what do you see like: 2012

That's how cool we are http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Very sweet deal gr80.

TOP is running some great posts on how B&W pics can look different

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/02/bw-through-the-years.html
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/02/interpreting-black-and-white-part-i.html

wow I *just* closed my attempt at that black and white conversion before checking this thread. the initial post was pretty great on there.

come on dudes, I'll do it... gotta rack up view counts somehow:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6773433706_317683825a_m.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7058/6919335181_b66b76a5f2_m.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7202/6919241629_527fe34837_m.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7055/6913955775_8ec7bd9be4_m.jpg

return to the scribbly wall

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i can't remember if i already said this, you are the only guy who makes modern cars look okay, in photos/takes photos in which cars are not some awkward difficult element actively ruining the photo. this isn't a car thing, it is a photo thing.

behind the scenes scribbly wall director's cut remix also great

the one of the bus stop is so balanced, I love it

oh this is great, cv: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6913136509_b23bd214bc_b.jpg

thank you!
re: modern cars, it's not something I *specifically* try to shoot, but I have always been really bothered by some people I'm contacts w/on flickr who obviously love shore, eggleston etc. and always shoot OLD CARS. those cars weren't old when they were photographed guys! part of a trend of people who try to mimic their fav. old photographers by photographing stuff from the same era of their fav. work.
that WOMP tag is all over for some reason

yes, for sure. i mean i think such a key thing about eggleston is his eye for design, or fixtures, or fashion, which must have seemed fairly mundane & ordinary, but which carry a lot of power after the fact. & the retro-(/decay?)-documentation urge is definitely counter to the idea of filling the same role as a photographer.

yup people seem unable to separate the style/technique/goals etc. of a photographer from the subject. folks left hunting for scenes that look like they miiiight pass for 1973.

I'm purchasing the Canon 10-22mm at the end of this month, anyone used/owed one? I'm off up to Loch Etive next month and wanted a good wide angle lens.

Something the keep the thread going...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6931456253_8e5213d6b6_z.jpg

I have one. I deliberated for a loooooooooong time over it (kept waffling over Canon vs Tokina) but I'm pretty happy I chose the Canon.

I think I walked by the same antique shop seen in one of Elvis Telecom's Feb 6 posts:

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/abe999ca.jpg

Ha! When were you in Bisbee?

yes! spent the day there today. hadn't been there in years. took a few b&w photos too. will post them when I get them back if they're any good.

Birkenhead Hamilton Square station. I waited for many trains here in my youth...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6790639324_447d9d136c_z.jpg

not_g: played with a 10-22mm once, at the top of a Peckham multi-storey car park...

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2546/3717669520_aaa15e3d66_z.jpg

A recent favorite. The south face of Mount St. Helens, out the window of a plane, with a telephoto lens.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6834128575_027fe13f40_z.jpg

niiiice

It's a crazy-sharp lens, and one of my favorites. (Though at this point it's like picking favorite children.) It's an 80's model push-pull zoom, 70-210mm. No auto-focus, but in situations like this that serves me well, because I don't want to trust the camera to decide what's most important. I'm looking at hundreds of miles, ffs.

I think from time to time that I'm venturing into more saturated pictures, but then I scan some old kodachrome slides and realize what heavy saturation *really* is:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6790895690_d26a40409c_z.jpg

Kodachrome: jellybeans for your eyes!

ha that's amazing, it makes me categorise the past as a time when everything looked like kodachrome/everyone was on acid all the time (/everything was orange)

yeah it's funny because looking at it, it seems *right* to me because, of course, LA was sun-drenched orange and yellow when I took it, but if I took the same picture now with, say, fuji superia, I wouldn't get ANYTHING like this, and if I pumped up the reds and the saturation etc. I'm sure it would just feel wrong!
also the black blacks... I'd be kicking myself if I let my blacks get that dark with print film, but with slide film the decision is made for me, and it kinda looks good? I'm thinking of messing around with chromes a little more again. I can't get the *greatest* scans of them, but whatever.

slightly off-topic, I noticed that an installation picture I did was used on LPV: http://lpvmagazine.com/2012/02/medium-1/ (the Art Blog Art Blog one)... and I now realize that that gallery series has been written about quite a bit, with my documentation accompanying most articles. I did it pretty unprofessionally anyway... in exchange for vacation time upstate.

http://lpvmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/artblog.jpg

but with slide film the decision is made for me, and it kinda looks good?

heh yeah there was a photographer who shot slide film in the south american tropics - the exposure range is so wide due to the harsh light that he just said fuck it and let the shadows go to pure black and got these amazing, color film noir-ish photos. can't remember the name of the photographer but there was a post on TOP about it.

I've seen those! and yeah they look good.

I think it's fun noting that all the instagram/hipstamatic filters are sort of the equivalent of how film manufacturers tweaked their films back in the day - kodachrome, velvia, etc.

except we are very conscious of the artifice when using iphone filters - films, though, felt 'natural'

heh yeah there was a photographer who shot slide film in the south american tropics - the exposure range is so wide due to the harsh light that he just said fuck it and let the shadows go to pure black and got these amazing, color film noir-ish photos. can't remember the name of the photographer but there was a post on TOP about it.

link plz

http://www.webbnorriswebb.com/

http://i.imgur.com/1sq1o.jpg

alex webb - I think he is an ILP favorite

check out 'the mouth of night (paraguay)' on the website

alex webb is one of those photogaphers who makes you want to quit everything, sell all your possessions except for your cameras and travel the world and take amazing pictures

sigh

these aren't mine, i like my housemates photos tho

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwyxz11Tn1qzck11o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1330694020&Signature=OSUPvM8IcOqP4oqKnl46TVw5o1k%3D

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/necoutepaslesidoles/15134450502/1/tumblr_lx4vbxMGxs1qzck11

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/necoutepaslesidoles/15134092140/1/tumblr_lx4uy8ZdaC1qzck11

I like the last one especially.

yeah the white on white is nice

first one is my sitting room

i like the chairs one v much

she gets how to use this hard frontal flash which is a technical thing i am jealous of, v nan goldinish.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6932041575_0c4baa7501_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6794047844_56d93fd50f_z.jpg

recent faves.
there's a little of that frontal flash there, though whether I know how to use it I couldn't say. it's from an olympus stylus epic, which has become my new 'going out' camera. I love it!
(I found one for $15 at a flea market, but the day *after* I ebayed one for $25, so my gf gets one too.)

stylus for second pic. top is still the leica.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7203/6942902391_90915281e1.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6796787314_92674697e5.jpg

Yes.

aw, my pickles vanished :(

i liked the pickle jar a lot

me too.

You can still click on the empty image slot and get to it people, don't be sad.

Oddly compelling.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6799439316_5cb89ec3f0_z.jpg