what do you see like: 2012

XA always seems to underexpose a bit, but you can trick it with the ASA selector.

This is what I see like in 2012, btw (other photos I've been putting up lately are all from the past):

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6661317289_f2797a2b18_z.jpg

ooh, that's a good one!

Thanks! It's all that winter light.

gonna come back to the post above but just wanna register upon reading that the idea of you wrapping up an object in an envelope & writing a url on the front is blowing my mind, it feels like the future and the past all at once

Yup it's a clue that you only ever hear guys talking about their lenses when taking pictures of, like, brick walls, and not when talking about, like, great photographs.

I don't have a P&S, but I've had a Canonet QL17 forever, a Kodak Retinette (scale-focus 35mm) I found in my great-grandmother's stuff from Canada, and I just bought a Hexar AF off Craigslist.

The AF is interesting - it's big (pretty much the same size and weight as my X100), but freakishly quiet (even w/o turning on silent mode) and the fixed lens is basically a copy of a previous-generation Leica 35mm Summicron.

need to stop reading TOP because via them I know this is in stock:

http://www.steidlville.com/books/892-Emmet-Gowin-Photographs.html

and I think it incldes

http://learn.michenerartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Nancy-Danville-Gowin.jpg

so I have to get it

oh wow
did you ever see those Rene Burri photographs he took, at a school teaching deaf-mute* kids:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qVJIz0b96_8/Seh_rG2pzrI/AAAAAAAAAKk/hriWfQHDLY4/s1600/burri.jpg

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1084/1414544289_962ec96e36_z.jpg

*occurs to me here i'm not sure whether this is in any way an archaic term, as is sometimes the case, so just apologies if i'm miswording

those gowin photos look amazing.

thanks for the point & shoot testament everyone. i can see the appeal, my friend gets a lot out of one. i have never really had access to auto-focus or depth of field which minimises its importance, & i am sometimes ruing the blurry shots i've taken, so maybe i should go somewhere in that direction sometime. i like being able to take photos real quick. the argument against lens caps.

schlump the om-1 wasn't fully winding all the time on one wind, needed to take two sometimes. I sent it to www.zuiko.com but dunno if that's an option for you, you split time between the pond is that right?

ty for this - hadn't occurred to me to get mine done (& it's a much nicer prospect than retiring it, we have bonded) (my camera was my mom's, bought just after my sis was born, in 1981), though i know a guy vaguely-locally who services, etc. so may look up zuiko. i'm in the uk, uh huh, though could swing & envisage times at which usps will be at my disposal.

http://teenagefilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Iggy-and-the-Stooges-8.jpg

belongs in the stooges thread i guess but these are real interesting

man what a beautiful photo

seriously i keep looking at it, the girl's hair on the left, the stripes. ty for emmet gowin, dayo, i can believe i haven't heard of him bc i'm not a great historian but he's amazing, his nudes (i think mainly of one woman) are incredible. also love this sam fentress portrait of him:

http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2009/10/21/pages/2069/LIVE.Gowin_Fentress.jpg

Lightroom 4 Beta is out today

one from 2011, one from 2012:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6489175149_d4125868d4_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6682263427_bcceba1c91_z.jpg

they're great. i like the hand in the second pic, just by the sleeve of the iphone guy; it's like one of those comic book frames in which the artist has drawn their hand or pencil tip to draw your attention somewhere.

huh, didn't even notice that! first thing that stood out to me was "H-A-T-E".

I didn't notice the "hate" on the hand until scanning either, as it turns out.

when you noticed that it perfectly jived with your identically tattooed knuckles, amid your hands delicate adjustments to the placement of the negatives

here are a couple of photos from a month ago, of floral things. i never really used to post photos itt but it's nice that we all do different stuff, i like the comparison.

thinking about going for the zuiko camera overhaul btw, dayo, i haven't figured it out totally yet but i like the idea of getting my om-1 back.

schlump, fwiw I think the zuiko.com guy is the most respected repairman left in the world on olympus cameras, ~keeps the flame alive~ etc.

if you need a liason here in america to handle your stuff lmk

may have linked to this before but a great interview with EG

http://bombsite.com/issues/58/articles/2012

those rene burri pics are wonderful. looks like he was shooting from the hip for the second one though? wonder if those were snuck

i saw those exhibited a while back; iirc it was his first magazine assignment, or maybe one that made his name. 'assignments', or being a photographer in any sort of acknowledged/professional/journalistic capacity, probably has a lot of weird dynamics wrt how open you are about shooting, i imagine. i guess it goes back to that thing about how you should handle (/"wield") a camera & what relationship people have w/someone in the room who has a camera - it seeming established that you're there shooting, it not being too surprising or distracting, etc - all of this came up with the life essay upthread about the doctor, too.

if you need a liason here in america to handle your stuff lmk

ty so much; starting to think about it, had wondered about packing it off with an american friend who's heading over there, to mail internally; we'll see, but that's really good to know. i am glad that i would be getting my camera repaired by master splinter.

