Hi! I'm Adam!
I'm a fine art
photographer
What I love about fine art photography is that I can depict a scene as I see it, completely free of dogma and rules. I love to create photos that seem to be from a dark and diffuse dream. In fine art photography, I am free to compose a photo as I have seen it in my mind's eye. The basis of such a work is always a photo that I have taken, preferably in a misty landscape. I alter this photo through analogue or digital filters in such a way that I depict a scene that seems to have emerged from a dark dream. From Vaseline on the lens to reflections or digital filters - the only limit in fine art photography is your own imagination.
Photographing modern architecture is something I haven't mastered for that long. In the meantime, I know the tricks of the great photos that show modern buildings in a spectacular way in fineart style. Photos that motivate the viewer to marvel and pause. It's not just about photographing the building. It is more about perspective, shading and above all: spectacular shapes! In order to have a unique selling point in such photos, I try to get extreme perspectives on such buildings. Often I have to contort myself to do this and may have a painful neck the next day. But if the result is a great photo, it's always worth the effort!
In street photography, photographers talk about the "decisive moment". It is about capturing the unique moment. An unstaged situation on the street that has never existed before and will never exist again. That's what excites me about street photography: capturing a unique moment for eternity. This genre of photography is not new. Already at the end of the 19th century, photographers started to capture life in the streets. Over time, great works have been created by legendary artists such as Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson or Vivian Maier.
Is black-and-white photography the royal class of photography? Perhaps. I do not believe it. For me it is more a question of taste. I know many fantastic photographers who don't shoot in black and white. But for me it was clear at some point that I am much more comfortable with desaturated photos than with colourful photos. I like the gloomy and dark. Low key photos with a lot of contrast, that's exactly my thing. And there's something timeless about taking photos in black and white. It's a different way of photographing. Simply desaturating in Photoshop is not enough. Black and white only works if you pay attention to contrasts when you're photographing. And you should also somehow get to grips with negative space.
Sometimes I get bored with just taking a street photo. Then I start doing weird things to make everything a bit more exciting and unpredictable. Either I grab one of my old Minolta cameras and shoot everything with expired 35mm film. Or I take a shot of Vaseline and slap it on the lens. Of course, I screwed an obscure Trikolor filter on it beforehand, which I bought at a flea market. Or I set the shutter to 1/15 and just see what comes out. And if that's not enough, I add another filter in Photoshop. Sometimes I even do it all together. Every now and then I even get a pretty good photo out of it.
Those who have made it this far should get a small reward: Photos in Colour. Every now and then it's nice not to completely desaturate the photo. I do this much less often than in my early days as a photographer, but it does make for some nice photos. I take most colour pictures when I'm on holiday somewhere and I can combine a beautiful motif with a dramatic sunset. Here is a small selection from Denmark, Bavaria, Holland and a few older photos from the region where I live.
Support Me
If you would like to support my and my work it would be nice if you'd buy me something from my amazon wishlist. I am a collector of vinyl records and i can use a gifted longplay way more then a monetary donation.