Featured photographer #29: Arthur Galvão
Short personal intro. My name is Arthur Galvão, I’m from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. I currently live in LA pursuing my childhood dream of being a filmmaker and photographer.
How did you start? I started doing photography when I was 15, when I bought my first camera in New York during family vacations. It was a Canon XTI with a 50mm 1.4 prime. Being in New York allowed me to practice street photography, something that wasn’t exactly of my liking. But in the past two years I have drifted away from the latter and I have become a much happier photographer being in contact with nature. It allows me to become one with my camera and isolate myself from the stress of Los Angeles.
What do you want to achieve? I want to achieve personal satisfaction with my work, that’s the most important to me. Getting home and being happy with the pictures I took. The greatest power of photography is freezing a moment in time, and being able to turn back to that moment or individual that was important to you.
Featured Lumu user #28: Ilán.Me
How I Started. As a child, I wanted to know how movies were made. I started with photography not by making still images, but with a home video camera. I made re-makes of my favorite movies like “Rocky,” using my turtle, dog, and whatever else was available at the time. As time went on, I felt the need to capture what was happening around me, at a faster rate. The ease of being able to capture stills with a home camera was very addictive— an addiction, I couldn’t live without.
Why I Photograph. I view every human being on this planet as a sort of biological camera, reporting back information to the collective unconscious. Once collected, that information cycles back as vibrational energy, through each and every one of us. Before anything can be analyzed, it must first be assembled and that’s where we [photographers] come into play. We select certain pieces of the puzzle and rearrange them on our films or computers, in an attempt to make sense of what we experience. Photography is about remembering who I am and why I chose to be here in the first place. It’s the perfect way to reflect on reality and draw a clear line of demarcation between the subjective and the objective.
Wedding photography on film
Sharing photo from Rifan Whyudi: “First time experience pre-wedding shoot with film.”
Gear used: Yashica Mat 124, Kodak Ektacolor 160, Lumu.
Four recommends for excelling at your analog photography endeavours:
- Buy a light meter.
- Know your film stocks.
- How will you know? By trial and error.
- Look at your negatives. It will tell you how you are doing with exposures.
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Featured Lumu user #27: Jeffrey Su
Short personal intro. Jeffrey Su (XiYang) (1995), A Chinese teenager who studied in UK for already 5 Years. Currently on an Architecture course in London University. When I was boy, the fact that my mom has a career as an interior designer made Art and design extremely close to my life. When other kids r playing with ready-made toys bought from a shop, I was putting Paints on Canvas and building my own toys out of wood pieces. Mom will also encourage me painting on the wall and creating news from the olds. I have always enjoyed creating things and express my emotions in many visual ways. I knew since ages ago that I have to live a life with creativity and Art, no matter what kinds of career it will be. A life without the freedom of creating is going be dead boring.
Your personal story with photography. I grew up with my Mother’s camera (film Nikon DSLR). She loves taking pictures of the family and things around her. Our family album is magnificent. Truly magnificent. However I intentionally started photography was about 5 years ago when I moved to UK. New environment and new country is perfect for getting inspired photographically, of course I didn’t know it back then, I just need to take pictures for my dad to see what was going on with my life. Later on photography just took off. Photography just feels natural for me. And many people around me supported my work. My family (especially my mother) loved my work and every holiday I would bring my recent work back to China and share with my friends and family. After 2 years of developing and exploring different kinds of photography, I finally realized that Street is where I truly belonged with my camera. After many times of talking to my father and showing him PPTs about the dream camera, I finally convinced my father investing in a Leica (m9p) for me. That summer in 2013 was the best summer in my life. I eat, sleep, dream with that Leica, and the quality of my shots has improved massively since the right gear came to my side. That was the first and only camera, which I had emotionally attached. Now in the first year of university, I moved to London town, this magical city filled with rich culture and amazing people. I’m really looking forward to see my future collaborations with this amazing place.
What do you want to achieve? I really want to be a good architecture student! Finishing all the work in time with high quality. Most importantly be truly myself as a teenager. Nowadays I see many people with the same age as me who doesn’t have a unique personality. They want to be rich, be cool, be popular. However they are not been who they really are. Find the one and only thing u love the most and live your life with it. That’s what I really want to achieve. Not being the person which others wants you to be.
