Woooooooow everythings fine now :-D
Got my brand new 40D and its such a DIFFERENCE to the 400D. The 400D is definitely CRAP. Image quality on the 40D is so much better.

I am studying Design now at the University of Applied Sciences Munich (HM)! I love it. All the mates are SO great, creative. Everybody has its own very unique style and its very very inspiring to be there.

I'm much happier now, learning all that stuff about WHAT makes a good picture. Not technically but aesthetically!

I can recommend everybody to study there :-P

Have a nice day!

After making the best possible graduation on a normal academic high school everything changed.

Not having a plan of what I would be supposed to do I began a traineeship as a photo lab designer, which sounds greater than it is. It's a lower class job that can be done by any guy picked up from the street. My family and my elder friends recommended to do this, though a traineeship is something that would never be targeted by anyone with my graduation.


I've been working my ass off knowing that I won't finish that traineeship. Just for a good job grading. As if physical stress and psychic strain would not have been enough during the time since my graduation and now many so-called friendships were lost. Actually I only have contact to 2 of 86 people of my graduation class.

My younger friends who are still on my old school tend to betray me, too. It sounds hard, but nobody cares what I do. My calls are being ignored. False reasons for not getting in contact with me are played out. People fall in love with eachother, fading out their old friendships. I know that relationships in that age do not tend to last very long. So afterwards those people are all by themselves, too. Our society doesn't teach the people how to maintain friendships.

Well, I'm longing for love too. But it fails on my preferenes. People from my work place are all really dumb and uncreative. They are some kind of Morlocks. Those are the people that keep the world running, and are just a little cog in the wheel. Nothing special.

I applied for the university for making a bachelor and maybe afterwards the master in Photodesign. I'll be a Photographer and a Designer then. Really great photographer.
And it's damn hard to get in. About 450 people apply for 36 study places.
I cannot be sure to be accepted there, though my portfolio sent in was rather good.

My plan now is to quit at the dumb ass job and to do something great. I know a coverage photographer who needs some support and wants me to join her doing the job.
But she's over 50. Hell I need a girl.

Sephis

PS:
If you feel attracted by me, please send me a note. I am more muscular than on my ID pictures (they're too old to show my newest muscles. HAHA )

Hi people

Today I applied for the study path of Photo Designer at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich (HM.EDU).
The process consists of handing in a portfolio with max. 20 picture. You can have a look at my selection in my 'Mappe' Gallery here: [link]

If they 'accept' the portfolio, which means they like the pictures in some way, I will be invited to a personal discussion and some tests whatever that means. You get a one-way camera and are supposed to solve some kind of assignment in photography. That will be judged and they take you or not.

I hope they'll accept me at the University. Last year around 450 people applied for that study path and 34 were accepted. That's a chance of less than 10:1 if it's random ^_^ ....

Well, good luck with whatever you're doing right now.
Sephis

Hi!

It's been a long time since my last journal entry.



I decided to make more photography in the style of Jeff Wall. I mean acted scenes where something intense is happening. So some friends and I created a Series of pictures with me as the photographer.

I called it violence. I do not intend to be making violence photography only, that's why I called it that way. To distinguish it from other future series.

I'd love you to have a look at it, because it's something completely new for me.
Violence,
Series number 1: [link]
Series number 2: [link]
Series number 3: [link]
Series number 4: [link]
Series number 5: [link]


Thank you for stopping by

Hi everyone!

Tomorrow will be my last day in school! And I'll not be there

You know that... you sit on some book and you know that you should keep reading but it bores you to hell. My problem is, that I have to memorize everything I'm reading at the moment, because from the day after tomorrow and in the next weeks there'll be my final exams, something like A-Levels.

Sorry to keep you waiting for new works, but at the moment there is no time for anything else than learning, learning and - you know what - sleeping.

I see the school as the best time and also as the worst time in my life. In some way I'll be missing the school time. It might sound stupid, but I'll miss the everyday rushing to school, hours of wasted time listening to teachers who seem to know everything better than you and so on, because all the others had to make this through too. It's something that connects you and your friends.

But it's also time for looking forward! As you might know I applied for an apprenticeship place as a media laboratory assistant for digital photography and graphics (what a word) and what shall I say? They want me! So the next three years of my life are already planned. I'll do the things I can do best, get a little money for it and I'll have contact to enterprises like Prada, Oui, Hugo Boss, Vodafone, BMW and so on...

I have to break here, because I must read on! Thanks for your attention,

Sebastian