Just how power have the shots that the PowerShot shoots?

The battery of the built-in flash of my Canon Powershot A 200 doesn't work and for that reason I've shot always without flash (the lens has a f-stop of 2.8).

Today I had the idea to use the Metz mecablitz 20BC6 with the PowerShot. But this little point&shoot camera doesn't have a HotShoe and of course no PC-port. But it doesn't matter, because you can fire the mecablitz manually.

For a more professional look I put the camera and the flash on the Porst Flashbar:



Without the flash-battery you can only photograph in the without flash mode and the manual settings of the PowerShot A200 are very limited.

With the mecablitz the pictures are certainly overexposed, but you can certainly modify the pictures with Photoshop.

Without flash:


With flash:


After Photoshop CS (selective color, curves and shadow/highlight):



Without flash:


With flash:


After Photoshop CS (selective color, curves and shadow/highlight):

" A technically perfect photograph can be...

...the world’s most boring picture."

Andreas Feininger

"farbfotolehre", brasil, 2010

"When you photograph people in colour ...

...you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!"

Ted Grant




"just a walking girl mk1/mk2/mk3", brasil, 2010

"A film is never really good...

...unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
Orson Welles


"camera eyes", brasil, 2010

"I want to question the images that are in our memory. ...

...There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true."

Carl De Keyzer


"slow silence reloaded", brasil, 2010

Link at collageart.org‏ !

Today I've got a mail from Jonathan Talbot who is the man behind collageart.org, that he linked my blog!

He has written about me: "Fabricio Schmidt calls himself a photo artist. His repertoire includes a considerable amount of collage. His works make it clear that photocollage is not necessarily photomontage."

Ohohohohohoh I'm extraordinarily lucky and happy!!! THANKS!

The page is a magnificent treasure chest of collage art!

Take a good look at collageart.org and enjoy it!

Oldschool!

Today I've digitalized the school class photo of my german great grandmother.
She was born in 1900 in Ohligs, which is today a borough of Solingen.
Because of the date of birth I think that the picture is more or less from 1910.
But I don't know which of the kids is my great grandmother:(

I love the border around the picture! Oh, this is pure unadulterated kitsch:))

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. ...

... The more it tells you the less you know."
Diane Arbus


"lone orchid 1+4", brasil, 2010

"A good snapshot stops...

...a moment from running away."

Eudora Welty


"mister nice guy", brasil, 2009

"Photography is still instinctual,...

...but I am more disciplined now. I am trying to make every frame count, just as in Tai Chi every breath counts."

Chien-Chi Chang


"shadow play", germany, 2005