Local: Leiria - Portugal
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Member since: 2010-04-17
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About me:
Descobri a fotografia aos 14 anos, desde logo comecei a processar as minhas próprias fotos com produtos químicos comprados na farmácia.
Dez anos mais tarde, montei o meu estúdio profissional, especializei-me no retoque em chapas rigidas de grande formato produzidas numa câmara técnica 18x24cm à qual adaptei uma Hasselblad 500 CM e comecei a fazer fotografias para catálogo.
Próximo dos anos 80 iniciei-me na fotografia industrial , trabalhei para várias empresas nacionais e internacionais, Nestlé, Unicer, fábricas de vidro, plástico, moldes etc.
No final da década fui obrigado a abandonar este trabalho porque eu sonhava com o digital. Tornei-me um fotógrafo industrial com cinco laboratórios fotográficos em Leiria.
No inicio dos anos 90, perante o olhar incrédulo da maioria dos fotógrafos, fui o primeiro Português a manipular fotografias num computador, dei formação e estágios sobre fotografia digital a alunos de várias escolas quando ainda ninguém sabia falar esta linguagem. Percorri o mundo dos EUA ao Japão na busca de mais conhecimento mas percebi que estávamos todos no mesmo "barco" só nos restava "remar" no mesmo sentido.
No final do século XX o meu sonho tornou-se realidade: A fotografia digital ficou finalmente ao alcance de todos.
Desde o inicio do século XXI, dedico-me à criação de páginas web com o objectivo de divulgar a fotografia em todo o mundo.
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Manuel Figueiredo was born in the 10th of August of 1952 in Alcobaça, Portugal.
In his childhood he revealed a great appetence for electronics. Later, at the age of 14, he discovered photography. He started to process his own photos with chemicals bought in the drugstore.
In the Navy, he continued to study electronics. After his military duty he had to decide between electronics and photography. Fortunately, he managed to conceal his two passions, bringing electronics to photography. He was the first photographer in Portugal to explore that.
Between 1980 and 1990 he was requested by several enterprises to solve technical problems concerned with the execution of slides to printing companies and with industrial and air photography. He became an industrial photographer with five photographic laboratories in Leiria, Portugal.
In the nineties he was a pioneer in digital photography. He was request by several schools to teach in that area.
He learnt to fly paragliding and he flew in several countries, from Atacama desert to Japan, always carrying his camera.
In the beginning of the XXI century he devoted to program web pages with the purpose to disclose photography all over the world.
His recent site “fineart-portugal.com” easily became the best Portuguese site of photography.
Dez anos mais tarde, montei o meu estúdio profissional, especializei-me no retoque em chapas rigidas de grande formato produzidas numa câmara técnica 18x24cm à qual adaptei uma Hasselblad 500 CM e comecei a fazer fotografias para catálogo.
Próximo dos anos 80 iniciei-me na fotografia industrial , trabalhei para várias empresas nacionais e internacionais, Nestlé, Unicer, fábricas de vidro, plástico, moldes etc.
No final da década fui obrigado a abandonar este trabalho porque eu sonhava com o digital. Tornei-me um fotógrafo industrial com cinco laboratórios fotográficos em Leiria.
No inicio dos anos 90, perante o olhar incrédulo da maioria dos fotógrafos, fui o primeiro Português a manipular fotografias num computador, dei formação e estágios sobre fotografia digital a alunos de várias escolas quando ainda ninguém sabia falar esta linguagem. Percorri o mundo dos EUA ao Japão na busca de mais conhecimento mas percebi que estávamos todos no mesmo "barco" só nos restava "remar" no mesmo sentido.
No final do século XX o meu sonho tornou-se realidade: A fotografia digital ficou finalmente ao alcance de todos.
Desde o inicio do século XXI, dedico-me à criação de páginas web com o objectivo de divulgar a fotografia em todo o mundo.
EN
Manuel Figueiredo was born in the 10th of August of 1952 in Alcobaça, Portugal.
In his childhood he revealed a great appetence for electronics. Later, at the age of 14, he discovered photography. He started to process his own photos with chemicals bought in the drugstore.
In the Navy, he continued to study electronics. After his military duty he had to decide between electronics and photography. Fortunately, he managed to conceal his two passions, bringing electronics to photography. He was the first photographer in Portugal to explore that.
Between 1980 and 1990 he was requested by several enterprises to solve technical problems concerned with the execution of slides to printing companies and with industrial and air photography. He became an industrial photographer with five photographic laboratories in Leiria, Portugal.
In the nineties he was a pioneer in digital photography. He was request by several schools to teach in that area.
He learnt to fly paragliding and he flew in several countries, from Atacama desert to Japan, always carrying his camera.
In the beginning of the XXI century he devoted to program web pages with the purpose to disclose photography all over the world.
His recent site “fineart-portugal.com” easily became the best Portuguese site of photography.
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