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Photogallery is created by www.econcept.dk

Besides being a professional historian and a former media-archivist at Danish Broadcasting’s Research Department, I have been a photographer for more than 30 years (born 1943).

Photogallery.dk contains more than 900 photographs selected from a huge stock of negatives. It is every month supplemented with new photographs. These photos are all for sale, but even if you are not a buyer, I hope you will enjoy the slideshows. Please have patience for a few minutes for the download.

Photography has throughout my life given me profound and unexplicable satisfaction.
My way of photography is intuitive in the sense that nothing is planned. Before I start a photographic tour I go through 10-15 photo-magazines in a couple of hours, getting inspired by the many great photos in many categories. Then I just walk into the city or the landscape – openminded and very alert and concentrated on discovery. I am not inspired by any of the great photographers in particular, but I am thankful for their ability to open my eyes to reality around me.

On my photographic tours I used to carry 2 mediumformat TLRs, Mamiya 330 PRO, with lenses from 55 mm to 250 mm, plus two Minolta 9xi 135 mm cameras with lenses from 18 mm to 300 mm. My enlargers are an AGFA C66 Pro and a DURST 707 Colour with Schneider-Kreuznach and Rodagon lenses. Manfrotto and Velbon tripods. My use of films changes all the time. I have had a long period with Ilford Delta 400 developed in Microphen stock, exposed as 800 asa – and Fuji’s SHG100 colour negative film. For the time being I use Kodak CN41 for black and white, Kodak Ektachrome 100 VS and Fuji Provia 400 for colour photographs. I feel that I will soon change this back to Ilfords fantastic Delta film. I have recently discovered the outstanding scanning properties of FUJI ASTIA PROF, so together with the E100VS, it will be in my rucksack this summer (together with Ektacolour 1600, which is a "Geheimtipp", when it is crossdeveloped in C41). But I must admit that 75% af my photographs are now digital.  

My digital 5Mp Olympus Camedia 5060WZ was a great and positive surprise to me some years ago. Now I have the bridgecamera SONY DSC R1, 10.3 Mp, Zeiss Vario Sonnar T* 24/120 mm, enormous quality for the money. It is rated even better than the new Nikon D200 in the German EISA-Magazine, "Fotomagazin" for the "technical" part of the test - The Nikon is a bit better in the "practice" part! The SONY has very large nettodata (20 MB with the Zeiss at 50 mm)), it makes 60 MB TIFF's in 16 bit colour, crystal clear pixels!
But the digital photography has its own problems. .
But the worst is the heavy digital problems concerning storage - and especially LONG TERM storage – of the digital material.
Not that analog film-material has solved this serious problem. But the analog processes and the film material can always be recreated. It is in a way machine-independent. It is not high tech in the same sense as the digital technology is. The digital material is to an extreme degree only machine-readable material. The technical standards as well as the hardware and software changes radically all the time. Obsolete techniques in the digital fields cannot be recreated - where are the chips, where is the software! And common standards please! Not different RAW-format-standards etc. etc!!
But in the long run the digital technology is the only way due to the advantage of lossless copying (if your equipment is perfect and if you are extremely careful! Never use JPEG's as archival formats!) - but it is vulnerable and it requires great care. Really long term storage of analog film material is not possible, and the only way of maintaining your collections is analog copying with severe quality losses - and copying again and again! Enough of this!

We are lucky that the affordable film-scanners are now of a very high quality. So today we can have both analog and digital. Analog film-material with all its well-known qualities and weaknesses, and a digitalized copy supplementing our long term storage possibilities and at the same time giving us all the great advantages of the digitalized media. And the file-sizes from the scanners surpasses greatly the 5-8 megapixel camera’s 15 MB RGB even if the scanner-pixels are not quite as “clean” as the pixels coming directly from a high quality digital camera. In fact it is often so that the scanned pixels carry no further information - I guess that a professional 8 megapixel camera equals a 200 dias 135-mm film in the sense that real information about sharpness etc. is the same.

I use a KODAK RFS3600 PRO film-scanner for 135 mm films (50 MB files RGB) and an EPSON 3200 PHOTO for medium format film (150 MB files RGB). If an extreme digital quality is necessary I have access to an IMACON drum-scanner, and I must say that this is fantastic. I have been working with Photoshop, now version CS3 , for 9 years, and I must say that the combination of high-resolution scanners and Photoshop is very potent and very enchanting, almost playful! But the discussion of use and misuse of the digital possibilities in serious photography must go on and on. Great self-discipline and a development of “good taste” (?) is necessary. Just to make some digital (playful but seriously meant!) experimentation, I have made the folder “Experimental”. It has nothing to do with photography – the play with the graphic possibilities in Photoshop is a discipline in its own right - but some of the images might have some appeal anyway?

The analog printing process as it is carried out in serious darkroom-work is in my opinion unsurpassed – in quality, in beauty, in long term preservation possibilities. And in heavy work! I must admit that I spend much less time in my darkroom now than I did last year!
Printing from the digital Photoshop masters is a lot easier (when you have used months to learn the details of this digital business!): No colour casts, no dust etc. etc. I use an HP PHOTOSMART PRO B9180 A3+ printer, and it is absolutely satisfying within its digital limits.

This discussion could go on for many pages! Most of the problems are of a rather trivial technical nature. And I must say that a happy relationship with the digital media requires a lot of reading of books and manuals and practising before they are mastered to a considerable degree – it is very complicated and timeconsuming and expensive! But it is worth the time and the money! It is absolutely the greatest technical revolution in the history of photography (and the photographs from the new professional digital SLR's are very convincing and promising, indeed!! Even mediumformat cameras must feel threatened!!) – but it has problems of its own – it has its own “noise”, its own ugly artifacts, its own way of colour casting, its own way of degrading over the years, its own ways of degrading in the Photoshop-processes, its own problems of “sharpness-illusions”, its great degree of complication, its vulnerability etc. etc. These special digital problems are not yet at all clear and realized!                                                                               

For the sake of good order: All the photographs in Photogallery.dk are copyrighted by me. But you are free to use photographs from photogallery.dk for strictly private purposes, including your (non-commercial!) homepage, if you credit me.
If you have special ideas about using my photographs then please email me at photogallery@econcept.dk. Some of the photographs are only sold via the large bureau scanpix - www.scanpix.dk. Please email me about this.