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 ilpremember 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
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
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3452/3402836688_3c011d676d_z.jpghttp://farm5.staticflickr.com/4134/4784159004_e7f6232732_z.jpghttp://farm5.staticflickr.com/4042/4660475067_1a3d4db5a4_z.jpghttp://farm5.staticflickr.com/4121/4917891970_21d83df1a7_z.jpg
― ledge, Friday, 21 December 2012 10:35 (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
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8098581162_459dd59dc6.jpg
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 21 December 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/25/41089839_721e19348f.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5125/5302086490_3dc66ae837_z.jpg
― Michael Jones, Friday, 21 December 2012 15:51 (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.pnghttp://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.jpghttp://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
they're lovely. so soft. that's w/400CN, right? doing things that are different in a way that makes you fuck up a lot is really good i think. i am pretty into the distortion of my phone camera right now.
rad words phots btw! i love that anything was ever industrially branded with FECALS
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Saturday, 22 December 2012 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3265/5872070283_b9bd93fcd2_z.jpg
One from a while back.
― michaellambert, Saturday, 22 December 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder how many of us make a loose New Years resolution to take more shots, I am still a newbie pretty much but I've just gotten a couple of lenses for my Rebel (cheapo 50mm 1.8 Canon and an EF 85mm 1.8) and am looking at a Tokina Wide Angle lens. So this is my resolution, just opened a Flickr account and am also going to try to overcome my street shyness (this is hard, I live in London.)
I was up on the roof of my workplace testing my new 50.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8362/8300112430_fb6b8999fa.jpgIMG_1787 by nwrhns, on Flickr
― MaresNest, Monday, 24 December 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
I decided pretty much on a whim last Jan 1st to do a 366 project for that reason ("take more shots"), as all i was really doing was photographing bands. I've stuck at it, but not sure I've really improved all that much from it. Less than a week to go now, so that's good!
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
just playin with new camera, nbd dog pictures
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8212/8292787250_a58c992344_z.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8080/8292783294_ceeb1de847_c.jpg
― the late great, Monday, 31 December 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8497/8328420964_11a7b9e5a0.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8078/8292451986_846358543c.jpg
last one is like, ok put the f**king camera down already
― the late great, Monday, 31 December 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
and some words too
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8359/8328397122_3dcbc833cc_c.jpg
― the late great, Monday, 31 December 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
i love love love that pic of the dog with the window frame in focus
― caek, Monday, 31 December 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
me too :-)
― the late great, Monday, 31 December 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
just thinkin baout things
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
first roll on a new camera, apologies for posting again so soon:
http://i.imgur.com/Kffqe.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/3kxzu.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/o4uIV.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/xP7LK.jpg
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 17 January 2013 07:31 (eleven years ago) link
oops wrong thread
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 17 January 2013 07:32 (eleven years ago) link
my Winogrand tribute:
http://i.imgur.com/mJVmBBz.jpg
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
god damn it can we lock this thread