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...
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
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
― gr8080, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 11:47 (nine years ago) link
if ppl wanna see us looking cute in public they can follow my instagram
― gr8080, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 11:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
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).
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
#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
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
#yes #please
!really look forward to that
the archive of early 20th c. sydney police photographs, for example, is stunningthe mug shots include some of my favorite portraits everthe 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.
― drash, Saturday, 21 March 2015 06:30 (nine years ago) link
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)
― drash, Saturday, 21 March 2015 06:54 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I saw a metinides exhibition @ aperture, stellar work
― 龜, Saturday, 21 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
http://media.virbcdn.com/cdn_images/resize_1600x1600/7d/c2c46d39d8970f54-Kuo_120208_9994-Edit.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 21 March 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
just came here to post that nytimes link. great pictures there, including evidence of a defunct streetcar line nearby my apartment!
― chinavision!, Saturday, 21 March 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/
IDK how this guy is doing this but I like it
And it's digital!
― 龜, Sunday, 22 March 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― drash, Sunday, 22 March 2015 12:10 (nine years ago) link
its... all the things that I try to correct for when scanning and editing negatives
― chinavision!, Sunday, 22 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Half film and half video gamey
― 龜, Sunday, 22 March 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/jojakim-cortis-adrian-sonderegger-icons
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link
Elizabeth Huey just posted a bunch of new pics on her tumblr
http://i.imgur.com/p267n4q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DteuVpE.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 12:05 (nine years ago) link
https://medium.com/gone/surreal-photos-from-inside-the-fake-vacation-industry-f50ad4ff30c7
http://i.imgur.com/hNukPti.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/7sF4zwG.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/RRKlzxJ.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
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.jpghttp://www.theblogazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/20120315-luigi-ghirri-02-2dmblogazine.jpghttp://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.jpghttp://mycontradiction.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/luigi_ghirri_foto_02.jpg
― drash, Saturday, 28 March 2015 12:36 (nine years ago) link
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.
― rent, Sunday, 29 March 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link
i went to a bar tonite called Weegee's and it was adorned with lots of... You guessed it
― gr8080, Sunday, 29 March 2015 05:35 (nine years ago) link
rent, like those! great flickr in general
would like to drink one day at the sagamore hotel in miami, with complete set of winogrand's women are beautiful on the walls
http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqadck8T1a1qz8977o1_500.jpg
― drash, Sunday, 29 March 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
thanks drash! (sorry to pop in just to link to my own photos. love reading these threads but just so rarely feel like i have anything to say. will try harder.)
― rent, Sunday, 29 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Hah rent I'm just getting around to pictures I took at the Beijing World Park
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/beijingworld.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 29 March 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
that’s a graceful photo. on the one hand, it’s amusing, exposing artifice (though like rent’s photos, doesn’t feel condescending). on the other hand, the gentle black & white tones, and the way the the bodies and the white train harmonize with the landscape, also make it look in a way like a real fairytale: a magical realm inhabited by princesses, princes, and photographers.
― drash, Sunday, 29 March 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
ha yeah that is excellent. i want to see more!
― rent, Monday, 30 March 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
Ty dudes
I'm slowly making my way through but here's a preview
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/wuhan.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
(Not taken at the Beijing world park btw. Very far away actually)
a+
i mean the guy's stance
& sleeve rolling
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link
beautiful - there's a lot going on in the expressions on those guys' faces!
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 08:42 (nine years ago) link
schlump & bizarro otm; love all the poses & attitudes, coordinated in space
― drash, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 08:47 (nine years ago) link
dan those are both great
― gr8080, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 10:30 (nine years ago) link
Superb.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 12:02 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bjp-online.com/2015/04/hip-hop-revolution-museum-of-the-city-of-new-york/
I'm gonna go
― 龜, Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
Ty all btw. Editing is slow work!
Confession: I do a lot of editing while drunk. That is how you get True feeling.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/truefeeling.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 4 April 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
i love this photo
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 4 April 2015 03:44 (nine years ago) link
also
sometimes editing is fast sometimes it is slow
very confusing
yeah that pic is gr8 m8
― Clay, Saturday, 4 April 2015 03:49 (nine years ago) link
Ty
I'm going through my outtakes and I might publish em - only on ILP
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/outtakes1.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/outtakes2.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 4 April 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
But of course I will share what I shot last year. The trick is to get drunk and listen to Tinashe
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/changsha.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 4 April 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
龜, love your photographs
been in something of a depressive/ lazy period lately re period re photography (one of the only things in life that makes me truly happy); you inspire me back to the scanning & editing board
i have great affection for outtakes
― drash, Saturday, 4 April 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
hi there. just stopping by since I've seen our blogs linked here a couple of times: Modes Vu and Modes China. umm... i guess that's it.
― eee, Sunday, 5 April 2015 11:41 (nine years ago) link
Hi eee! I buy a lot of your books ^_^ I think #heartbreakclub is my fav series in idk how long? Just resonated and reminded me a lot of my own time in China that a lot of other China photography didn't
drash tyvm, I think I'm the same way - never feel as happy as when I'm editing and a good picture clarifies itself
You can check out my previous work here
― 龜, Sunday, 5 April 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Daniel! I'd like to make a heartbreakclub book eventually. I found him on Weibo and the funny thing is that his personal, somewhat random photos are a lot more interesting than his professional work. I find that to be the case with photography generally: photos shot with phones are more spontaneous and personal. It has nothing to do with image quality but how you use the respective devices.
― eee, Sunday, 5 April 2015 13:02 (nine years ago) link
Yeah they remind me a lot of pics I used to take on a Motorola V300
The image quality adds to it. I get frustrated that the iPhone's camera is too good (lol)
I saw that you're working with Rian Dundon (I have his book Changsha)
What other good China photogs are out there?
― 龜, Sunday, 5 April 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
modes china lookin real good, eee
also hey who is good on instagramout of everybody in the whole world i meani feel like it should be home of the fresh-feeling digi-snap
i like shen li
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 5 April 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
I'm working on a new book by Rian Dundon actually. Should be out pretty soon. As for other photographers.. I'm way too insular and focused on my own work so I can only talk about those we've published. Check out Jeff Yiu's JAM maybe.
― eee, Sunday, 5 April 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
The best living photographer on Instagram: @pinkhassov.
― eee, Monday, 6 April 2015 03:40 (nine years ago) link