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Gauranga

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  • Apr 11
  • Serbia
  • Deviant for 12 years
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My Bio
Journalist and amateur photographer.

Favourite Visual Artist
Henri Cartier Bresson
Favourite Movies
Barry Lyndon
Favourite TV Shows
TBBT
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Buxtehude, Vivaldi, Purcell, Handel, Sonny Boy Williamson, Therion, Tiamat, Grateful Dead...
Favourite Books
Tropic of Cancer, Lord of the Rings, Iluminati!...whatever.
Favourite Writers
Dostoyevski, Tolkien, Robert Anton Wilson, Rabelais, Henri Miller...
Tools of the Trade
Keyboard
Other Interests
Religious affiliations of all kinds, spirit and soul, cooking, wine and hard booze
My newest rig enables me to work without focusing, which is a good thing in street photography. Primary lens is Nikkor Auto 50mm / 1.4, manual wonder from the sixties. Front is scratched to the point of loss of contrast, and light related problems of all kinds. I use it anyway.   Secondary lens is Hama 0.5 wide converter. I had to use duct tape to attach wide converter to UV filter in order to attach it to 50mm, because Hama`s 52mm is more like 50mm - just won't fit. The whole rig looks horrendous, very massive. Now, many people will tell that wide converters are basically paper weights sold as auxiliary lens, and that is true t
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I will try to sum up some of my experience as a long overdue amateur photographer, who only recently took to the streets. I see myself as poor man's Henri Cartier-Bresson, but without experience, proper equipment, dedication and personal style. Nevertheless, this is what i have found out. 1. People are like animals. They do not mind the intrusion of the photographer, as long as you keep your calm, do not make a fuss of what are you doing and not stick your lens in their faces. Poor people are less aggressive than rich people, and rich people are less aggressive than people who work for rich people. 2. Bums are easily subdued with alcohol.
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Pozdrav! :) Idem da ti pogledam galeriju a ti obidji ovu grupu:
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Prikljuci se, vidi koga jos ima i okaci neki rad :D
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