There's an element of self portraiture in any photo since it lets the viewer borrow someone else's eyes to see the world as they see it. That element of self portraiture has exploded this decade with...
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There's an element of self portraiture in any photo since it lets the viewer borrow someone else's eyes to see the world as they see it. That element of self portraiture has exploded this decade with...
I have a seasonal project that has me photographing strangers in state parks (on winter break just now). It's kinda "high concept" in that it explores what people are willing to volunteer (their...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWrh7OG5yQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UNXJdTQKuw
Thanks, Joanna, I'll check it out.
Thanks Joanna, with the untweaked files still safe on the other drive I was only bummed enough to seek solace in a second slice of pumpkin pie. But it was definitely annoying.
I've read about the...
For the past couple days I've been pulling large scanned files off one external hard disc, tweaking them in PS, and saving to another external hard disc (Iomega). The files end up in a folder that's...
I had a show of 70 prints of the interior of an abandoned housing project a couple years ago. It was well received and got some good press but one of the "critics" called in preparation of his review...
Are you sure about that? The presumption of truth in photography (erroneous as it may be) goes back more than 100 years in the public's mind. Do we really know what unique appeal will be left to the...
I fell asleep half way through the film but up until then it struck me as strange how little it focused on her art. For the first hour (at least) of the movie, you'd barely know she painted.
The biggest source of dust is what accumulates in the felt lining of the light trap you pull the darkslide through. Every third or fourth time I load a film holder I retract the darkslide until it's...
Are you sure you really need to stop down to f32 for either of these shots? One of the problems you're butting up against is the extreme contrast negatives you get from very long exposures.
I spent 7 months of 4-6 hour days printing my first show on an Epson last year, so spare the presumptuous, arrogant shit about knowing who has or hasn't "worked the process."
I was responding to Brian's claim that a hand pulled print is no more "hand made" than one spit out by a computer. Which is more "creative" is a different and much broader question.
You might...
Then nothing will convince you. You maintain that printing 10 prints individually in a darkroom is the same as scrolling to "10" in the print dialogue box ...and that's self-evidently ridiculous. ...
Hell, I print digitally (at least color) and still recognize the absurdity of your argument. "Not handmade in any usual sense of the word?" If silver prints aren't handmade, then neither are the...
Victoria,
That's pretty remarkable work.
I'm curious, what's your market? I see from your website you're a commercial photog, which makes me wonder whether this is personal work or if this...
A couple I came across at the beach a couple weeks ago (technically not August, but eh...). The hope is to reshoot in September with the girl holding the newborn -- a sorta before/after thing, ya...
Thanks, Hiro.
I think I've nailed it down to my satisfaction.
Love the diagram -- really brightened up my day. he he
Alan,
Believe it or not, I'm on the road to understanding -- at least if you turn the explanation around a bit. So if a corolory of tilt creating different object distances from a single vertical...
Thanks, Paul. I'll do some google hunting and noodling on it, but I'll probably end up settling for "it works because it does."
Thanks, guys. But it's not the theory behind tilt that I'm confused about. It's why it should work if rays of light enter through the entire (tilted) lens before being focused onto a specific point...
Heroique's current T vs B question prompts me to bring up something of my own that actually did keep me up last night thinking about:
I've heard it explained here that surprisingly large scratches...
I think lens board to film plane is too large a distance to measure accurately -- if the lens board isn't perfectly parallel to the film plane and you don't measure from the exact same spot... Take...
Further to Gem's post, a popular way to check for inconsistency between the ground glass and film plane is to set up a shot angled down along a picket fence. Shoot wide open and note which fence...
I think the problem is shrinkage and not bowing or popping. If you're getting more ghosting in the bottom of the image than in the sky area, it's shrinkage for sure since gravity keeps the neg seated...
http://mazzeogallery.blogspot.com/2009/07/rsvp.html
Subject for first exhibition is "Trees." Deadline for entries is today, for anyone interested.
(no personal affiliation with Masseo Gallery)
Excellent. Doing that kind of contact work to line things up is a big piece of getting a project off the ground and something I'm unfortunately shy about.
Well done.
Great concept, though my attention drifted from their "faces" on a couple shots :D
How do you make contact with potential subjects? Do you have connections with a local orchestra or music school?
Total loner here.
I only have a store of so many words every day and once they're used up, I'm done.
See?
I was surprised to see 5x7 160 NC listed at B&H. Last I heard, they'd discontinued the stuff. Did they change their minds?
It's even more arrogant to accuse someone of lying, as you did by dismissing ghost's explanation that he was unaware of any B&H/Jewish connection.
There's a lots of us who don't know or care...
In my experience it's possible to make due without a release if you learn to trigger the shutter by "brushing through" the lever rather than actually pushing it in. But I agree with almost everyone...
A gridded glass is essential for this kind of thing. I found the "easiest" way of getting a view that's straight on to a building, or wall, is to level the camera on every axis and then do a slow pan...
"I'm happy to get one keeper a month."
Best Adams quote because it explains all the damned calendars.
I've got a system that avoids this problem that's a lot simpler than it sounds in describing:
I keep my holders in ziplock bags, 4 or 5 to a bag. I always pull fresh holders from the back of the...
Thanks, Matt.
I'm actually more inclined to believe it's an Adobe problem than Vista's. Even a quick scan of the Adobe boards shows a lot of unresolved issues with CS* upgrades and an...
Thanks, Don.
I've been ignoring it without any ill effects other than the annoyance factor. But it's weird.
Here's an unrelated problem that's not worth starting a new thread on, but someone may be willing to help with -- I'm running vista and CS3 and whenever I turn on Bridge I get the error message, "...
Thanks, Sergey
After reading a bit about the 3gb switch I've chickened out. I'm one boot failure away from total computer disaster since I'd never know how to fix it.
I tried turning off the...
You can also make a compelling case that, as a "still" medium, photography is most honestly applied to still objects. Photography's unique ability to document becomes a unique ability to lie when...