Vienna - Semantic Flood
Never take yourself too serious!
After 4 months of playing around with my Sony Alpha 6400 in 2021, I decided I really want to continue on this path and I was attracted in particular to photographing concerts, events and people.
This happened right between the lockdowns of the pandemic. A very bad time to begin a career in photography, right?
I was shooting underground parties and concerts during the covid and during the limited hours when bars were open and open mics events, where I was participating as well, playing my new singles.
So in September 2022 I decided to purchase another system that gives me the flexibility and the performance to jump as fast as possible in the Fashion Industry (if possible) and Concert photography. There was no time to fuss, no middle ground and I was running out of time, since architecture offices were very unreliable, some of them even closed down making me losing trust in this field.
I’ve decided eventually to jump on the GFX system from Fujifilm, because it represents a breakthrough in photography, allowing us to use a medium format sensor in a very flexible environment. I’ve also decided that I will not shoot sports or fast action, the Autofocus of the GFX system being enough for what I wanted to achieve.
Nevertheless shooting concerts with this system is a challenge and I came a long way to realize this will not be my main type of photography, but I want to shoot concerts anyway.
I’ve never really set myself for doing street photography, all the photos done by now being taken on the way actually.
This was the first time when I was thinking to create a set of colour grading presets that represent my vision, most of them bases on the Fujifilm profile Nostalgic Negative. One year later, I’m still working on it, because they would have to accomplish the same vibe on different situations preserving the natural skin colours. There will be 10 Presets in this pack.
This preset is called Semantic Flood.
My first photo was done with the GF 250mm f/4.0 on rain at the blue hour (the sky was grey in fact) when the lights of the city turned on.
What’s the meaning of love? Why do we need it? Why are we running at the edge of the universe in the attempt to find it, if we don’t really know how to describe it?
Is knowing how to ask a question more important than knowing the answer? Will we ever find the answers?
Most certainly “if we think we know all the answers, we haven’t asked all the questions” (Confucius)
Sometimes I feel the energy of the city surrounding me, the harmonical balance of light falling down on the canvas on which every soul guides its path like a fresh ink waiting to dry out and leave a perpetuum mark in time.
In this bath of feelings and colours I’m staying still for a moment. I’m taking it all in and let it dry for a second, give it a chance to carve its mark on my memory, registering every pixel of it into my digital camera.
“This moment is marked and there will be no other like it” I imagine. But was I enable to encompass every drip of essence from it? Was I able to paint the vibe I was feeling, instead just taking a picture of it?
Was I able to feel the love of it?
The colour grading preset pack will come out when it’s done.