http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4150/5486972399_73b1bcdb78_b.jpg
agreed, plax making me really want to shoot color!
― dayo, Monday, 16 January 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
Everything's looking fantastic here... agreed wrt plax: the clothesline picture is great too.and I really dig this one from dayo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idiotcervantes/6705088945/
These are pretty much my recent two pictures:http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6704020203_a2a371d1b0_z.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6697727357_2d74636be8_z.jpg
I'm sort of becoming increasingly unsure of why in the world I'm spending so much time putting pictures online though. Anyone else?Thinking I should maybe just take pictures, get them scanned, and like work on them out of view. Or just do *something else* with them.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 16 January 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I mean that's why I'm getting into (or trying to get into) darkroom printing - remember reading something by frank where he said "always print your pictures. they should live" which ping pongs around in my head
― dayo, Monday, 16 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah gotta at least get myself a printer
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 16 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
agreed wrt plax: the clothesline picture is great too.
yes. & another: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5292/5493313659_33d4e9a8ba_b.jpg. i think this reminds me of like eggleston's dolls heads on a car bonnet, in terms of seeming like some weird dispatch from nowhere i have ever been.
i might chronicle this in some kind of private how-do-i-shot-book thread as it progresses but me & a friend are maybe going to put some of ours together, in a book, of some description. i was reading, i think about emmet gowin but maybe not?, & it mentioned that his first thing was a book he made six copies of. & photos having 'object value', & existing in a quantifiable form, feels sorta attractive right now, even as i work through the questions of 'what is the additional value of objects' (in comparison to them existing on the internet, should people end up looking at them) & 'does anyone need a book', etc.
good phots, also, cv. someone who is busy walking & smoking & reading is probably a sensible & oblivious target if you are gonna shoot on the street. there is a lot going on there.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
one day I will stop taking photos of lonely people
― dayo, Monday, 16 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Some sheep took an interest in the setting up of a tripod.http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6709439227_9916b7be2d_z.jpgWatcha Doin' by carljgodwin, on FlickrWhile setting up for this shot. I know it's another sunset shot, but i can't help myself. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6709447359_bd4889527e_z.jpgSunset by carljgodwin, on Flickr
― not_goodwin, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
those sheep are awesome btw. the light is edward hopperishly directional.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
A+ sheep.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwAc-ZBpx0&ob=av2e
would like my entire life to be shaded in colors made pastel by fluorescent lights
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
lol try again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yez4lXjBI
dayo have you ever heard of patrick mimran? i hadnt till my little brother gave me a book of his photographs for my birthday:
http://mimran.com/
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
no I haven't! he has a lot of obsessions
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
this is the first time ive looked @ his site, its kind of a letdown compared to this book i have
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
maybe one day I'll get a chance to look at his book! btw looked at all three aloha fridays, great stuff!
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
thank you, dayo. i am pleased to hear you finally looked at them.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
I never ordered mine :(
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
sb'd u for that.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
lol. I have like 10 photography books still in the wrapper ;(
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
I find that like, 10-20 pictures in 'serious' mode are the most I can do at a time without needing a break.
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
are they still available? xp
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
i've been basically defying zine convention and just endlessly reprinting them so its ok
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
sb'd you for decreasing the collector's value of my copies
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh man my attending just took me on a tour of an awesome spot to shoot on the way home from a home visit. totally know what i'm doing with my saturday morning
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Friday, 20 January 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
you guys are all super nice.
while printing photographs is like, yeah i wish i could afford to do it more often, still its nice to think of it the other way, like what do you get from showing it on the screen. i remember seeing some agnes martin paintings in a slideshow at a talk by an art historian and realising that they made more sense seen that way than in a book because there you can't see that inner luminescence but the slide was able to approximate something of it. i realise this is a different example, but still, photographs are all about light, except when they're y'know, about shadows. but like cigarette smoke curling through morning light, or the pattern from a venetian blind spreading out across the floor. melanie schiff is a photographer i like, i'm pretty sure i've mentioned her on this before. she does these still lifes that are all about light in this way. i like the way they burn on the screen.
http://kavigupta.com/images/KaviGuptaGallery000182.jpg
― judith, Friday, 20 January 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
k, really went for my best Eggleston with this one:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6728677191_179b56be03_z.jpg
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 20 January 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
^^^really like that. also superior WI is just teeming with egglestonian potential
this is duluth, via iphone
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6737662557_8d40117b08_o.jpg
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
btw judith yr photos are really gorgeous!
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
I like mooching around churches, especially when I have a legitimate non-spiritual reason for being there... Anyway, more objects in low light innit*...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6737984699_eb1cf6e6b8_z.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6737954761_2ac6cdec77_z.jpg
(* - just can't bring myself to post photos of friends in here... )
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Such ego! It had to be principal, huh?Out of curiosity, have you been touching film much at all lately?
