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FAQ - here we go, the most popular questions of the last years:
Question: - I don't find anything on your pages?
Ferenc Piller: - There probably is nothing for you to find.
Question: - I don't think your webdesign is gold medal?
Ferenc Piller: - Go find some of the other 450 Million gold medal sites on the web.
Question: - For whom is your site there for anyway?
Ferenc Piller: - For the lots of people that used to know and still know me now, people that slipped out of sight and enjoy to get or stay in touch again this way - I will enjoy it as much as they do. If you know who you are, you'll get around. Everybody else can mail me if necessary...
Question: - How do I know you were expecting me?
Ferenc Piller: - If you don't know, I was probably not. However, if you think I could find interest in you - simply drop me a couple of lines.
Question: - Maybe you've forgotten me?
Ferenc Piller: - I don't forget anyone. Ever. Besides, I feel sympathie for all those who acompanied my life for a time. So are chances - if you still feel forgotten (by me). I assume you are able to use the keyboard in front of you for writing an email - just find out...
Question: - What shall the stupid fnckiug loveletter?
Ferenc Piller: - It bl00dy obviously is not meant for you...
Question: - Your galeries are chaotic!
Ferenc Piller: - So is universe. However, I don't believe in chaos in common sense... Mathematicians, physicists and of course philosophers have created marvelouse »essays« on this.
Question: - Why don't your photographs have titles, others put titles on everything?!
Ferenc Piller: - (?!...) If your eyes don't see, titles won't make them see either... The old »one-picture-says-more-than-thousand-words« thing is true - indeed, pictures talk. If it doesn't tell you anything, it didn't talk to you. You don't talk indiscriminate to everybody, do you? Even if they blow a message with 10 billion watts on the air - if you got the wrong frequency you will not get it though it is more than »loud«. I feel quiet comfortable about this.
Question: - What kind of equipment do you use?
Ferenc Piller: - A very handy exposure meter, additionally another one with object/spot/flash metering are almost always with me. I use various cordless flashes with TTL-control if necessary, nevertheless I try to manage with reflectors etc in general - its more about getting details out of shadows than »making the light« for a shot. On assignments I don't fear using large scale flash equipment even outside - budget and powersupply are the only limiting factors... I consider natural light beeing the most valueable, but talking artificial illumination I prefer large softboxes and so on. This topic doesn't belong on this website of mine though.
Question: - Which CAMERAS do you use!??
Ferenc Piller: - _Yeah, there we go..._ Well, it depends on the aim and purpose of a production. Film or digital, high resolution or not critical. I work almost thirty years now with film material - you don't just quit like that, simply because I like »real« photographs. Private and for my own, I still prefer film, even if you find me running around with digital backs and bodies. System cameras have the advantage to live up to my requirements, which maker you choose is almost a matter of belief. In a production environment there is hardly a choice since about the beginning of the third millennium. Enough, we're drifting far offshore for this website now...