photo-breezing

thanks so much, michael - michaels - that's a really thoughtful post, & some kind of weird historic DSLR is maybe appropriate. a couple of nights ago i found a bunch that i thought at least looked cool but the photos i'd find tagged with the model # on flickr still had this weird digi-gloss i couldn't shake.

i'm not 1000% sure about the camera-computer dynamic thing, just kind of remembering how i use my camera. i know that if i was a printer then printing would be as much what taking photographs was about for me as the taking photographs part. you know? like the people who are invested in that plain of how the images present have this whole other responsibility & perspective. & with a camera so much of the satisfaction for me is still its weird internal processing; i don't really shoot slide film anymore but it feels kinda alchemic, the apparatus having some sort of integrity in re-scrambling together outdoor textures into the emulsion & plastic you feed it. & i don't know, i can't think any further than the camera i'd buy giving me immediately satisfying images, even if they're satisfying in different ways, like i said, flawed or weirdly glowing or whatever. it is cool thinking about this stuff, maybe i will post some cellphone snaps i like sometime.

totally feeling michaellambert's post - I love my RAW/Lightroom workflow for making my architecture photos look as good as I can try and make 'em... but then somehow even quickie snapshots become projects deferred over months in the to-do list. Maybe I should switch to "RAW+Jpeg" so I have the option of just taking what the camera gives me and not fucking around as much. Or look into presets for approximating the camera JPEG, anyway.

I gave up on RAW+jpeg, all I ended up with was loads of unused jpegs as I couldn't leave the RAW files alone.

Well, I’m not an actual photographer and don’t aspire to be one, but I started putting some effort into photography last year to make sure what I posted to Instagram didn’t suck. I had to delete a lot of crappy pictures from my account to get to a place where I was satisifed, to a degree at least, with what I had out there, but: http://shoutkey.com/pageantry

Mostly VSCO Cam + time in the woods and on location at other places, taking a bunch of photos and deleting most of them. I’d like to take more this year and maybe try out some of the other mobile photo software out there too.

(Sorry if this isn’t the right photography thread for this post btw.)

I really like VSCO Cam.

Yeah, it makes my stuff look way better.

that photo you posted yesterday was excellent

Thank you nakh!!

(Lake in my town btw.)

http://internethistory.tumblr.com/post/108858003173

ha, my gf's roommate has this

Seems like a bad time to develop some weird ganglion or bone spur on the distal inter-phalangeal joint of my right middle finger. Can barely hold a bloody camera! Obv not mentioning this to folks from whom I'm trying to get photo gigs. Ibuprofen, I guess.

http://i.imgur.com/EcqCrF2.png

IH

schlump i feel you on your reasons for sticking with what you stick with. weird historic DSLR is maybe appropriate. it doesn't feel like a weird historic dslr to me but i have a canon eos 300d, grey plastic, came out in 2003 and i bought it for $50 i think at don's photo in suburban vancouver. you can go to best buy and buy a lens that fits on it and it makes beautiful pictures but the viewscreen is really low res and doesn't show you any flaws but lets you check basic framing and isn't distracting and all controls are on dials and buttons up top and it's easy to use and it doesn't use sd or modern storage (i forget what it uses, some big chip thing) so it slows you down from taking a billion shots on a card and it has okay autofocus so i can use it like i'd use a film point&shoot.

http://barnacleisland.tumblr.com/

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7550/16282160905_5dfe0aa8a6_o.jpg

from the historic dslr

http://i.imgur.com/ZTCXmOq.jpg

it doesn't use sd or modern storage (i forget what it uses, some big chip thing)

Compact Flash. Probably more robust than SD and still used in the pro models, but sadly about twice the price of SD these days (was the other way around 8-9 years ago).

300D was my first DSLR; it was great. This is the last photo I ever took with it, on my daughter's 4th birthday. The shutter mech died minutes later.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3614/3289178910_702e20ff56.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL0MvHpieaE

Stoked

dude just straight wiping down that negative huh

damn

oh my god can these negatives please surface please

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/02/23/jeb-bush-releases-his-only-wedding-photo-that-wasnt-destroyed-by-a-frank-zappa-concert/

lol
imagining a kind of rauschenbergian collage

http://i.imgur.com/YhLFLgt.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/books/tiananmen-square-negatives-an-art-book-or-a-protest.html?_r=0#

I did the invert colors trick and it's cool as heck

kinda in the same zone, aesthetically, at least-

http://veralutter.net/images/works/maria_laach/full/maria_laach_1.jpg
http://veralutter.net/images/works/met_museum/full/met_museum_9.jpg

http://veralutter.net

http://i.imgur.com/M1VHoTQ.jpg

http://barnacleisland.tumblr.com/

Used to follow Talking Barnacles; so nice to follow Tsai again.

