This website is currently being built. It is expected to be fully functional on january 2009.

# Contact me at

# About this website

www.urindarfoto.com is the photographic portfolio website of Manel ^ Urindar.

# About Manel ^ Urindar

I am now studying professional photography at the IEFC school, Barcelona, doing the second of their four-year professional photography degree. My current goal is to learn as much as I can from whatever sources, while I start my own photographic venture to take on personal as well as commercial projects.

My main photographic interests are portraits of people and animals, wildlife and nature photography, photojournalism and traveling photography, covering popular events and conceptual photography.

I am more of a digital shooter, though I can work on film as well. Depending on the theme and mood, I work on color or black and white.

My studies in computer engineering give me a lot of insight and useful skills in the new digital world of photography. For example, I extensively use linux and open source software in my digital workflow, and not just adobe products like most photographers do.

Finally, my travelling experience and side abilities make me feel comfortable shooting at a variety of location types and conditions most city based photographers dont want to go to.

# Prizes, Mentions, Expositions

• 2009 - 03 - Exposition - "Old doors are beautiful" at Centre Civic Sandaru, Barcelona

# Projects, Commercial

• (ufcp003) Jazz per al Amazones (Conciertos (en desarrollo 2008-12))
• (ufcp002) Yoga SC (Retratos exterior (anulado 2008-11))
• (ufcp001) Estudios la Taifa (Interiorismo (en desarrollo 2008-12))

# Projects, Personal

7h3 Numb3r5 (The Numbers)

Numbers can be beautiful. House numbers from around, as well as street numbers, big numbers... anything goes.

Numbers participated on a collective exposition "Foto Festa 2008" as part of the IEFC selection of alumni's work.

Old doors are beautiful

Old doors have a strange personality in them. As time passes, doors stop being standard objects and become more like old people, bearing the signs of a long life. Wood or metal, dented or rusted, painted or not, old doors can be beautiful.

88 unique souls

Every person is unique. But some are more unique than others. Sometimes you get lucky and can take a photograph of someone whom you can feel is not an ordinary person, even if he is socially felt like one. When personality and character make a person glow, you feel you are touching a unique soul.

I feel their feelings

I feel animals have feelings. They can experience sadness, joy, frustration, anger... This series is meant to capture those moments in which animals show their personalities and feelings clearly, even to the unaccostumed eye.

# Photograhic Studies

• - 2008 - Lux congress by AFP (Barcelona, october) (5 hours)
  Attended conferences on color workflow, new business opportunities and photography pricing
• - 2008 - IEFC, Professional Photography course, 2nd year (current) (480 hours)
  Image Storytelling
  Image Color
  Black and white lab
  Digital lab (photoshop selections)
  Studio work (flash bowens lighting, accessories, softbox, snoot, light metering, portraits)
• - 2007 - Adobe Creative's Day, Barcelona, november (5 hours)
  1day seminar on adobe workflow and products with lightroom and photoshop
• - 2007 - IEFC, Professional Photography course, 1st year (380 hours)
  Image Composition
  Black and white lab
  Digital lab (photoshop basics)
  Studio work (fixed bowens lighting, accessories, light metering, portraits)
• - 2004 - Introduction to photography course (30 hours)
  UPC (AVED assoc.)
  basics of photography

# Equipment I have worked with

Medium format camera systems

• Kodak Brownie Hawkeye
• Hasselblad 503

Reflex camera systems

• Canon EOS 5D
• Canon 400D
• Canon Rebel 5G
• Lens Canon 16-35 f2.8 L USM II
• Lens Canon 24-105 f4.0 L IS USM II
• Lens Canon 70-200 f2.8 L IS USM II
• Canon 2.0x duplicator
• Canon Speedlite 580 EX2
• Minolta Dynax 404
• Tamron 28-200 f4-5.6

Other camera systems

• Pinholes
• Lomo Fisheye 2
• Underwater point and shoot cameras

Digital laboratory software

• I run my digital lab on a Ubuntu KDE computer, and photoshop on a VirtualBox OSE winXP virtual machine. A lot of my workflow solutions are customized.
• Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Adobe Lightroom
• Adobe Camera Raw
• Linux Bibble pro
• Linux Digikam
• Linux Hugin
• Linux GIMP
• Linux Phatch

Chemical Camera Film

• Kodak 120 bnw
• Ilford bnw Delta 400
• Fujicolor superia diapositive film ISO 100
• Kodak TriX color

Chemical Lab

• coming soon

Studio and lighting equipment

• Bowens Lights
• Bowens Studio Flashes
• Softboxes, umbrellas, reflectors
• Remote flash controls
• Studio tripods
• Light Stands and rigs

# Side skills

• Languages in a native level: English, Spanish, Catalan
• Driving licenses: Car, Motorcycle (good experience in and off-road)
• Scuba Diving License: ACUC Open Water Diver
• Natural skill dealing with animals

# Photographers I admire

• coming soon

# Devoured books

• (3 / 5) The moment it clicks (Joe McNally)
  This book deals with strobe techniques on studio and on the go. Its easy to read and understand, and you can see how a strobe addict works.
• (4 / 5) The Photograph: Composition & Color Design [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover) (by Harald Mante)
  One of the best books I've read on composition and color, almost from a painter's perspective. Dots, lines, groups, patterns, color relations... a good book on one of the basic subjects. Only wish the texts where longer.

# Soon-to-be Devoured books

• Professional Photoshop: the ultimate guide to color correction (Dan Margullis)
• Fotografia digital de alta calidad (Jose Maria Mellado)

# Photographers websites I recommend you to take a look at

• coming soon

# Other interesting photography links

• coming soon