what do you see like: 2013

(and milo) <3

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fantastic

thanks... digging through older stuff till I start up the developing cycle again.

nice photo bomb in the first one

they're really fine

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love the chair one

woah very nice: what are you shooting with?

Thanks! Just a Canon rebel and the cheap 50mm.

I was trying to raise the ISO to stupid noisy levels to get a day-for-night thing on the first pic, I'm such a massive noob tho', still coping (read, tearing my hair out) with working fully manual and getting a much higher ratio of soft pictures.

oh wow yeah those are really great. I really love the loose focus. I'm really feeling photos that don't concern themselves much with being in focus right now, and these hit the moodiness sweet spot.

Finally in on the plane window action!

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Holy moly, 2013 is off to a hell of a start. Some amazing work here so far - particularly taken with Grady's double exposures and mirror tube experiments.

Here's a couple from the last few weeks:

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x100?

Yep, both X100.

wow love the lines in the 2nd one

here's one from lolinstagram

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Wow, that looks exactly like a still from this movie I watched last week, Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Took some shots of a friend's band, got an 85mm Canon lens at Xmas and it was a good excuse to practice, most of them were okay but as you'd expect, but this one with it's slight AF mistake I liked.

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Love that! "What do you mean they cut the power?! They're pizza delivery guys, man!"

So many great shots so far this year, loving the reflections and shadows work.
Not been very productive this year so far. Forced myself out yesterday for a walk. I really should be doing more as I treated myself to a 5D MarkII before Christmas, feeling guilty for not making the most of it.
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Walking to the station from work tonight (first time I've taken the camera to the office for months, it seems)...

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they're nice. sorta like robert frank in beirut,

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I'm trying to get away from sunset/sunrise shots, but they're like a drug to me.

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gorgeous

it looks like a tree monster is reaching up from inside a mountain with a gigantic "come here" tree finger
what's not to love?

Sneaked a bunch of street shots on the way home tonight, I only had my 85mm lens on me however so I was kinda forced into portrait situations, took a bunch of people through shop windows.

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That's great, MaresNest.

My photo-taking has slowed down a lot this year, have done a couple of gigs and working on weekly portraits. A friend lent me a Mamiya C330, put a film in and went for a walk today but couldn't figure out how to work it!

A few portraits:

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first portrait is awes

More commute home randomness...

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First and third are very nice, like the colours a lot - straight out of the camera?

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too wide when side by side, sorry bout that

beautiful

Nice, Chinavision!

Michaellambert: First and third were actually fiddled with quite a bit in Lightroom; second is a high-ISO B&W JPG (more or less) straight out of the camera, though.

chinatown victorian fainting couch ice carriage a+

funny cuz I can never remotely figure out which pictures people will like. I thought no one would dig that picture out of my recent ones, but instead it's gotten more attention than some "people photos" that I thought would have been popular and have just kinda sat there.

I often feel pretty clueless about editing. think I've got a killer photograph that is ignored, or that I've got a marginal or boring one that is then favorited by strangers.

does anyone actually edit with confidence, and get expected results?

there is room for both, I think; publish what you like & then just have Michael Almereyda root through your archives in thirty years. I definitely think it's true that you can't really have a personal & accurate gauge of what will be popular, in that I know I've really often preferred friends' work that they consider p benign, & friends have more often been complimentary about things I'm not excited by than the things I feel like got right (it would sorta make sense for this to correlate with our differing relationships to the actual subject matter, the photographer having actually been there & all, but I don't really think that's it). I wonder if Flickr itself is a weird way to gauge this kinda thing? like navigating that quantity of photos means certain types of photographs stick out, poppier/brighter shots. really I think your own edit is what matters & really shouldn't be perceived as skewed or off if it isn't jiving with others' perceptions, just because it's what you're trying to say. a body of work probably forms more cohesively if you're following a thread rather than compiling a best of, anyway.

as an aside I really did like all of those. I mention the last because it's just such a perfect arrangement & catch, & because I spent the last couple of days occasionally considering kicking stray objects into the path of the golden-hour sun just so they'd align more photogenically.

