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The Littoral Series : Introduction and Lady of the Ferry
Mid-August and Paris is half empty as most Parisians have headed to the beach. So this is the perfect timing for a new summer series, similar to last year’s « Countryside series ». This year I enrolled...
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The Littoral Series II : On engagement – Pétanque at Beauduc
(reportage course feedback – continues from previous post) On the first shoot, we were basically dropped on a remote beach occupied by campers and their caravans in a hippie type of atmosphere. The...
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The Littoral Series III : On gear – The gypsy campers
While planning for the course, I had decided to bring along only two lenses for my M9, that is a 35mm and a 60mm. That turned out to be a wise choice since Eric asked students not to use any zooms, so...
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The Littoral Series IV : On cropping – Marseille harbour kids
(continues) As I mentioned in an earlier post, no post processing was allowed during the course. Each evening we would turn in our memory cards (or film) with 50 pictures that would be printed in 10 x...
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The Littoral Series V : On consistency of look – The fisherman and the kid
After the first two sessions of edition, it became clear that some of us had a hard time getting a consistent look to their pictures. A fellow student had mixed B&W with color pictures and another...
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The Littoral Series VI : On post processing – Miss Gloria
As I mentioned before, we were not allowed to post process during the week. All printed files were JPEG’s straight out of the cameras. Yet I decided to process them to post in order to retain the look...
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The Littoral Series VII : On light – The fisherman harbour
(a new post on a reportage course I took in Southern France, post # I provides an introduction to the series) In August in France, the best hours to take pictures is approximately from 7 to 10h and 17...
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The Littoral Series VIII : On patience – Pierrot & Friends
After taking pictures at Gloria Beach in Port Saint-Louis for an hour, I decided to head for a straw roofed bar (the famous « Paillotte », more often illegal then not) located by the beach. As I sat...
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The Littoral Series IX : On deleting – Sunrise & Sunset
One important point throughout the course was that we were asked not to delete any pictures we had taken (here again, I admit that I did not fully respect this rule). Eric even expected us not to look...
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The Littoral Series X : The final cut – 12 Hours
Time to end this series and show you the final cut of a full week of reportage shooting. On the last day of the course, each of us laid on a table the 300 pictures he had taken during the week to build...
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