what do you see like: 2012

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DO YOU SEE??

lol this is so the problem with taking photos of garbage but yeah that picture is really awesome

spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link

haha I didn't even go for that reading I just dug how neon elektrik the flag looked

this could be an album cover

乒乓, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link

it is my friend's facebook cover lol

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link

thought i was seeing a dope photo that had greens around an american flag with upside down lungs in it

well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 06:22 (eleven years ago) link

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8074/8255418787_c6161a2cde_z.jpg

michaellambert, Sunday, 9 December 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link

love the tone on those photos schlump, especially the second one - has really good 'weight' if that makes sense

v cool light displays, michael

乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link

winter in west texas

http://i.minus.com/ijLt5ol25HQNo.jpg

not convinced that horizon is horizontal tbh

caek, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.minus.com/iMUBHxq0P1ykS.jpg

caek, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link

both with hueless, A+ b/w iphone app

caek, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link

hah I was gonna say, u been doing some nice work with greys

乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link

yr iphone stuff is so good caek

what is google (schlump), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link

i just read a lil about hueless & it makes me feel so conflicted, sad lol

what is google (schlump), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link

i like it even though john gruber likes it

caek, Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link

thanks guys, but it is basically impossible to take a photo in west texas that is not good imo

caek, Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link

important things: SKY, DIRT

caek, Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link

i am thinking about getting a water tower tattoo btw

caek, Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link

I struggle a bit with judging how horizontal a horizon is too. Nice work on those, have downloaded that app to try it out. Has anyone else used VSCOcam? I quite like it, "film emulator" type thing from the people who do the VSCO Film plugins for Lightroom, etc.

michaellambert, Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link

great framing on the 2nd one down

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link

yes

caek, Monday, 10 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link

schlump, photo #2 above really does it for me too. the shadows are really nice, and combined with the sort of wavy sheets, give a real nice sense of *depth* to what at first might seem to be sort of a flattened geometric picture.

lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link

hey thank you! a flattened geometric picture would actually be okay to me. all of those pictures i posted look really weird & different large (which, to provide an unsolicited directors commentary for them, you can see by changing the /s700/ in the urls to /s0/), which i think is only a thing for me when it's sunny & i'm not shooting wide open. it's interesting.

also i was wondering: i got a new phone a while ago, so have been kinda enjoying outsourcing some of my goofier/more colourful shooting to the camera on it, but i'm so into occasionally recording stuff, too. do any of you use video in a similar way to stills? it's becoming really interesting to me, like this new thing to play with & think about. i'll maybe post a thing itt at some point.

what is google (schlump), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link

get the KitCam app, it does time-lapse:

http://vimeo.com/55320383

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link

oh wow, neat

what is google (schlump), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link

flattened geometric picture not meant to sound like a negative... just that it was interesting to see that it wasn't what it first appeared to me.
top one is really good for shadow-created depth too.

lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link

ha, aw that wasn't me being wounded, i know what you mean. flattened geometrics are neat. i am still trying to diversify away from shooting so much discarded or rusting junk though.

what is google (schlump), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link

i'm all up on yr IHKH, so these weren't new to me, but they're so nice. i used to see your photos & think i could tell which were point & shoot & which from an slr - maybe because some had the datestamp, i don't know - but it's harder now, there's a kind of looseness to them. i just got some photos back from a couple of months back, with this shot where i'd walked by a car in front of a car park in front of a building, & tried to shoot it, two of the cars different shades of red & the building built of pale red brick. it felt so much subtler than what i usually shoot, just about tone and echoes. it didn't come out particularly well, it isn't striking, but it felt smart, like a move in the right direction. those ^ photos are simpler & bolder than some, i think, like they're very neutral & strong & umm non-partisan, if i can extend the semantics of democratic photography to encompass other political actions.

the shoes remind me of one of my fav stephen shore shots (kinda at the other end of the spectrum, busier, more particular), i can't remember if i posted it here before

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TqS_FNdUGjA/TlJpbPq724I/AAAAAAAACSQ/j47bUpff_K4/s1600/SS-599.jpg

kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link

yeah that picture is amazing. it's a shame that clothes, furniture, and curtains are rarely so colorfully patterned any more!
I think I've been well-served recently by slowing way down and editing more severely. almost to the point of taking a break on uploading pictures.
it is hard for me to be loose, but I'm trying!
also it's sort of weird that I don't really know if I've been taking good pictures lately or not. and won't know for some time. the scanner is packed away.

lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link

kinda a good thing i think? i have overdone praising the ~serendipitous magic of arhythmic film processing~ on here before but it can be good to buffer seeing what you shot; a lot of the time i am seeing stuff i can't really remember shooting, so i'm less tangled up in being bummed out that it didn't pan out, or too tethered to its context. i am always going to have a ton of film sitting waiting for me to get it together.

i'm going to pick up my scanner this afternoon, which means getting into a bunch of (those curled) negatives i got back. so psyched. can we change the ilp slogan to hanging out at the textile warehouse? i feel like this is where we should be shooting our best work

kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link

"a lot of the time i am seeing stuff i can't really remember shooting, so i'm less tangled up in being bummed out that it didn't pan out"

^^^ this, totally. The #1 thing I miss about film, even though it's the direct result of what makes me happiest about digital, the increased workflow.

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link

oh I'm thinking it'll be really good for me to slow down my reviewing process, definitely.
a little breathing space and all that.

lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link

it's a shame that clothes, furniture, and curtains are rarely so colorfully patterned any more!
so so so so so true

passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

i am sure there are some migraine-inducingly upholstered parts of the country where we can prove this wrong

kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

I certainly hope so.

passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link

hey ilp
remember a while ago, everyone posted some photos they had taken on aeroplanes, it was fun & infectious, it drew upon a well of photographs drawn from an impulse common to camera carrying aeroplane passengers, it was both fun to do & so enjoyable to look at. earlier i was looking through somebody's photos & there was a really good shot of something that had a word on it. the word really popped. it was vague enough not to make the photo this literal thing, but meaningful enough to mean you were meeting the aesthetics half way. it was an influence on how you looked at it. even just the way the word was written. i think about words in photos a lot because they are simultaneously kinda easy meat, sometimes - they can do a lot of the heavy lifting, maybe, like if you take a photo of some kind of distressed-looking industrial marking that carries a lot of weight & has a certain authoritative aura, or maybe if you shoot a brand logo or something - but they can also be really abstract, in a bunch of ways, in isolating something from context or repurposing the language or letters. i remember reading david shrigley talk about how strange it was to think that a part of his day for any reason involved the phrase Why am I being asked for my password?, once he had zeroed in on it. i thought maybe some people could post some photos that have words in them. i am not totally just setting myself up to be leap in with my own awesome contributions under the guise of a democratic survey, like "did you ever meet anyone famous?" "uhh well i-" "WELL YES ONCE I MET BONO", eager to pounce. but i thought it might be a unifying subcategory of photos. is anyone in?

kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Friday, 21 December 2012 06:47 (eleven years ago) link

sorry if i am turning ilp into the last page from the weekend magazine in the guardian, i promise i will keep the themes abstruse & resistant to poetry

kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Friday, 21 December 2012 06:47 (eleven years ago) link

is it okay to post dog pictures here?

the late great, Friday, 21 December 2012 06:54 (eleven years ago) link

it is the internet, go right ahead

kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Friday, 21 December 2012 07:41 (eleven years ago) link

Words are good. Let's do some words.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2349/2423362629_6927865b3f.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3209/2409068302_be3a69f5bb.jpg

Michael Jones, Friday, 21 December 2012 09:09 (eleven years ago) link

"Please". You can tell I live in the UK.

Michael Jones, Friday, 21 December 2012 09:10 (eleven years ago) link

damnit middle two in the wrong order. not that it would be any more grammatical.

ledge, Friday, 21 December 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link

that jacket is so bomb

well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 21 December 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/IO1Gd.png
http://i.imgur.com/mfJFg.png

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 21 December 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

first roll w/ my first SLR:

http://i.imgur.com/SmGZJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CRn0J.jpg

ended up with a nikkor 28mm-105mm lens that has a macro mode-- very very different from what i've been doing for the last 3.5 years, but that's kind of the point-- the rest of the roll is blurred/out of focus/overexposed lol

also have a 50mm prime f/1.4 coming in the mail this week.

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 22 December 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link

ha i guess even those two are blurred/out of focus, but i like them anyway

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 22 December 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link


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