oh flickr is a totally bizarre venue for displaying photographs and evaluating reactions. I'm trying to get myself to rely on it less, but still... there are stats! and I can't help but notice them! I have no self control.
and sometimes it is really easy to ID what makes a popular photo tick, like a couple of mine that I can recognize as fitting in pretty easily with sorta "lifestyle" kinda photos (the picture of my girlfriend pointing out of an airplane window at NYC is a little bit of a tumblr memey sort of thing, which makes sense because it's in an airplane, it's nyc, and it's sort of gauzy orangey hazy and has vibes - I get it).
people's reactions are sometimes reassuring, as in, "nice, someone likes this!" but also a little worrying, as in "ah, people are identifying structure or subtext that I *completely didn't notice* in the whole process of shooting, editing, and uploading."
all of this would probably be a lot healthier if I just, say, worked on taking and editing pictures for a couple years, and then put them online on my own terms and at my own pace. or put them in a book, for crying out loud! but then also without flickr I probably wouldn't have gotten so into photography, so there you go. and of course I guess everyone's convinced that their work merits a book too.

ha ha. yeah that's interesting. I have been taking photos for I guess eleven years or something but it's only really since scanning them & seeing them better & maybe talking here that I have understood them better & figured out what I was doing. I can see how being enmeshed in flickr & getting some kind of yield from an otherwise personal production is pretty useful. it's nice that photographs have portability that way, that they can be traded, commodified. I don't think you have to work in a vacuum, necessarily, but I sorta think the personal-development thing should probably happen in tandem with rather than being too responsive to the feedback you get. there are those theories about any sort of revolutionary or progressive art being inherently unpopular at first, because of it disobeying or not conforming to the standards of what's popular, & while I'm not suggesting that photography is one bold thinker away from another Frank-esque breakthrough school of thought, I feel like being overwhelmed by the success of the stuff that jives well & yeah comforms to certain formulae risks overshadowing the less obvious work. I just scanned a shot of a cauliflower in a woman in a red coat's red shopping basket & it's not quite in focus & so doesn't quite come across right, but I probably like it better than a couple of the other shots I have of like fire hydrants, &c. would buy a CV book, btw; your stuff is v singular, like a sorta formal Gill-ed out take on some of the classic busy-Asian-streets guys.

I'm gonna have a glass of whiskey at home tonight and think a bit and try to respond at length a little later, but for now will just say that I definitely FEEL THE DANGER in knowing which formula brings easy results on a website like flickr, or tumblr. when one spends all the time in the world swimming in the flickr pool, it just gets to easy to figure out how to maneuver in that environment, and possibly be totally screwed when trying to jump into a larger river (yep I'm trying my hand at metaphors today).
I can't believe that I can devote this much brainspace to something called flickr! I also can't believe that I replied so quickly to your post. I'm not really refreshing this page all day, just swung by for a sec.

I wonder if there should be a new thread for working out some of the thoughts going on here and on the 'famous people' thread. I feel like there's some kind of unifying theory that involves flickr, tumblr, the grand traditions of photography, and the more performative or derived-from-the-art-world strains, and the way that maybe they're growing together a bit. like I feel like there has been a bit of a gulf between some strains of photography that declared allegiance to different traditions (whether journalistic, or "artistic" [i.e. staged, collaged, or "conceptual"]) but that the gulf is narrowing. more 'straight photography' types are engaging with manipulated/staged etc. photography, or art using photography, and I feel like a bit more 'straight photography' is creeping into the art world. this is an impression I have, but I don't really have enough confidence to say that it's not just something that I'm imagining.

...and I would love to sell you a CV book btw

really wanna respond both to this & to the (man, beautiful) posts in the famous people thread but i just can't right now

also i have some bootleg uta barth shots i took by spinning the focus wheel that i don't have time to edit into jpgs right now

they're pretty though

I don't know that I have much to add but would totally encourage a new thread for these kind of thoughts that have been spread over the two threads.

XP -I wonder if there should be a new thread for working out some of the thoughts going on here and on the 'famous people' thread.

Would love to read more thoughts, this is all super interesting to me.

Colleague lent me his Sigma 10-20mm. I don't think I really know what to do with it, but my commute this morning looked like this:

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