photo-breezing

Wedding at the weekend. Full frame + f/4 zoom and crop frame + fast portrait, but I just kept swapping lenses cos I wanted to use the FF *all the time*. I've just been spoiled by it (particularly by the immensely flattering hi-res LCD).

Will take me all week to weed/pick/process/review but there's not much I enjoy more. Hopefully at least three more this year.

Maybe not that exciting to anyone but me, but someone at Dundee City Archive has started uploading lots of old photos of the city on a Flickr account and I've been finding it fascinating - whole streets in there that were torn down in the modernising zeal of the local council from the middle of last century onwards, continuing to this day with the latest rounds of regeneration. Not to say that it was the wrong thing to do, just that it's brought it home to me how much more the city has changed than I thought it had. I grew up in a village outside a town 20 miles down the road that I suspect has changed very little in the same time.

Here's the whole lot:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/118069284@N05

Here are a few I liked:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/13625976114_436b342d77.jpg
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2874/13535668883_40f717c044.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/13756596403_b9199fc0d0.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/13756457735_af7af8449b.jpg
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3696/13718548553_118ee22500.jpg
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3734/13716379235_6e18844d05.jpg

Love those. That pedestrianised parade of shops is by the railway station, right? I visited Dundee a couple of times about 25 years ago.

Second last shot? Yeah, that's the Overgate, which has since been completely redeveloped again so looks nothing like that. My earliest memories of Dundee are getting the train through with my mum and gran and visiting the numerous 99p shops in there. The station is a few minutes walk away but not far.

I think there was an Our Price there in 1989 or so. I knew a girl who lived on Roseangle, while she was doing her Masters. We went to Oblomov's on Nethergate and climbed to the top of the Law at sunrise. There should be photos somewhere but they may be lost...

my sister lives in rural nebraska and sent me these cellpwn pics of an old red piano that appeared on the edge of a cornfield along her commute a few weeks ago; almost makes me wanna hop in the car and do the 8 hour drive so i can take my own

http://i.imgur.com/ZJFvOzz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XyuupqO.jpg

always hyped to have a new red thing to photograph

hey ilp-
i just started watching this, william klein's series of short films about photographers, walking through waves of photojournalism/artists/& then conceptual photographers in ten minute episodes. it's so good! pretty much all subject-narrated montages of work by like sophie calle, duane michals, baldessari (who i never see without feeling like i have unduly shortchanged him my whole life by not thinking him my #1 guy), tillmans, &c&c&c. i looked & i think some are available on vimeo or whatever. but it's really good. bitesize. for while you eat.

How do people here use Instagram? If they do?

At first, I treated it like a photographic tweet - snaps with the iPhone, instantly shared. Now I wi-fi pics off the 6D to my phone, or even download LR-processed 6D pics from Flickr to my phone, square-crop, perhaps a filter, and then share. It's no longer an instantaneous thing for me, more a sort of short-term curatorial thing - something selected from my general, daily shooting with the proper camera, uploaded to Instagram every few hours.

I realise there's now a class of images which I wouldn't bother working up properly for the permanent online record of Flickr, or share on Facebook, but seem ideal for Instagram.

http://instagram.com/p/oSu1X3Lwt4/
http://instagram.com/p/oQBxa7rwnY/
http://instagram.com/p/oHYP7Lrwhf/

(Apologies if they don't work; I logged out and tested the links but I'm never sure...)

(And that was literally the first time I've logged into the web version of Instagram on a PC. They all look crap! Jokin')

something i imagine sometimes but which i'm generally not equipped to really render in my imagination is how nice it would be to have a subscription to aperture magazine

i just can't even imagine
like as far as i get is it's delivered & comes through an expansive actual letter window in a doorway, in a house i don't own, & then i collapse into this comfy minimal subdued charcoal couch to read it & then i black out

in case anyone still wants a mirror tube:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vario-Spiegel-Vorsatz-Mirrored-camera-lens-tube-special-effects-/310970741092

In London for a couple of days so popped along to The Photographers Gallery to check out the Deutsche Borse finallists. The prints of Richard Mosse's 'The Enclave' look incredible, they do the images justice in a way I don't think any magazine or website could - the only way i have seen them so far. Managed to behave myself in the shop (more photobooks than I've ever seen in one place!) and only bought Robert Capa In Colour. There were a few other tempting things, though.

There's an Edgar Martins exhibition on I'd like to see, but record shopping on Berwick St has left me with too little time to get there and then back to where I've to meet friends. Having a pint instead.

Realised my error, it appears 'The Enclave' is a film and the photos are 'Infra'. Either way, very good.

http://shophamburgereyes.com/collections/frontpage/products/internet-k-hole-vol-3

http://i.imgur.com/vI8y9j9.png

shitty cellphone camera pics >> film photography >>>>>>>>>>>>>> digital camera pics

recently at least

There's a hierarchy?