http://www.vice.com/read/too-hard-to-keep-0000599-v22n3?utm_source=vicetwitterus

ILP crew get in here (last 2 days of posts especially):

WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

photo-cheezin'

I've been a long-time (if silent) admirer of that thread, gr8080. Especially as I have three potential wedding shoots lined up and the thing I *never* do (and this is a failing, really) is to get the couple to *do* anything. There's a lot to be said for being an ideas-y, proactive event photographer, rather than the "you won't even know I'm here, in fact most of the time you'll be looking the wrong way" sort of snapper. But some ideas should never be pursued...

true but weddings & engagement shoots are totally different animals

this is probably very pretentious of me but if i were to get engaged to a like-minded woman i'd try and book someone who shoots large format b&w in a studio with a white canvas backdrop, maybe 12 photos & call it a day

if ppl wanna see us looking cute in public they can follow my instagram

Ha ha. Gr, if you could fly me in, I would buy the necessary gear and even teach myself how to use it. Polaroid proofs FOC.

True about engagement vs wedding. I didn't even know about the existence of the former until that thread.

Wedding/lifestyle/engagement photography is so weird - it all looks the same, thanks to VSCO filters and I'm surprised that wedding photographers aren't routinely throwing a shit-fit online about being underbid by bored stay-at-home parents (a big chunk of the wedding biz around here).

#yes #please: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/nyregion/reaching-into-the-past-the-police-dust-off-a-photographic-trove-to-rival-weegees.html?_r=0

#yes #please

!
really look forward to that

the archive of early 20th c. sydney police photographs, for example, is stunning
the mug shots include some of my favorite portraits ever
the forensic photographs (e.g. of bodies or empty rooms) are chilling, eerie, haunting, fascinating, moving, horrifying, uncanny, yet beautiful (sic— not happy with that word but can’t think of a better offhand)

http://blogs.hht.net.au/cityofshadows/

http://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/justice-police-museum/forensic-archive

http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/resbyfield.jsp?term=New+South+Wales.+Police+Dept.+&field=AUTHOR&searchtable=CATALOGUE_SEARCH_PICTURES&displayFormat=TABLE

also, enrique metinides

it’s hard to discern/ untangle/ express what some of those crime photographs make one (me) feel, to really accurately describe it. ironically too easy to do some sontagian superego self-scolding critique.

e.g. of bodies or empty rooms

or of evidence ("still life") or simply of a place-- a street, a building, hallway, a park (often with no crime specified)

Yeah I saw a metinides exhibition @ aperture, stellar work

http://media.virbcdn.com/cdn_images/resize_1600x1600/7d/c2c46d39d8970f54-Kuo_120208_9994-Edit.jpg

just came here to post that nytimes link. great pictures there, including evidence of a defunct streetcar line nearby my apartment!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/

IDK how this guy is doing this but I like it

And it's digital!

Nice. Seems to be doing something interesting with the color correction and tonal range, which gives the night shots something of a film feel. Leaning to pink/ blue over green/ yellow? And minimizing contrast, so instead of the harsh blown out highlights you often see in digital photos, there's the mellow glowy lights more redolent of film.

NB I do film not digital and am less than a neophyte at digital post-processing, so don't really know what I'm talking about.

its... all the things that I try to correct for when scanning and editing negatives

Half film and half video gamey

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/jojakim-cortis-adrian-sonderegger-icons

Elizabeth Huey just posted a bunch of new pics on her tumblr

http://i.imgur.com/p267n4q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DteuVpE.jpg

https://medium.com/gone/surreal-photos-from-inside-the-fake-vacation-industry-f50ad4ff30c7

http://i.imgur.com/hNukPti.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7sF4zwG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/RRKlzxJ.jpg

enjoyed those; good choice imo not to take condescending view of the people in them

they remind me of luigi ghirri, also fascinated with simulacra, juxtaposition of real & represented landscapes, how humans inhabit them

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/themoment/posts/081105_infocus5.jpg
http://www.theblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/20120315-luigi-ghirri-02-2dmblogazine.jpg
http://mycontradiction.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/LuigiGhirriCapri1981.jpg

so then “real” sites & landscapes visited by tourists appear like simulacra, representations, copies of themselves, as well

http://mycontradiction.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10.jpg
http://mycontradiction.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/luigi_ghirri_foto_02.jpg

i went to window of the world a few weeks ago! https://www.flickr.com/photos/kdfo/sets/72157650740712860/

i was aware of the danger of condescension but also wanted to get the chaotic feel of the place...it's kind of hard to avoid ironic juxtaposition completely. but in the case of woow there's really not much room for condescension in that it's really well done. and it's just nice that something like that exists for families who aren't able to travel the world.