photo-breezing

yeah wow

hey i have a really boring question
is there a lab in manhattan that can quickly turn around e-6 processing? like 24h or something resembling that but stretched across weekend closure
i'm way deep in the b&h site but it's like being in the store, everything is untouchable at arm's length

also if not what is manhattan for

Duggan

Well something that begins with D

http://www.duggal.com/contact/locations-hours/

Their website seems very intimidating but hopefully they do walk ins? Maybe dress as John Divola first?

dress like the unabomber

website definitely super intimidating

"hello i would like to process one roll of film" strongly redolent of every time i have withdrawn <$5 at the bank

but thanks

i am going to use their Live Chat facility to ask whether i can drop in

I think my lil' place in Chinatown does E-6 too but I've never gotten it done there

It's called Yardley, the cool thing is that I was going through some old family photos from 30 years ago, and my parents had gotten a couple of rolls developed at the same place =)

Hey, so I’m not a good photographer, but I’ve been taking pictures, sifting through them, editing them, and posting some of the results to Instagram (follow me if you aren’t already): http://ow.ly/M5Fbq

Anyway, right now I need to get better at the fundamental task of taking a good picture. A lot of the stuff I take doesn’t come out looking good. Basically, I’ll head out and shoot a bunch of photos in VSCO Cam. I don’t put much care into the actual shooting process, which is bad, but I also don’t have much technique, which is also bad. I should probably get a book or read a blog post or talk to someone or something. Anyway, eventually, I’ll do some post-processing, and I’ll get to the point where I’ve post one or several photos from a “shoot,” but even then I often delete stuff I’ve posted. A lot of photos have been deleted from IG! More than are up there now. But yeah. I need to get better and will keep working at it. I’ve been trying out various iOS photo apps too, but when it comes down to it I need to go to more new places, take more pictures, and practice more, I guess. And maybe read up a little bit more.

markers i really like your instagram & sensibility, good stuff

much of what you describe don't sound like symptoms of being a bad photographer, just being a photographer

i'm so unable & unqualified to give "advice" (so don't listen to me). guess reading can't hurt & may help (depending on what your read), but imo from my own experience it's more important to look look look at photography & other art (painting, film), especially pursue trail of things you feel inchoate connection to

obv don't just look at contemporary internet photography (though it's good to look at that too; among other things to get a sense of what the contemporary cliches are)

i'm a little suspicious of/ uncomfortable with notion of "a good picture" (e.g. as defined by how-to books with rules/ recipes for good composition)

maybe reading good photography criticism more helpful than reading photography technique? tbh not sure about that

reading about "what makes a good picture" may be good thing, but imo more important to absorb this through osmosis & intuition & practice

i'm curious what other ilpers might say

i have no credentials or anything but to me, markers, your stream totally seems like you're on the right track! not just blowing smoke, but i mean, you're shooting stuff that draws your eye. so i already feel like that's cool. that sounds like some kind of lame generic summer camp counselor advice but i honestly think it's true. the times i get the most alienated from photography are where i get caught up in what i think it should look like, and the times i get the most joy out of it are when i embrace what i want it to do. that's also of course where the challenges and frustration come in, due to the gap between what i want to do, and what i'm capable of doing with my skills/instincts/time/etc. but that's the hobby of it i guess.

what are you dissatisfied about with your shots? tbh i have no idea what it's like shooting with an iphone, or what kind of controls one has, or how one gets better or anything like that. i also think i'd probably be extremely stumped working from a square crop, though obviously tons of people do fantastic stuff with it. it's just not my native language and i'd feel adrift, compositionally. i can do it when cropping down from a 4x6 negative but shooting as a square... it's weird. maybe another way of putting this is that getting started with photography, the one biggest thing i got taught was composing through the lens, learning to 'see' pictures, and your field of vision is not square. it's not 4x6 through a 50mm lens either, but the latter is closer i think, and obviously the ergonomics of an SLR viewfinder make it a little more natural to move back and forth between seeing things and shooting. i'm just rambling though and none of this is to say that your compositions jump out at me as having a problem with them!

why are there no good photo blogs

what is this

I like this: http://carlgunhouse.blogspot.com/

ooo

hey by the way, cv:

i wondered, when you were talking about finding it harder to gravitate toward photographs, taking them/tending to them, &c

did something else take its place?

are you robert frank in the seventies putting the gun down?

do you make gifs now?

I've been more productive making music, mostly. Which is not bad because when I was taking a lot of pictures I felt guilty about not making music.

I think it's hard to work on two things at once, but that's just me.

though work has something to do with it too unfortunately

cv just so you know I"ve been shouting the joy of seeing your photos in a printed book to anybody who will listen

Your reaction to it was very inspiring actually... Part of the reason I'm making myself do more photo work!

thanks drash and Doctor Casino! i appreciate that you guys took the time out to write all that out. i'm still having a frustrating time. today it's, in part, with instagram's(?) compression, which is fucking up my shit and making it look crappy after i've spent more time than most people getting the photo to look decent. it's making it look like i don't know what i'm doing, which to an extent i don't. anyway, instagram is prob not the best place for me to post all this stuff, but i'm doing all of this for instagram in a lot of ways, so i guess it does make sense. still, seeing people post garbage and get a lot more attention than i do is annoying as all fuck

getting, rather

still, seeing people post garbage and get a lot more attention than i do is annoying as all fuck

This is the iron law of the Internet, but maybe especially of photography on the internet. I feel your pain.

It's also a bit weird seeing one of your own photos getting found by someone else and getting a lot of love all over tumblr, but only discovering so by chance. The second time it happened they'd cropped the original. Included a link back to my Flickr though. And it's nice when people like something.

