Marcus Gier on Fstoppers

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My Name is Marcus Gier and I get in touch with photography during my first education as a photographer when I was 20. Back then I have worked in this job only for two years and never had touched a Camera afterwards. In the last 20 years I have founded an It-Systemhouse and sold it in 2012. Since 2012, I do trade with vintage watches and pens.

In 2016, we adopted and rescued a Galgo (a Spanish Greyhound): Loki. Through Loki I got in touch with the circumstances in Spain and how these dogs are treated over there. Thousands of them are disposed of every year after the Hunting Season and when their owners see them as "no longer useful". So I began to take photos of my own dogs and posted pictures of them on Facebook.

My tool is my camera, a few flashes and the usual photographic stuff, my method is the chemistry between the dog and me and the unpredictable. I use almost exclusively black backgrounds in the studio and expose most of the pictures, so the result is the so-called LowKey effect. For me a fine method to direct the viewer of the image to the essential details. Today almost standard, the digital processing with many necessary and unnecessary corrections and distortions. I limit myself to the necessary, all on my own, because I do always prefer standing behind the camera and talking to the dogs, than only to sit behind the laptop. The achieved goal is to create the most technically perfect picture as possible during the photo shoot.

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