Master of Lights - Leica world class workshop - Christian Habermeier (I)

On July 7, 2022, as the 53rd edition of the Les Rencontres d'Arles festival opened, professional department of #LeicacameraAG, set up an international working meeting between Christian Habermeier and a select group of passionate listeners or users of the #LeicaS medium format. ? #Leica #leicacamera

Who is Christian Habermeier ?

https://christianhabermeier.de

His book the ADIDAS, archive propelled him to European fame as a now world-class photographer.

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Number one in sales in its category, worldwide, the TASCHEN publishing house has released a best seller, unexpected one. ?The accuracy as well as the quality of the colors in his photographs demonstrate all the technical mastery, light, calibration and final files of Christian.

?in May, during the Leica Bern summit in Switzerland, Christain came to present his 3D work for GUCCI and ADIDAS, produced with the leica S3, under the gaze of the Leica owner and visionary Doctor Andréas Kaufmann

Christian is currently working with our Leica medium format system, he bought three Leica S3 cameras in 2021 - 2022, coupled with around twenty Leica S lenses. The set is used for his 2 and 3D shots.

He loves art, masters his personal subjects with high-quality of a true professional photographer.?

Back to our workshop with Christian for exterior portraits in PORT CAMARGUES

In the prestigious Port Camargues beach, Christian Habermeier presented his very professional way of working with flash rings and LED light rings. The set used to make outdoor portraits of Art in mixed light or visual realities of reportage. The spectacular and immediate results opened the debate on high-tech engine torque and creativity. The lightness and compactness of the Leica 30/90mm zoom that Christian uses impressed the participants. Only the result counts, you will tell me, but his approach to exterior portraits in Leica S3, light, fine, very powerful, left us speechless. A master of light before being a master in Leica.

Coming from very far away, for example from Africa Nigeria, from Brussels in Belgium, from German or French-speaking Switzerland, from Barcelona, from the capital Berlin in Germany, or simply from Paris or Aix in Provence, our Leica S enthusiasts were thirsty to personally meet Christian to listen to his working interpretation in Leica medium format.

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Photographic painting, under the light of Arles and colors of Van Gogh

Christian has decided to change his objective, like his Theme. Here we move in the art of colors with his stenotype mounted on a Leica S bodies.

In fact, Christian uses the maximum type of pinhole, all manufactured with great rigor and a mastery of physics, as well as mechanics. One of the highlights was opening the final files of over 360 MB in RGB RAW, seeing all the fineness of the colors. Like to see a marvelous photographic Painting… with Leica colors???

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?A beautiful shared multicultural experience, rich in human and technical exchanges, under an extraordinary conviviality