it's good to at least actually sense a natural inclination/disinclinationjust fully engaging with the thing while he was enthusiastic about it & able to concentrate. going where the energy wasreally what i am saying is remember that william eggleston plays synthesised piano also
just fully engaging with the thing while he was enthusiastic about it & able to concentrate. going where the energy was
really what i am saying is remember that william eggleston plays synthesised piano also
otm, for me. (with proviso that photography like writing is different practice for different people, can’t generalize, etc)
but yeah— for me, photography is v tied to & dependent upon subconsious/ mood/ impulse— being moved to seek/ look/ frame/ press the shutter for reasons that aren’t entirely intellectually known to you. (really conscious, carefully planned or forced photography is more likely just to look like photographic paradigms you know. of course all photographs will look like your paradigms, to a large extent, but if forced it's more likely just to be hollow imitation). so imo it’s key to stay in touch with inclination, mood, etc. (not necessarily in a self-aware way; you can be opaque/ numb to yourself yet still feel impulse to take photographs).
it’s a cliche, but in my experience v true that what you read (or write), listen to (or play), what you live & experience, informs your photography as much as anything photographic. e.g. pursuing your aesthetic pleasures (in any medium) & taking care & time to savor that pleasure— dwell in it (poem, painting, song, film, feeling), not necessarily analyze it.
i have more vivid memories of photographs i didn't take than of photographs i did take
chronology is tiring& pretty heavyi think
this is true too. dealing with this at the moment, i think.
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:58 (nine years ago) link
ps "photography is v tied to & dependent upon subconsious/ mood/ impulse" and chance
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 07:09 (nine years ago) link
chinavision did you ever share those photos you had in the book
― 龜, Thursday, 16 April 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
I think they're all on flickr in some form or another.
or good old http://ihardlyknowher.com/altairnouveau
I can't write much right now since I'm back in the office, ready for another slog of a day, but I appreciate the thinking and writing here by people who can express themselves better than I can.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
but yeah— for me, photography is v tied to & dependent upon subconsious/ mood/ impulse— being moved to seek/ look/ frame/ press the shutter for reasons that aren’t entirely intellectually known to you.
Definitely. When I know what I'm trying to do I'm usually disappointed with the results and (this is something I especially notice now when I'm painfully trying to fill up a paid-for Zenfolio site) while it's maybe "good enough" for Flickr and def fine for a quick fire up to Instagram/FB, I'm completely nonplussed by its mediocrity and lack of surprise months later and don't really want it to represent my work. Whatever that is.
I do take an awful lot of meh.
I like this one for the O-O-F woman under the pier.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8714/16954343847_947964297c_c.jpg
This appeals purely for verticals and backlit curves but everyone seems to like the fact that my children choose how to decorate my apartment and I have no control over it:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8754/16974067768_dbe75a022a_c.jpg
And this because the grubbiness of the sign makes me wonder whether the frozen yoghurt has some essence of sea bird in it...
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8684/16975582689_e5d2d8c033_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
evocative, like these v much. i also feel, like you, that my most "successful" photos tend to have a surplus something compelling in them, fascinating or absorbing the eye/ feeling, that's not the visual-thematic focus of the photograph (though may have connection to it, not necessarily). often something you only notice later, often something very small, prima facie inconsequential to the "meaning" of the photograph. a gleam of light, a strand of hair. maybe related to barthes idea of the "punctum" (as opposed to the "studium").
at some point i'll have to share some photos with you guys, the ilp crew. just have to get over or around, somehow, my weird pathological need for online privacy/ anonymity. i.e. get over myself.
loved your site (sight), chinavision
― drash, Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
I got an X100T for myself, and randomly had a couple of weddings to go to, so I decided to be the extra photographer for them:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8770/16422743984_1a5fdcdb3b_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8599/15947181683_147c3a6bf9_b.jpg
And then I just liked this one of my son Owen at Glen Canyon:https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7352/16368741755_63ecfffa1b_b.jpg
― schwantz, Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
great stuff schwantz - love the flare and unguarded moment in the first one, the sense of movement in the second and the starkness of the third - i'm a sucker for a landscape with a person in it
i love the x100 series so much
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 17 April 2015 08:50 (nine years ago) link
bizarro otm
― drash, Friday, 17 April 2015 09:13 (nine years ago) link
Thanks!
