Being a filmmaker and working in TV and entertainment industry, photography helps to improve my visual craft and to stay attentive.

36 more singular thermodynamic states: Portrait, Street, snapshots.
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© Janosch Orlowsky
A while ago I was asked why I love black and white that much.

It's easy to walk the streets with a long lens and pick details looking like pack shots.
Long focal lengths help reducing information by a tight frame.

This includes reducing color information to achieve very graphic images - in color.

A 135mm might be a perfect art director's tool...
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X-ing
2016
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Construction Light
2016
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Rear Light detail
2016
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Digi Super 86 II
2016
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Type 991
2016
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Pigeon
2016
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Lotti in Trenchcoat
2016
To achieve similar results with much shorter lenses, you need to get pretty close - or the scenery needs to be much bigger.
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Ventilator
2016
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Spinning Wheel
2016
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Here comes the sun
2016
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Ocean pulls me close
2016
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Angel Wings
2016
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Smoking
2016
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Nightsky
2016
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Brik
2016
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33/45
2016
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Ceiling Lights
2016
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Alien Lights
2016
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Heat Up
2016
Besides having a good eye, to achieve good photographs you need to master time.

Mastering time means being attentive, anticipating, knowing the craft and be there right on spot.


Shooting static situations, landscapes or dead objects is less challenging (to me).

You might need to wait for the right light or pick an interesting angle / perspective.

But it's a little bit like shooting a sitting duck.


A building, a landscape or a dead object can't run away, it changes less than a human in motion.

Density of (visible) pulses is far inferior to human life.

Therefore it is less challenging to get amazing images of (rather) static things.
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Marathon
2016
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Bring me some water
2016
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Ultra high performance Startup CEO
2016
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Tequila
2016
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Boy, Girl and Schwalbe
2016
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Ahead
2016
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BAB 2 Roadside
2016
Taking color from an image elevates specific moments.

Photography has its roots in Black and White.

Godard refers to this in "Histoire(s) du cinema" as being the ultimate contrast between light and dark, life and death.

Besides cultural imprinting, this might be a reason why we appreciate Black and White photography as a truthful way to freeze time.
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By the sea
2016
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Jacobo Sucari and Actor friend
2016
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Annika Laughing
2016
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Candlelight Profile
2016
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Didier
2016
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Woman with walking aid passing
2016
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Josh smoking
2016
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Armando
2016
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Street artists
2016
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Do the Dont's
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