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[lenicolas]

They are in the coffee shops, discussing philosophy, instead of out and about, making grand photographs!

So true

About the link I showed you, i don't realy dig any of those photographs, i agree with you that they lack some sense of "grandiose" or drama. I just wanted you to see the places, and think about what it's like to live less than 10 hours drive to all of these places...

Anyway, anything exotic always sounds much better to me.
I'll trade france for patagonia anyday
(but i'd miss the food and women though)

It's almost like the whole US is about 5 national parks.

It sometimes feels that way to me too.
And don't forget Nyc! Arbus, winogrand, meyerowitz, davidson, shore... The only major american photographer that I can think of who hasn't shot New York is Eggleston...
[though I shot there too and love it ]

[munz6869]

As an Australian, in a state spoilt for climactic variation and scenery (deserts, alpine areas, dramatic coastline etc), the LF photographers that inspire me (currently, after a period of Ansel-worship) are the social documentarians like Atget, and Signe Brander (who I discovered on a trip to Helsinki a few months ago) - I wanna make pictures like them, and I don't know that that sensibility is in anyway formed by nationality - perhaps politics and travel. Most local LF-ers I know I've met through cheerily ad-hoc APUG get togethers, and other than unbridled enthusiasm - print sharing reveals to me little national aesthetic commonality whatsoever! Maybe there's just too small a statistical sample...

Marc!

[Sirius Glass]

And don't forget Nyc! Arbus, winogrand, meyerowitz, davidson, shore... The only major american photographer that I can think of who hasn't shot New York is Eggleston...
[though I shot there too and love it ]

So you are saying that Adams, Weston, Lange are just crappy snapshotters.

Steve

[lenicolas]

So you are saying that Adams, Weston, Lange are just crappy snapshotters.

Steve

Of those three, i'm sure at least weston has shot nyc, for adams and lange, it's worth checking it out but i dont own their books... I'll give it a shot next time i'm at the library.
Anyway, that doesn't make what was said any less true...


I also just realised : it's harder to shoot people with a LF camera.
There's some teaching to do to make sure they don't move after you've focused the camera... Maybe that's one of the reasons more LF photogs are not that interested in photographing human matters... ?

[Sevo]

I also just realised : it's harder to shoot people with a LF camera.
There's some teaching to do to make sure they don't move after you've focused the camera...

Well, that is why there are (or were) LF reflex cameras...

Sevo

[Sirius Glass]

Of those three, i'm sure at least weston has shot nyc, for adams and lange, it's worth checking it out but i dont own their books... I'll give it a shot next time i'm at the library.
Anyway, that doesn't make what was said any less true...


I also just realised : it's harder to shoot people with a LF camera.
There's some teaching to do to make sure they don't move after you've focused the camera... Maybe that's one of the reasons more LF photogs are not that interested in photographing human matters... ?

Ansel Adams took photographs of Stieglitz in New York.

Dorothea Lange concentrated on whom she photographed and their surroundings more than where she photographed.

Steve

[Brian C. Miller]

I also just realised : it's harder to shoot people with a LF camera.

Well, not really. Most press cameras have viewfinders and/or wire guides, and in public you can set the lens for f22 and hyperfocal distance. Low light is where photographing people with LF becomes a problem, due to relatively slow lenses.

I don't think that it is harder to photograph people unobstrusively, as you can just hold the camera at your waist, but it is really evident that you are carrying something unusual, so why not hold up the beastie?

It is harder to do spontaneous photography with an 8x10 or larger, though. There is the Hobo camera, but that is fixed focus.

[JamesFromSydney]

I've tried street photography with a crown graphic. It does work, but the problem is that the camera itself attracts a lot of attention. They were probably a common sight back in the days of Weegee, and I think you can carry it off better if you dress and act right (like Louis Mendes).

[Sirius Glass]

I've tried street photography with a crown graphic. It does work, but the problem is that the camera itself attracts a lot of attention. They were probably a common sight back in the days of Weegee, and I think you can carry it off better if you dress and act right (like Louis Mendes).

A fedora is required head gear for a Crown or Speed Graphic. Don't go out without one. I wear a fedora when I am packing my Speed.

Steve

[roteague]

A fedora is required head gear for a Crown or Speed Graphic. Don't go out without one. I wear a fedora when I am packing my Speed.

Steve

Or an Akubra for an Aussie ....