I was just admiring these game boy camera photos actually

http://i.imgur.com/LajEYUC.jpg

http://www.ironicsans.com/2014/05/new_york_city_in_2000_photogra.html

(Wow what an intentionally awful website name)

http://milkmade.com/articles/2718-Milk-Gallery-Presents-The-Magnum-Contact-Sheet-Exhibition#.U7aqxo1dWXj

it's like just as i'm finally getting to grips with latin i glimpse a teenager sexing demotically, &

oops, sexting

i see people do cool things with film all the time, & i'm still responsive to it. i am watching a lot of video, recently, old video tapes, & it's crazy how kind of powerful & different the images seem, now, just by virtue of having aged a little, betraying their age, blearily affiliating with your memories. & film is obviously that too; you can still use it without it being a statement on the medium, & otherwise you can use it for what it means for there to be grain, &c. but it feels like an established language. this is what china was talking about, forever ago, i think, about people going to shoot pictures of cars, because old cars look like old pictures. alleyways look like films, ripped posters like walker evans, &c&c&c. i see just the most everyday digital pictures & it's like they just have so much less weight. there aren't the parameters. some of the film photography i respond to is the kind we talked about, a little, like a lot of light, some bright surface catching natural-seeming neon colour, a girl with dyed hair or whatever. but even when i'm chasing those kinds of pictures i feel like it's because they're a kind of picture. like i learnt it. i don't know that that exists, yet, with digital, & i feel like there's so much more space to have the picture be an actual kinda slightly provocative picture, not a successful or unsuccessful variation upon an existing formula.

Not sure where our discussion of cropping occurred but I checked out the Magnum Contact Sheet exhibition & found this:

http://i.imgur.com/Z9Pv8q2.png

http://i.imgur.com/eBHdD2B.jpg

rewarding evening cruise through chinavision's photos, everything still fresh & busy

https://fstoppers.com/film/leica-loves-film-announces-new-m-type-127-fully-mechanical-35mm-film-rangefinder-37486

^ i do kinda half-interestedly cruise things like this but the price always feels like such a weird caveat. like it's almost not even a real thing it's so prohibitive.

meanwhile:

http://i.imgur.com/9TmnqBF.png

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/inside_out/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Watkins_Peaches_sharp.sm_.jpg

carleton watkins

i wonder whether the lens redesign accidentally committed them to privileging medium- & large-format square photography in their front page content

Hah is the top story always a square crop

ready for fresh boring playground photographs every single day

On a tangent, surprised I've not done this before but after "a few" beers on Saturday night managed to knock the quality setting on my camera from RAW to basic JPEG. Took a load of photos yesterday before coming home and noticing what had happened. It's the kind of thing that's inconsequential but will bother me.

i believe the pros call that "raw dogging"

I did consider googling that at work.

Ray K. Metzker :(

yeah. rewarding google image search right now.

hey how is everybody doing in their photo lives. what's good.

Nothing is going on in my photo life right now :( but check this out http://instagram.com/p/oTK4a2whRa/

hey that's good
i like it now that instagram is less a thing about filters & is more a kind of diary

schlump I'm really into this tag rn http://www.modeschina.com/tagged/heartbreakclub

hey i had forgotten about this site

http://31.media.tumblr.com/ba04406ef621ef708bbd534e1958df88/tumblr_nd2kz2a9HF1s48vuqo1_500.jpg

these feel like watching neighbouring sounds, to me-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeDOSDOs2X0

being in the city at night & it really feeling unlit

Papa Cuppa
1 year ago
in reply to bv2112

This is capitalism

George Ricardo
1 year ago
in reply to Taylor Productions

sometimes random images say it all.

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/inside_out/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Watkins_Peaches_sharp.sm_.jpg

― schlump, Monday, October 6, 2014 4:54 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ban this sick filth

http://www.volkerheinze.de/files/gimgs/13_eggleston.jpg

That's William Eggleston by Volker Heinze, right? As much as I love that image I can't help but think of this when I see it:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--jQv3VBSV--/196fuarapyylmgif.gif

http://i.imgur.com/NSj7ban.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gs22GJv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wncEsGq.jpg

http://www.julienmagre.fr/

That's William Eggleston by Volker Heinze, right?

yes! i didn't know it, or him, until yesterday, & i'm really taken. for what it's worth, in case it maybe saves you from banderas flashbacks, it's described by heinze as being eggleston asleep in a restaurant, in berlin in '85, so maybe needn't be understood as such a moment of ecstasy. it's a really beautiful, rich, layered picture i think, the overbearing red glow unavoidably intertextual feeling.

i really am not a portraiture person but his work is strong, i think. hung up on some of his ahnung series, too-

http://www.volkerheinze.de/files/gimgs/3_periskop.jpg
http://www.volkerheinze.de/files/gimgs/3_olymp1.jpg