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Lake Saint Ann
Travel

Lake Saint Ana

Posted on 27th May 2018 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

The only volcanic lake in Romania, Saint Ana is located in Harghita, 80km from Brasov and can be accessed from DN12 road but my recommendation is the more sceni...

scanning color negatives
Photography/Useful for you

How to get consistent scans from color negative film

Posted on 8th April 2016 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

Color negative film is said to have this magic neutrality and consistent skin tones but where are they? Every time I send my negs to the lab I got all kinds of ...

Nacreous clouds in Birmingham
Photography

Did the northern lights appear in Birmingham?

Posted on 1st February 2016 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

Looking out my window this afternoon I had a small shock. I was seeing “bright lights in the sky” but not of aliens but something that looked like t...

Insights/Photography

Going mobile

Posted on 28th September 2015 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

This is the first blogpost from my phone. I love technology and how easy it’s making everything. I just wish I had more time for it but I’m hard at ...

Photography

Night photography part II

Posted on 24th December 2012 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

10 minutes ago, I just shot almost an entire roll of film on the moon. Using the moon and nighttime calculator, I was able to catch the moon just as it was risi...

Photography

The Genius of Moving Image Part III

Posted on 28th March 2012 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

This last part of ITAP consisted in the music videos “Only you” by Portishead and “All is full of love” by Bjork, both the work of director Chris Cunningham.

Photography

The Genius of Moving Image Part I

Posted on 28th March 2012 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

For this series of documentaries we had several videos and films. This one is  documentary of filmmaker Sam Taylor Wood.

Photography

The Genius of Moving Image Part II

Posted on 28th March 2012 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

The second part of the genius of moving image is from a documentary film called  “Visions Of Light, The Art Of Cinematography” by Arnold Glassman.

Photography

Another one bites the dust…

Posted on 27th March 2012 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

…actually three. Kodak has announced the discontinuation of three of it’s slide films: Ektachrome E100G, E100VS and ELITE Chrome Extra Color. http://www.kodak.c...

Photography

The Genius of Photography Part II

Posted on 26th March 2012 by Ion Mates / 0 Comment

T1: What are Typologies? Typologies are systematic accurate records of people and things.   T2: What was the “Face of the times”? The “Face of the times” w...

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