos using LCD screen only. I had benefited from that and composition of my photos got better immediately… But… I am again trying, shifting , challenging myself, pushing myself out of stereotype  thinking, re-evaluating…. Soooo, on yesterday’s session with me and my camera Olympus OM-D E-M10 I turned LCD screen off. First impression (note, I used viewfinders for 10 years before). Confussion. I had to put my eye towards the little glass tunnel. My nose touching the screen. Looking like through the little submarine periscope. Through the peephole. How new to me. How unusual feel. Three years, really, I had been shooting daily only on LCD….! Ostrava, June 2016 Second impression. I felt connected with the world behind the lens by that...