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Jacques Pochoy

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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #45 on: September 12, 2015, 11:17:27 »
A great friend, a photographer and artist, alas gone too soon !


Guy VACHERET... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr, 85mm f/1.8 AF-D and D3x.

Or the "whispering" one...


Confidences... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr, 105mm f/2.8 AF-S Micro VR and D3x.

In another location, Honfleur, by the sea, some children playing at fishing make believe...


A la pêche à la baleine bleue... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr, 85mm f/1.8 AF-D and D3x.
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Jakov Minić

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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #46 on: September 12, 2015, 11:24:53 »
Jacques, you must be using a flash for all these shots.
Can you tell us how you use it, because it seems as if you are not using, and that is what we would like to learn.

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Jacques Pochoy

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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #47 on: September 12, 2015, 11:43:50 »
Quote from: Jakov Minić on September 12, 2015, 11:24:53
Jacques, you must be using a flash for all these shots.
Can you tell us how you use it, because it seems as if you are not using, and that is what we would like to learn.

Most of the 3Dx pictures in interior are with the SB 900. The flash is on TTl-BL, and the white card is fully extended while the flash head is turned toward the ceiling (or the sky, as what counts is the reflexion on the card). While I know I shouldn't, I'm often in Auto-ISO mode on the camera, so sometimes I have surprises !
Flash wise, it's just as simple as that... :-) Apart that with a D3x, a SB 900 and a 105mm f/2.8 VR, I feel like Weegee and his flash bulbs on his Speed Graphic camera...

With the Df I don't use the flash (I haven't yet taken out the small plastic protection of the flash shoe :-) ) and everything is much lighter !
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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #48 on: September 12, 2015, 16:47:50 »
The last image looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.  It is timeless and innocent and joyous. I will remember that image for a long time.
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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #49 on: September 12, 2015, 17:15:52 »
Quote from: Jacques Pochoy on September 10, 2015, 18:18:46
Thanks a lot... :-) Well, when I shoot empty streets or urban details, I try to follow Eugène Atget and for people, Robert Doisneau more then H.C-B. Maybe that's why I like so much B&W... :-)
I agree, Atget's and Doisneau's work is also more my taste.  Your excellent portraits do remind me of the French period  of the dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken but it's also a kind of nostalgia for Paris I presume. ;)   Is your  'Home-Café' in the vicinity of Jardin de Luxembourg?
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Jacques Pochoy

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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #50 on: September 12, 2015, 18:02:30 »
Quote from: Gary on September 12, 2015, 16:47:50
The last image looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.  It is timeless and innocent and joyous. I will remember that image for a long time.

Thank you very much ! It's one of my favorites too ! As some of my other favorites, it was taken casually, without real carefulness as I was heading to my rented car at my daughter's marriage :-) It's only after that I thought it was a little gem, out of time ! :-)
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Olivier

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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #51 on: September 12, 2015, 18:06:25 »
Hi Jacques

Keep posting and I may as well start to like Paris (I have been living very near for the last 15 years, and work in the 17th district a few days every week).
Thank you!

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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #52 on: September 12, 2015, 18:10:11 »
Quote from: John Geerts on September 12, 2015, 17:15:52
I agree, Atget's and Doisneau's work is also more my taste.  Your excellent portraits do remind me of the French period  of the dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken but it's also a kind of nostalgia for Paris I presume. ;)   Is your  'Home-Café' in the vicinity of Jardin de Luxembourg?
Thank you for making me discover a photographer I didn't know about !!! The St Germain des Prés period, the Amsterdam one, the relationship with Weegee, I'll try to find dome good books or catalogues (He was exposed at the VU gallery some time ago)!

My home is next to the Luxembourg garden and my workplace and Café is more on the Montparnasse side.. :-)
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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #53 on: September 12, 2015, 18:16:41 »
Quote from: Olivier on September 12, 2015, 18:06:25
Hi Jacques

Keep posting and I may as well start to like Paris (I have been living very near for the last 15 years, and work in the 17th district a few days every week).
Thank you!

Olivier

Thanks, but I guess that I could live in any city and still find details or people to take pictures of :-) Sure, Paris is great and it's cafés are often microcosms of the districts they are in, but you can find that in most European cities. And the 17è arrondissement is certainly not my favorite vs the 19è which has a much younger population, new artists, new trendy cafés and the "Buttes Chaumont" garden :-)
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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #54 on: September 12, 2015, 19:20:08 »
Of course, the ladies have priority... :-)


Portrait impromptu... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr 85mm f/2 AI and D200.


Coup de théâtre... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr, 35mm f/2 AF-D and D3x.


Après l'examen... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr, 35mm f/2 AF-D and D3x.
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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #55 on: September 12, 2015, 19:55:47 »
Adorable !  Especially the first one.
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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #56 on: September 12, 2015, 23:42:53 »
Quote from: John Geerts on September 12, 2015, 19:55:47
Adorable !  Especially the first one.

That was a surprise shot ! She was asking me why I was using such an old and battered MF lens, I answered that it was much easier to shoot with  it then with the heavier AF ones and raised the camera, turned the focus ring and pressed the shutter in a second, and was just as surprised as she was at the results (I  was expecting it to be blurred  because I was a bit too near)... :-)
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Jacques Pochoy

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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #57 on: September 13, 2015, 12:45:41 »
Well, I don't discriminate with guys either... :-)


Thomas... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr, 50mm f/1.8 G AF-S and Df.

Nor couples in various situations...


Repéré... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr, 50mm f/1.8 G AF-S and Df.

Or again...


Ras le bol... by ArchiVue, sur Flickr, 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 and D70.
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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #58 on: September 13, 2015, 13:06:29 »
Love your style...

But why "Ras le bol"? If my meager French doesn't fail me totally this translates to "fed up"?

cheers
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Re: Portraits from here to elsewhere...
« Reply #59 on: September 13, 2015, 14:55:50 »
Quote from: afx on September 13, 2015, 13:06:29
Love your style...

But why "Ras le bol"? If my meager French doesn't fail me totally this translates to "fed up"?

cheers
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That's what the young lady was thinking, as in fact, she didn't really know the guy... :-)
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