Gear Patrol reviews Lumu
From the article, featured in their special Film Issue:
“Lumu couldn’t be easier to use, even if you have no experience with a hand-held light meter. Just plug it in, making sure the white light sensor is facing your camera. Then hold the meter up next to your subject, whether that’s your five-year-old kid, your favorite timepiece or your vintage Corvette, and click “Measure”. The app immediately...
Featured Lumu user #26: Samon Rajabnik
Short personal intro. I recently turned 25, and am relatively new to the photography world. For work, I’m what you call a ‘backline tech’ for the Foo Fighters. That means I travel with the guys and take care of their instruments and whatnot- which is also relatively new to me; I’ve always done tech work on instruments, just never in a touring situation.
Your personal story with photography.Before...
Featured #25: Nicolas Bertelsen Estrup
Short personal intro. I’ve been doing video production and photography for the past 9 years, I’ve created things such as commercials, music videos, corporate videos, broadcast television documentaries and so on. I’m self taught, and most of the time function as a one-man-army, which does that I often have different ways of going from a to b in a project than most other people within my field.
Your personal story with photography/video making. Photography and video production has always interested me, and mostly comes from my love of films. I’ve always been fascinated with great film work, and back then I hoped that I one day would be as good at creating powerful stories as the people whom I looked up to. There was also no iPhones or DSLR’s to do rock n’ roll things with, so my cousin and I would have to lie to his father, so that we could borrow his video camera to shoot our own little skateboard video, that was until my cousin broke his collarbone, then that fun ended. I also borrowed my fathers old camera that shot on film, and outraged him when I had shot a couple of rolls of film over the course of an hour, only to learn that it would cost a small fortune to have them processed. I still wonder to this day what might be on those rolls of film. Later in life I was asked to be the host and coordinator of an e-sport (electronic sport) tv show that was being created, which I said yes to and quickly after got into filming and editing, because we had a understaffed crew, which has led me to where I am today.
The craziest thing you ever did as a video producer and/or photographer? It’s not as much a crazy story as it was just a crazy project, but I once had to almost single handedly create a 55 minute television broadcast documentary about four inner city kids in Copenhagen that used Muay Thai fighting as a way off the streets. So in less than two months I planned, filmed, edited it so it was ready to be broadcasted as they had wanted. It was an absolutely insane task that was challenging in so many different ways. But to me the most important thing I learned was to only shoot stuff truly looked great, and keep a razor sharp focus on the story I wanted to tell as it all was created, it was such an amazing learning experience.
If you could give one final advice to fellow creative people, what would it be? Don’t be afraid of anything, and try everything. Also, and this might be tacky, but, listen to your heart, especially when it comes to business decisions, because at the end of the day the only thing that matters is that you’re happy with what you do, and that you can feel proud about everything you’ve done. If I had followed the advice of everyone around me I would never have made it to where I am today, so just listen to your heart and it will make sure to lead you in the right direction, always.
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Kevin Lee, winner of the Ansel Adams challenge
Kevin Lee is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. And the winner of the Lumu Ansel Adams Challenge! We did a short interview with him:
Your personal story with photography. My earliest memory of creating a photograph was during the night of my Aunt Cherlyn’s wedding reception. I was 13 years old when I curiously reached for one of the disposable film cameras laid out as party favors on the dining table. Ever since that moment I’ve been fascinated by photography and have acquired more cameras than I care to admit. As my passion for this art continues to grow, I’ve explored profound ways to communicate ideas and evoke honest emotion through still images. This unique ability to transcend language and cultural barriers is especially interesting to me as I pursue a new focus towards documentary photography.
#LumuAnselContest Because Ansel Adams has always been a great inspiration for my photography, I am deeply humbled and incredibly honored to have been selected. It’s an unforgettable thing that I hope will spark others the way Ansel Adams has influenced my work.
Kevin’s winning photograph: Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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What’s in your bag? For most of my personal work, I prefer to shoot film. I am drawn to the “film look” and enjoy the challenge of developing prints in the darkroom. I recently started shooting medium format and have fallen in love with film all over again.
Lumu Light Meter Review and Field Test
Anastasia Petukhova reviews Lumu light meter:
From the moment you see the box to the unpackaging process, you get more and more impressed. Matte finish, all the engraved lettering, and quality materials definitely give you the impression that this thing is build to last. I think this must have been one of the key considerations because of the design and size of Lumu. The leather case feels and...