― schwantz, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
schwantz, those X100T photos are nice, especially the last one.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7642/17204617215_b8ed8cc6f1_z.jpg
― michaellambert, Sunday, 19 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Love the work here! This thread is always hugely inspiring. I've gotten out of the habit of posting new photos to Flickr because so much of what I shoot gets edited on iOS and uploaded to FB/Tumblr/etc.
Anyway: Flowers and demonstrations. Seoul's got it all these days.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8813/16890723780_962bd7d59b_c.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8701/17008670378_9b391a19e0_c.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8805/17008784968_5c568b18f2_c.jpg
― Millsner, Monday, 20 April 2015 05:29 (nine years ago) link
I like the colors in the demonstration pics.
― schwantz, Monday, 20 April 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
also like composition of last pic. fond of photographs in which you only see fragment of person's face (eg eyes, mouth) yet rich with expression. here you've got this black inhuman wall taking up most of the image (shields of institutional power) yet peeking out from behind you see faces/ eyes of bespectacled young men-- so young they look like boys-- human, anxious, fragile.
― drash, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
I like everything posted recently but those demo pics really have something.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 23 April 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
I've not posted in a while, had a year where I just didn't really do anything.
I hope this works...
1st one's Vienna, 2nd one's Ladybower Reservoir.[Removed Illegal Image][/url][/img][Removed Illegal Image][/url][/img]
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 23 April 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Oh well, that what i get for not posting for over a year...
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7689/17088618847_cf748d072a_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8826/16675818963_2aa44f1258_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8686/17088619337_7425e61c9e_z.jpg
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
Love all of those, especially the first.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
^yes. the light and shadow.
― drash, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link
thanks! still find that I'm forcing myself to work on photography rather than jumping into it lately, but so it goes.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
It's only a sky, but it's my sky. (I.e, the view from my flat when I get home from work; 135mm lens on a crop body)...
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8791/17263070241_c15a82f385_c.jpg
St Giles angles, reflections, glassy texture and non-texture...
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7642/17263213371_8f7810b000_c.jpg
Same place...
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8822/17077528709_4eb1f4989e_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Love that middle one!
― schwantz, Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jlH2OmA.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 3 May 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Lovely triptych
― 龜, Sunday, 3 May 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Yes! Always happy to see this thread bumped!
― michaellambert, Monday, 4 May 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― drash, Monday, 4 May 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
So much light this April. From everywhere.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8690/17371915511_ce3afc9d90_c.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8854/17372211655_f66cbd8f95_c.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8770/17346222996_6daac65b99_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Zoo with family yesterday: http://ow.ly/M5Fbq
― markers, Sunday, 10 May 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/wp1qb9ueustf5wy/c1314727.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/8yk1ss09ykomzg8/c146229.jpg
― drash, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
those are really nice. I like the blocks of color in the top one.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
thanks, chinavision (about time i posted something, to prove i am actual person who actually takes photographs sometimes)
― drash, Thursday, 14 May 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, good colours!
Oh, I bought myself a little camera. I couldn't resist. Fuji X-M1. My first day out with it...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8805/17033607133_4f66ee97d5_c.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8837/17031943974_77a2767a35_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Friday, 15 May 2015 10:50 (nine years ago) link
I've just recently felt like I'm emerging from a real period of drought and lack of inspiration that has lasted more than a year, London can be a really boring city to look at when you've been here 20 years.
I had a couple of days in Paris recently while my other half was at a work conference so I made a plan to visit as many of it's famous passages as I could, some were amazingly beautiful Belle Époque style arcades with fashionable galleries and little tearooms and some just had 20 barbers and a curry house, the grimy ones were more interesting to photograph by miles though.
This is Passage Caire which is the longest remaining one and is given over to clothes wholesalers mostly.
http://i60.tinypic.com/9tzrqh.jpghttp://i62.tinypic.com/o7ppvd.jpg
― MaresNest, Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
Couple more...
http://i57.tinypic.com/2vwwv3a.jpghttp://i60.tinypic.com/30ausjp.jpg
― MaresNest, Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:35 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pC0dILJ.jpg
― markers, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
WTF is that?! Looks cool...
― schwantz, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
I do a lot of digital manipulation of the photos I take. If you turn your head sideways, you’ll see all the busses lined up.
