Younes Bounhar Photography

Two for one

Younes — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:36:43 +0000

I just can’t say enough about how the iPhone has revived me photographically. Not that I was dead or anything, but just having a camera with me at all times has been thoroughly liberating. This is a quick snap I took on my way to work at the old city hall in Otown. I have been dreaming of photographing this place for some rime now, but take you SLR to the buildjg and your kicked out before you know it. Apparently though not all cameras are created equal, an SLR labels you as potentially dangerous while a sneaky, smaller iPhone, well everyone has one of those, how bad can it be, right?

This the first post I prepared entirely on my wordpress app, can’t wait to see how it works out.

Learning

Younes — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:00:10 +0000

I have been thinking of writing this post for about a week now, but struggled with finding a proper way to introduce it. Until now that is. It turns out that David Duchemin just happpened to provide the perfect segway for what I am about to say in his latest blog post. David discusses some misconceptions surrounding the concept of “professional” photographer and insists on the importance of learning in the creative process. It really doesn’t matter if you are a pro or amateur, the minute you stop learning and pushing yourself further, you might as well quit. I have to say I couldn’t agree more. I was in fact reminded of this fact no later than last week as I was teaching a private workshop on architectural photography. It is quite fascinating in fact to be in a situation where people come to you for instruction and teaching, but if you play it right you can end up learning as much out of it yourself. While you are teaching you actually take a step back and get a much needed refresher on the basics. In addition, as you are looking for elements to illustrate the principles you teach you get even more perspective. If that wasn’t enough, this amazing thing happens when you have several people looking at the same subject: subjectivity. It is amazing how many times you pick a location, put 5-6 photographers in there and come out with as many interpretations as there are people around!

So here I am on my workshop, teaching that you don’t always have to trust or even care about your metering. You can choose to under or overexpose subjects just because. So with that in mind, we are on location and I am out and about giving tips and tricks to my participants, completely oblivious to my own teachings, when one of them surprises me with an image of this location which I had never envisaged, but which stems directly of that very element I was teaching. So it is without shame that I admit that the following image was completely inspired by Hagen, whose pictures you will see in my next post.

This is the image I would have shot otherwise:

Kaleidoscope

Younes — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:16:06 +0000

I was in Montreal last week for training. On the way back home I couldn’t help but stop at the Palais des Congres near the metro. I managed to sneak a few shots before I hopped on the bus. I simply couldn’t resist the display of colours and awesome diagonals the building offered at every turn…

March 2010 Monthly Desktop Wallpaper and Calendar

Younes — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:21:38 +0000

Spring is in the air! Can’t deny it. People will complain about the slush, the rain and the ice, but I couldn’t care less, spring is coming fast. Warm air, fresh grass and no more shoveling…

As usual you can download the wallpaper in 3 sizes:

1280 1024 800

Enjoy!

In the metro

Younes — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:05:28 +0000

A quick grab with my iPhone in the Montreal subway.