Particularly weird since Flickr's such a ghost town since the redesign, I sort of forget I even have photos up, and the possibility of anybody finding or liking them, and then you discover that some kinda random shot has gotten dozens of re-tumbles or whatever. Flattering I guess, but also strangely alienating.

risingtensions has some great photos up on her personal blog http://stephdavidson.tumblr.com/

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

http://i.imgur.com/2NuS7Cd.jpg

^agree

(also, wasn't acquainted with risingtensions; thank you)

steph davidson is way cool

meanwhile takashi:

http://36.media.tumblr.com/fc75dc4878b75e25b15e0a09b2729d93/tumblr_noxakcYtBx1qe50hoo1_1280.jpg

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/q-and-a-liu-heung-shing-on-the-new-shanghai-center-of-photography/

This is cool as hell

this was cool btw

i kinda don't even necessarily want to drag our cool photo treehouse around to ~considering~ it, as Hot Photographic Topic, but the parts of this that respond to/are dictated by an emerging chinese market for photography are weird, i think. like lucrative art fair photography sales. but it's super cool if a city gets an ICP out of it. also hyped to see eggleston go china. he was just in ... brazil, i feel like.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/10/world/asia/north-korea-photos-video.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

i love the new york times

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2015/06/09/world/asia/north-korea-ss-slide-V2X8/north-korea-ss-slide-V2X8-jumbo.jpg

Topical Breezings:

- i have a postcard of this roger mayne picture of sandra blow - i can't find a digital version that gets its texture - but i look at it a lot & it has the qualities i like in a photograph (or a portrait), i think-

http://40.media.tumblr.com/9f2a3ef02e896ef9f096d0b4ee5f5f5e/tumblr_nbgckeGAf51qzlg5xo1_400.jpg

- & thinking of this i think i have wasted my life holding the camera still, i like blur, it's so emotional, it breaks my heart, what have i been doing, i'm ruined

- like i think my hi-iso (colour) shitty-cellphone pictures are more-satisfying-when-backlit to me than my colour film pictures, right now, to me, somehow equivalating the liveliness of grainy colour slide images in an abstract way more than standard colour negative film does

- &, iii., hey, i am borrowing the friedlander family phots book from the library, it's great, like a kind of tom-waits-&-kath-brennan cousin to nick nixon's brown sisters-

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

blur <3! are, bure, boke in general (can be) <3. easier to think of examples in b&w but <3 in color too

may be last person on earth who still uses film for street/ night/ color, so get a lot of it— powdery grain (suffusing the dark), smears & splotches & specters of of color

it’s one reason i’m still attached to film but as you say, film’s not necessary. sense of fugitive glimpse, evanescence, fragility, flaw, abstraction, tenderness, ever disintegrating materiality in grain or pixel. cf those rinko kawauchi cell phone pics

also reason to go back & look at past “outtakes”: stimes set aside pic that’s (lamentably) underexposed/ grainy/ out of focus/ blurred, but keep looking & it sticks, has its own charge (though important & stimes not easy to distinguish this from attachment to what pic ‘cd/wd/shd have been’ if not for flaw)

at yr suggestion sought out friedlander book too, it is great, adds to & changes my appreciation of lf (also now in love with maria friedlander)

itt crude ILP muse-off between major 20th century street-shooter spouses

wd nominate among others

mary frank & june leaf
eleanor callahan
lella boubat

edith gowin, vivian nee meyerowitz, soames leiter, honourary shout out to the women of women are beautiful

yoko araki

http://videodrome-xl.blogautore.repubblica.it/wp-content/blogs.dir/353/files/nippon/sentimental-journey-winter-journey-1.jpg

wow yeah otm
incidentally everything i see of araki's lately i love. his flowers in the nineties. he is one of those guys i/you grow into i think.

+++ i looked through & regrettably cannot justify buying this today. looks interesting. like for the writing mainly

he is one of those guys i/you grow into i think

i think this may be right

the nude/bondage pics overshadow & distort reception of the totality of his work

the only araki books i own/really know are yoko & chiro (his cat) related, <3 & heartbreaking

that painful tender focus on life/love/death/mortality—

in that context, bondage pics themselves have different valence, meaning, feeling

did i ever post this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6HQVGHIQAABr_g.jpg:large

& yeah exactly. it's like w/ georgia o'keeffe or somebody, the secret richness & dexterity of artists who have one Thing that circulates sorta ubiquitously

those morning sky photographs are real beautiful i think

http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC67331.jpg

also hey i am mad at myself i left christine furuya gossle off our muse index

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c9/90/f4/c990f493ccb07a446e7430fbeb3d4b51.jpg

also while we are talking about everything hey guess what this is finally coming soon

http://ep.yimg.com/ay/artbook/william-eggleston-the-democratic-forest-2.gif

This ten-volume set containing more than 1,000 photographs is drawn from a body of 12,000 pictures made by Eggleston in the 1980s. Following an opening volume of work in Louisiana, the ensuing volumes cover Eggleston's travels from his familiar ground in Memphis and Tennessee out to Dallas, Pittsburgh, Miami and Boston, the pastures of Kentucky and as far as the Berlin Wall. The final volume leads the viewer back to the South of small towns, cotton fields, the Civil War battlefield of Shiloh and the home of Andrew Jackson in Tennessee.

every time i've sat in a library looking through the other expanded series books it's been like this beautiful eye test

idk if that modes guy still reads this but fan by rian dundon came out http://www.modesvu.com/post/121831734636/fan-a-book-by-rian-dundon-essays-by-jonathan

had not seen that araki quote, thanks for posting it

little book "chiro love death" closes with long series of sky photographs

this is finally coming soon

!!!!!!!!!<3<3<3<3<3

hey dan, still here from time to time :) interested to hear what you think about the book.