― markers, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Here’s one more, from yesterday:
http://i.imgur.com/xbfRgSq.jpg
― markers, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
I was in Shetland for work (briefly) a couple of weeks ago. Took and used my Fuji X10 for the first time in ages, quite happy with the results for once.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8855/18207529722_a1cf1898fc_b.jpg
Rest of the set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaellambert/sets/72157653604446212
― michaellambert, Thursday, 28 May 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Got to go to Yosemite last week. Tried to get some waterfall shots with longer exposures, but they blew out the highlights pretty badly.https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/461/18702202276_e5387e7e73_b.jpg
And a couple more, from Camp Mather in the evening:https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/379/18722893432_5243d94fcf_b.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/558/18727753745_a67459ec4e_b.jpg
More here.
― schwantz, Friday, 12 June 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Always a big fan of night photos like the one of the phone boxes.
― michaellambert, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Likewise. Nice series.
― Millsner, Saturday, 13 June 2015 06:38 (nine years ago) link
Still mostly using the Fuji but the Canon comes out for events:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8787/18071915848_860cb3b8f2_c.jpg
Back to the Fuji in the park:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/316/18064720213_56a1af28a9_c.jpg
And on the street:
https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7734/18214063096_5cab22606f_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 13 June 2015 09:14 (nine years ago) link
Great colors!
― schwantz, Saturday, 13 June 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
Same venue and almost the same angle as Michael's great pianist shot ^
http://i57.tinypic.com/14mewc7.jpg
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 08:14 (nine years ago) link
Oh that's ace.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 26 June 2015 06:34 (nine years ago) link
Took a few shots around my neighborhood on Sunday.
A few:https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/535/19111384348_9dc0cfca8e_b.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/481/19272714156_5b1c38097c_b.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/545/19111151838_760e07e759_b.jpg
― schwantz, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Love the preacher!
Took the Canon + L-zoom to Barcelona, but also the little Fuji + 35mm prime for night-time shots around El Born. The former (#3 below) are touristy (but necessary!), the latter (#1 and #2) have more feel...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/365/19176488200_f621331734_c.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/282/18716281704_be713d7845_c.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/521/19339657716_cbfd97f1c9_c.jpg
― Michael Jones, Friday, 3 July 2015 12:31 (nine years ago) link
a few from a trip to california:
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/11536515_10153359088665638_8126497467739256129_o_zpsjiaetk8f.jpghttp://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/11713673_10153387535495638_1411029709739573402_o_zpsvmo4n7jm.jpghttp://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/10927855_10153359088625638_5750145689712179607_o_zpsgh54pbck.jpghttp://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/11215188_10153359089145638_4187837694260201525_n_zpsveis4whq.jpghttp://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/11425148_10153361207040638_526357701484102067_o_zpsxhtfhesy.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 13 July 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! Yeah, that's salt. I'm using the X100T (no detachable lens). I love it. Only drawbacks are:
1. Stuck with one lens. Makes the camera small, but it's pretty wide-angle. 2. Battery life isn't great. I bring an extra battery, and it can charge via USB so you can use one of those phone backup batteries to charge it in a pinch.
I'm sure there are other ones (esp. Vs. a high-end camera), but I've been very happy with it. If I had to do it again, I might have gone with the X-T1/10 so I could get some different lenses.
― schwantz, Sunday, 6 December 2015 00:49 (eight years ago) link
phone dilettante here, considering purchase. virginia in october: http://imgur.com/a/EAlyM
― home organ, Monday, 21 December 2015 06:43 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/X1zBcyj.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/UmpKa76.jpg
― 50 Shades of Santa (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 December 2015 07:40 (eight years ago) link
That second one is really pretty (first one good too)!
― schwantz, Monday, 21 December 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
Another from the Scotland road trip. I'm going back in march, Doing the NC500 this time, I hope i do it Justicehttps://farm6.staticflickr.com/5622/24009354715_0b612a8499_c.jpgNeist Point
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 27 December 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
An alleyway at the Glasgow Cross end of Argyle Street.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1676/23416787743_e4d18451e0_z.jpg
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
A few shots from the studio:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1577/24079241219_a3bfab0320_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1686/24151685280_824cd98f5c_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1560/24427257656_960bb3e373_b.jpg
― schwantz, Saturday, 30 January 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link