roman kalous

After a few years of happy usage of the nokia 6021, with the calendar and messaging connected through BT and PC Suite to my laptop, I was recently in serious consideration of a switch to even more advanced phone. The main reason was accessibility of these devices, such as iPhone, nokia e75, etc.

I was thinking of integrated calendar (personal & working), notepad for writing instant thoughts when laptop is not available, and also a light-catching device (for ad-hoc photographs and clips).

I made a try with an iPhone–having one borrowed for a while. It was cool experience. But I did not get comfortable with the virtual keyboard though, especially for larger texts… And also I was surprised by its rather weak battery powers.

Then, I figured out I may be benefitting from having a company blackberry device! I ordered a blackberry 9000 bold and am using it for two weeks now. It brings all the calendar features, notepad writing and photo-device inside. The writing is a bit complicated as well –esp. in Czech, but I need to get used to it.

Now, look at the images below and make a guess what device these were taken with! It’s the blackberry. The camera is definitely not an SLR one, with light enough it makes for acceptable portaits. But these blurry shapes surprised me greatly.

Intensionally I am not telling any details on it. Hope you may like it as well.

Once again, we visited čerchov. This time we were there the whole family, Lucka, me and Bohdana. This Sunday an ‘outdoor’ mass was celebrated there, in Czech and German at once.

The weather was excellent all day. Bohdana was a bit nervous sitting in the pram all the way up. On the top then she enjoyed rambling around which nowadays is her most favourite activity. We managed also to attend the mass partly.

I got the camera with me as well but the occasions to take some snaps were rare. Not because of situations themselves, rather because I needed to take care of Bohdana. Sill, when waiting for two beers, I made it to shot the two additional shots of the two towers.

I went through folder with a bit outdated photographs.

The portfolio is on hopefully standard page.

I am especially happy I found the shots from “close things” series, as well as “city lights”. The lights, they were shot by my first camera, canon powershot. I simply placed the camera on the ground and snapped a few shots. Then, I remember the whole night I spent with the gimp manipulations.

Then the close things collection. The initial motivation was to identify and illustrate the ordinary things that surround us and also that provide us with comfort/pleasure/interests.

I snapped books, mobile phone, my clarinette, Lucka’s dog, as I remember. I picked the b/w outfit that allowed for higher contrast range applied without “colour” distortion.

v neděli ráno jsme s Pavlem vyrazili na focení inverze na čerchov. už v sobotu jsme viděli, že žádná inverze nebude, ale byli jsme zvědavý, jaký počasí bude a jestli nebude fotogenický.

děsný děsný vstávání. ale procházka potom výborná. nahoře, přímo u rozhledny, byl dost silnej vítr, takže jsme měli zkřehlý ruce.

Dora se přímo během focení nudila tak, jako vždycky. a protože tam byl vítr a zima, tak dělala, že je jí zima, a třásla se a klepala a pískala a citově vydírala.

celkově paráda. příště už ale musíme trefit tu inverzi.

vyzkoušel jsem po dlouhý době COKIN filtry, ND a gradual grey. s výsledkama jsem dost spokojenej. místy je moc citelnej ten gradual. a některý fotky jdou po zpracování trochu do fialova, i když v reálu po teplých barvách ani stopy. wtf?!

a tohle už jsou standardní televizní obrazovky z cesty dolů…