dipped into a couple of other EG interviews that were fascinating, talking about living in this kinda post-Frank world in which we're resigned to but fuelled by chance & what we end up seeing & chronicling locality, etc. will try to read the bomb one.

ooh, link me to some other EG interviews!

ha, there was two & i can only see one off the top of my head, i know i've got it tabbed or bookmarked at home though, so, for now:

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/09/theory-interview-with-emmet-gowin.html

To be in the presence of our own first hand experience, is probably the only way we can save ourselves. See what I was saying about Robert Frank; what I had to give up was being answerable to Frank. What I had to become was answerable to what was happening in front of me and how I felt about it. That’s what you have to give up, the authority of an answer and replace it with the authenticity of the experience. And that’s why I want to emphasize and celebrate what Sommer was saying. We’re at the mercy of what we find. That’s the big advantage. It’s a big advantage.

so my dad offered to give me the m6 (like permanently) as a birthday present (he will never use it again) and i am srsly torn about how to deal with that?

totally ignoring any family dynamics that might make it ~complicated~, that just seems nice to me. & you'll use it. you will be helping the camera fulfil its destiny as a camera. & also you could always give it back to him (also as a birthday present, it would be very generous).

how has it been playing with it? i mean in the context of 'this is not my camera' but then also just generally, playing with it.

yeah accept the camera and love it! I think the best possible destiny for any camera is to stay in continuous and rigorous use.

schlump: I like those floral pictures a lot, btw

oh hey thank you! floral photz are just a good way to shoot colourfully i think. i can't remember if i posted this a couple of months ago, i feel like it looks like it came out of a tasteful home interiors store's fall catalogue but it is kinda nicely blurry & measured in a way my photos usually aren't. leaves. colours. goodtimes.

i am feeling self-indulgent by posting stuff btw so please everyone else address this by over sharing.

oh wow, the green/blue/orange contrast there is really striking

i mainly take blurry unflattering photos of friends btw, i'm just not so big on posting identifiable ppl here

xp why yes it screams AUTUMN, it just screams autumn at your face

idk - I think the contrast between green and red is very striking

ty man

just finished reading the interview w/ frank where he disses HCB. will try to scan it (and by scan I mean take shitty pictures with my outdated iPhone) but I will transcribe this quote

"I'm not interested in taking a beautiful photograph. I don't mean that there's no room for it; I just don't want to do it. For example, I live in a very beautiful place. I could get a camera, and make a very beautiful picture. It could be almost as good as Ansel Adams. But I don't want to take a beautiful picture, and I can't, really. It makes me feel good to look at it. It wouldn't make me feel good to take that picture."

Very bright day today, went up to the Lake District, got a few shots that I like, will upload after I've stared at them for a while to make sure I like them.
Here's one I like straight away, desaturated it and straightened it, then just added a little clarity to it.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6697220533_7ac6402f3f_z.jpg
Coniston by carljgodwin, on Flickr

Oh man... that is breathtaking! And I do say that too because I was there just some months ago. But really, a spectacular capture. It reminds me of Phillip Lachenmann's Grey Study series, a series of photographs I adore:

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_114305_400857_philipp-lachenmann.jpg

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/22f4d93e.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/0359b962.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/3fc26c08.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/d9b9c56f.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/eff21411.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/15711487.jpg

love the third one down

girls, table, glasses

it's the weeknd baby

both of those parties were terrible, btw.

Just like the texture of the paper here, and the oblique late-afternoon sun...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6695478081_6e171da1b1_z.jpg

love the third one down

reminds me v much of one of mine own, never knew I'd be ~influential~

gbx in there with "i wore them first"

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2767/4323475588_92700dbae5_z.jpg

more recent feet:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/b911c704.jpg

i especially like it because those two ended up kind of getting together that nite (nye)
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/724bc289.jpg

oh they're both great
patterned tights, yellow shoes & decorated wallpapers all seeming like gifts from the photographees

btw two more recent plant & leaf pics that i forgot i'd taken, following my small ILP retrospective of floral shots in January 2012.

decided it was time to go through the archives again

http://ihardlyknowher.com/idiotcervantes/big

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6705091061_cf37a4440e_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6705089795_bba0e17c5b_b.jpg

i havent had any film developed in a while but i did one of those hardlyknowher things

http://ihardlyknowher.com/tiepoloceiling/big

decided it was time to go through the archives again

http://ihardlyknowher.com/idiotcervantes/big

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Damn homey

Damn homey

^^ dayo your phots are crushing, the first one is like sadder than bicycle thieves

& plax those photos are amazing, you are like a prism:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3282/5722072294_2fbed4a700_b.jpg

ilp on fire

me too :-)

just thinkin baout things

first roll on a new camera, apologies for posting again so soon:

http://i.imgur.com/Kffqe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3kxzu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/o4uIV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xP7LK.jpg

oops wrong thread

my Winogrand tribute:

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

god damn it can we lock this thread