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Artist Feature

Csaba Kovács – Out of the Fog

One of the earliest concepts that many of us photographers learn is the power of lines in a photograph. Most often, this concept is demonstrated with a shot looking straight down some train tracks or maybe rows of crops in a field. It’s a powerful effect, and easily reproducible. Therefore, if a photographer makes converging lines a significant portion of their body of work, they better be damn good at it.

Csaba Kovács is a Hungarian photographer who is damn good at converging lines. He’s based in Budapest, a city that has a firm grip on his heart, where he roams looking for interesting places with what he calls “pinhole eyes”. Csaba has a love for analogue photography, reveling in the “magical world” of the silver-based process. Like many pinhole and analog photographers, he’s attracted to the opportunity to get away from the precision of digital and focus on the unique aesthetic of pinhole photography. He’s been practicing pinhole photography since 2013, and uses a Zero Image 2000 primarily.

Many of the compositions below will feature multiple converging lines. In addition, you’ll note that Csaba likes to get out into the city in the early hours of the morning, when the fog is still thick. This blanketing provides, for many of his compositions, a transmuting background which allows for his subject to come forward with a simple clarity.

After enjoying the images below, we encourage you to check out more of his work at his personal website.

Business Center
[singlepic id=230 w=600]Business Center, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Elisabeth Bridge
[singlepic id=231 w=600]Elisabeth Bridge, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Foggy Liberty 1
[singlepic id=232 w=600]Foggy Liberty 1, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Foggy Liberty 2
[singlepic id=233 w=600]Foggy Liberty 2, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Megyeri Bridge
[singlepic id=234 w=600]Megyeri Bridge, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Paris 1
[singlepic id=235 w=600]Paris 1, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Paris 2
[singlepic id=236 w=600]Paris 2, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Secret
[singlepic id=237 w=600]Secret, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Up
[singlepic id=242 w=600]Up, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Triangles
[singlepic id=240 w=600]Triangles, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Simple Symmetry
[singlepic id=238 w=600]Simple Symmetry, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

To The Nothing
[singlepic id=239 w=600]To The Nothing, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

Under The Sky
[singlepic id=241 w=600]Under The Sky, ©Csaba Kovács 2015[/singlepic]

 

 

 

Inspiration

Get Inspired – Pinholeshot

Today’s featured pinhole photo paints a scene of mystery with light.

Pinholeshot
[singlepic id=202 w=600]Pinholeshot, ©Larissa Honsek 2015[/singlepic]

Larissa Honsek used her pinhole camera in conjunction with light painting to create this enigmatic forest scene. We love the way she performed this 3-dimensionally, wrapping the light trails around the tree.

You can find more of Larissa’s work on Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. In addition, she was part of the team that published the book OBSCURA – a beautiful dedication to the art of pinhole photography.

 

Inspiration

Get Inspired – 10_4.5_p

Take in today’s featured pinhole in a place of quiet beauty.

10_4.5_p
[singlepic id=167 w=600]10_4.5_p, Zero Image 4×5, FOMA fomapan 100, ©De Ferschter 2015[/singlepic]

De Ferschter made this quiescent scene using a Zero Image 4×5 with a single frame added for a focal length of 50mm, with Fomapan 100 film. The way these trees stand apart, like 5 good friends, makes for such a strong composition.

You can find more of De Ferschter’s work on Flickr.

 

Inspiration

Get Inspired – Kaleidoscope

Today’s featured pinhole photo dazzles in reflections and cuts of light.

Kaleidoscope
[singlepic id=162 w=600]Kaleidoscope, ©Angel Rueda 2015[/singlepic]

Angel Rueda made this wonderful capture with his pinhole camera leveled into the sun and perfectly aligned with the symmetry of the scene. The effect is an almost overwhelming sense of light and warmth.

More of Angel’s photos can be found on Flickr.

Inspiration

Get Inspired – An Abandoned Forest

Today’s featured pinhole photo brings a sense of how deep those still waters run

An Abandoned Forest
[singlepic id=161 w=600]An Abandoned Forest, 4×5 pinhole camera, TMAX 100, ©Chien Wenwei 2015[/singlepic]

Chien Wenwei made this moody capture in Nantou, Taiwan of a stand of trees that have been overtaken by the floodwaters; with the absolute stillness of the water adds to the feeling of abandonment.

More of Chien’s work can be found on Flickr or Facebook.

 

Inspiration

Get Inspired – Walk 2015-05-08 012

Peer through the oak trees in today’s featured pinhole photo.

Walk 2015-05-08 012
[singlepic id=138 w=600]Walk 2015-05-08 012, ©Anatoly Tankov 2015[/singlepic]

Anatoly Tankov, whom we’ve featured before, produced this image while taking a walk through an oak grove at the Botanical Gardens in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. The vertigo induced by the trees is wonderfully captured in his image.

More of Anatoly’s work can be found on Flickr.

 

Inspiration

Get Inspired – Blue Lake

I want to sit by the edge of this small lake all day…

Blue Lake
[singlepic id=122 w=600]Blue Lake, Zero 45 w/Graflex 23 back, Kodak Ektar, ©Moni Smith 2015[/singlepic]

Moni Smith made this wonderful capture at Blue Lake, Portland, Oregon – a city that surprises with so many quiet places of understated beauty such as this. She made this shot with her Zero Image 45 in the 25mm configuration and a Graflex 23 back loaded with Kodak Ektar 100. For a long time I’ve shot Fuji color, but something about the tonality of Ektar these days has got me rolling in that direction now.

More of Moni’s work can be found on Flickr, her personal blog, and her pinhole blog that she runs with some friends, Pinhole Obscura.

 

Inspiration

Get Inspired – Paessaggio

Today we feature a scene so serene we could stare at it all day..

Paesaggio
[singlepic id=88 w=600]Paesaggio, Reality So Subtle 4×5, TMax 100, ©Vittorio Silingardi[/singlepic]

Vittorio Silingardi made this wonderful capture in the countryside of Europe. The title, Paesaggio, refers to the European sense of landscape, and the way that the individual observation is the uniqueness of the experience. We love this photo for the way that Vittorio framed the foreground and the sweep of the land such that it feels like one could walk into the scene.

More of Vittorio’s work can be found on his website and Flickr.

 

Inspiration

Get Inspired – Camp Tecumseh

Today’s featured photo reminds us of simple pleasures.

Camp Tecumseh
[singlepic id=37]Camp Tecumseh, Ondu 6×6, ©Jeff McConnell 2015[/singlepic]

Jeff McConnell captured this warm scene with his wonderful Ondu 6×6 pinhole camera (mentioned in our camera roundup!). The leaves on some of the trees just starting to turn for Fall, and inviting chairs on the dock, make you want to just kick an afternoon away laughing with a friend and watching the clouds pass by.

This photo was chosen because of the way the pinhole feel adds to the vignette of fond memories.

Jeff’s images can be found on Flickr and on his personal website.