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
That's daughter #2's hand!
Film? Not much lately. Ran a roll of Velvia through the EOS 10 Jun-Aug last year, last used the IX7 APS in September, haven't shot any medium format since last spring and no B&W (Neopan 400CN) since last summer. They're just sitting there, gathering dust at the moment. Keep telling myself that once it's light in the evenings again I'll get out in the garden with the Bronica...
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6785097071_13ac0b6abf_z.jpg
hey
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 30 January 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Monday, 30 January 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/62636c26.jpghttp://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/c1a7119e.jpghttp://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/7876ac64.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 30 January 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
china that's awesome, it's like you perfected your aesthetic! it is the chinavision ur-text
what did you take those shots w, grady? they're so luminous and granular
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 30 January 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
thanks!
they're shot with vivitar ultra wide & slim i got at the thrift shop for $4.http://i.imgur.com/FfQZb.jpg
cross-processed provia 400x
first 2 are Zagreb, the 3rd is Budapest
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 30 January 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol I was thinking something very similar
it'd be like a dayo picture of a middle aged man in HK looking at his open wallet, reflected in a banks storefront window
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny cuz it's an old picture from last summer that I think at the time I thought was "too obvious" but now I have no more hangups about obvious. obvious is good.going through old pictures is surprising sometimes.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
that is a cool camera. is provia slide film?? i've used it in the past & can't remember. lovely anyway.
loool
i think i have got a couple of things back that wandered into dayo territory recently, this is my big city at night shot
it's funny cuz it's an old picture from last summer that I think at the time I thought was "too obvious" but now I have no more hangups about obvious. obvious is good.
i am sorta agreeing w/this but based on totally different standards; going back to that thing about what-to-take-a-photo-of, there are things i shoot that feel like they're in over-familiar photographic territory. & i don't think yr textural ny building-material 21c streetsprawl pics qualify! i got this back recently, & know i've shot similar pictures whenever i've walked past a picturesque bird on a lamppost, but i kinda nailed it (thank you cloud), & that sorta beats the other feelings i have about what the picture even is.
going through old pictures is surprising sometimes.
for sure. there might be some stretch of time in the future when i'm back at my folks' place, where all of my regrettable teenage negatives are, & i'd sorta be interested to scan a lot of them, just to see how they come out. sometimes things are v different just out of the context, either of the film/of memory/or of whatever expectations you had at the time that encroach on seeing a picture. i took this a couple of years ago & never really liked it because it's too grey, but it looks okay to me now, as a pic at least.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
is provia slide film??
yes. its pretty reliable for shooting in low light and pushing it to 1600. personally, i like shooting it w/ a flash and cross processing:
http://i.imgur.com/lQlTZ.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
oh nice. i am on pretty rocky ground w/pushing film, though i feel a lil safer w/b&w. i actually just googled the camera you mentioned, i know i was asking for tips a while ago, but i should really buy something little with a flash to carry around.
^^ great/confusing photo, btw; painted bgrnds in your pics at the gift that keeps on giving
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
btw the vivitar ultra wide & slim isn't made anymore and they go for stupid amounts of money on eBay, but these are supposed to be identiacal:
http://www.fourcornerstore.com/collections/superheadz-cameras/products/black-slim-devil
all the b&w stuff i posted last week i shot on a weird no-name knock-off i found on eBay. it has the same lens but it has a small flash in it-- i cant shoot daytime w/ it tho because the exposure is too long
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
"obvious is good" is meant mostly as an admonishment to myself btw. I have a habit of talking myself out of pictures with pretty upfront 'hooks' sometimes and it's good to be reminded that, yes, it's not a bad thing to actually shoot the big obvious thing in the scene, put it front and center, make it look nice, etc.like sometimes there's a 'big thing' happening or present, and I can convince myself that the skillful thing to do is to take pictures of anything but that. which is just stupid. take the picture of the 'big thing'. too much second guessing and talking myself out of a picture because I'm worried someone else would take it.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/W5gXy.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
whoa
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
warning: picture of a dead body
― dayo, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
quite a picture to follow that post
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i didnt take that, i was posting it in response to your post, sorry.
fyi: http://www.petapixel.com/2011/03/29/debate-over-fabienne-cherisma-photo-rekindled-after-award-given/
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
my post leaves a lot of room for amendments and second guessing, and the situation in the picture initiates a lot of that. there are a lot of degrees of the 'big thing' or the obvious subject or the thing that everyone else if photographing, and they don't all need to be treated the same way. my anecdote refers more to the way that I'm trying to cut back on the critical impulse that actually prevents me from taking a picture because some spectacle seems just too clear and has to be resisted. I don't really think that any potential picture is so apparent that it shouldn't be taken; that's an issue for editing.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
editing, judgement, whether or not it provokes a feeling of queesiness etc.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link