Street Photography in Territorio Abaucan

Street photography or street photography is photography that sincerely captures the human essence in relation to the urban environment.

What happens when we leave the City, call it Buenos Aires, Zaragoza or New York.

In the Abaucán Territory, streets become trails, environment in landscapes.

Is it correct to call it street photography then?

Or would these photos fall into the Portrait category?

Be that as it may, the intention is that the photographer does not participate in the scene, not intervene with his photographic equipment, so that the observer feels like a witness to the framing and the action offered by the image.

I propose these two essays part street photography, portrait and essay that are antecedents of Gentes del Abaucán

• ESCUELAS: a panoramic portrait of rural schools made for the Government of Aragon in 2007. I had the pleasure of having the photographers Marta Marco and Rosane Marinho on the team.

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• TRABAJADORES: a comprehensive portrait of the labor scene in 2008, also for the Government of Aragon.

Gente del Abaucán is part of a larger photographic essay, Tierras y Gentes del Abaucán. Another is Territorio Abaucán. The thesis that unites each of the parts is that between human beings and Nature there has always been, and always will be as long as we exist, an indisputable uniqueness, humanity is one more part of it.

Nature and we are ONE.

Lightpainting at Cañón del Indio

First installment of photography tips and tricks

On the night of August 31, a moonless night, guided by Professor Manuel and Paul, we walked under the stars through the Indio Canyon. In the well-known geological formation that the caprice of waters, wind and time, carved as the faces of two Indians, we proposed to the hikers to paint their faces and stone faces with the light of their lanterns. It is an ancient technique on the rise with digital photography, it is called light painting, which in Greek, curiously, is called FotoGrafía, that is, painting with light.

The important thing for this technique is to keep the camera well supported on a tripod. In the absence of one, they are good stones. The exposure time was 2.5 seconds, the f5 aperture is a sensitivity of 800 ISO. All quite to OjíMetro 👀. Timely measuring the illumination of each flashlight and drawing the conclusions would have been very tedious for the models.

The two and a half seconds of exposure were divided into half a second to illuminate the faces, then the model-luminaires had to all turn and illuminate the rocks. The stopwatch was also intuitive.

The photograph you see is the third attempt.

It helps for these types of photographs to be able to shoot RAW files due to their wide dynamic range.

Any questions, you can leave it in the comments. I will answer you as soon as possible.

An European Community Photography Contest

Keila studies in a history bookwhere he explains the Abreu ordinances granting rights to the encomenderos over the Indians.

The European Community announces a photographic contest to illustrate “Their presence in everyday Argentine life and the socio-cultural influence of European immigrants in society are reflected in the arts in general, both in cinema, literature, music, and musical instruments. , the dances, the shows, the architecture, the traditions, the food and even the religions and language. "

Doña Martina in the ruins of the location of Watungasta

Josué in what was once the algarrobo forest of Los Nacimientos, Instataku

Doña Juana in the old cemetery of Fiambala.

Note that the following meditation is not a questioning of the selection of the contest prestigious jury. No criticism of the awards.

There is no Ying without your Yang, action without reaction.

The community that cannot pay € 6,400 in prizes cannot advertise its own contribution to Culture. That is why we make public these photos that did not win, nor did they think to win, any prize, just show another side of the same coin.

There are other realities but they are not in this one