Lumière d’Argent

A merry Christmas to all who come here regularly or not.

Stephane :: Dec.25.2007 :: Random Thoughts :: 1 Comment »

Some glimpse of hope in the Global Warming madness. The Stern report is now being comprehensively debunked in the British and US press. Carbon of Massive Disruption anyone?

Of course the Belgian and French press just repeat what they were told is in the report, no questions asked.

Global warming is exposed as a scam here, here and here.

Stephane :: Nov.06.2006 :: Random Thoughts :: No Comments »

This is called Lumière d’Argent, which is French for Silver Light. Of course I got that domain name when I was using film and since I do only B&W, this was silver film. It is probably a little awkward to keep such a name for a blog that will cover mostly digital experiences. However, there will be galleries of my previous work, done with silver and we wouldn’t be where we are without silver. So, why keep that name if only in memory of a great medium that help photographers so much?

Stephane :: Nov.06.2006 :: Random Thoughts :: No Comments »

So, OK, years after everyone I start a blog. The zillionth blog from an unknown photographer. Who will read it? Well, me, for a start. In a few months or years, I’ll probably like to read what I wrote. It will bring memories, much like when you browse through your contact sheets.

Contact sheets… the thing I’m not going to make anymore, because I just switched to a fully digital process. Until now I was using film, scanned it and from then on the process was digital. I’ve been doing that for more than three years now. Three years ago it was very clear to me that I could not get good black&white from a digital camera. I only do B&W, by the way. And digital cameras that might have been good enough were horribly expensive.

So I come from film. The path has been, Canon, Leica, Rollei and lastly Arca-Swiss 6×9. Now back to Canon with an EOS 5D. At first sight it looks like a big waste of time and resources on a gear full-circle trip. Well, not really. I did learn quite a few things and while film stagnated at its gorgeous quality level, digital went forward by leaps and now a 35mm digital is a very serious picture taking machine. The 5D is the turning point for me, because, as a landscaper coming from medium format, I expect to use prime lenses, have a choice of them, especially in wide.

This blog will document this new phase in my photography. When I’ll think of something, I’ll just add it here.

Stephane :: Nov.02.2006 :: Random Thoughts :: No Comments »