photo-breezing

as much as i love the pictures, they also unsettle me because i've taken a thousand pictures in third tier chinese cities and these are probably the ones i wouldn't take and not the way i would have taken them but they capture exactly what i would have liked to capture.

dayo do u knw anything about him(?)? http://c--x.tumblr.com/ texttumblr kinda heavy. i love these pictures.

https://steidl.de/assets/images/-UTQ3ZSWcJS+kcEk4W2RlJsJYaBCDXzH2Im02ztv2BkDNVpnln7b7q7qqUAfyTQeD5WNLZSDk918=/william-eggleston-the-democratic-forest-9.jpg.jpg
https://steidl.de/assets/images/-UTQ3ZS2dISzychs4BmBsfHQgD3RQ36ozB7zTguaDclKdZuPxr5G1RK7t+edLALLPRkxesWvE0zY=/william-eggleston-the-democratic-forest-08.jpg.jpg

https://steidl.de/Books/The-Democratic-Forest-2337475153.html

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http://i.imgur.com/6sLfgYm.jpg

IH

beautiful

wow ^^
actual classic

hey so
i am trying to trace an article i feel like i read here but must be misremembering some element of. it was about a new, ICP-esque photo museum opening in iirc japan. but i can't find it (i thought it was on lens) so maybe at least the japan part is wrong. does this ring any bells

http://internethistory.tumblr.com/image/135007771713

http://i.imgur.com/R62tkru.jpg

two scotch eggs at the edge of forever

like one of those sci-fi scenes when we cut to a beguiling landscape shot of a planet with multiple moons

little known fact that tatooine's twin moons were in fact reflected scotch eggs

long dvd featurette showing hairy man gingerly assembling scotch egg diorama in prop-strewn basement, slowly flooding scene with dry ice, taking occasional small bites while preserving eggs' full moon shape when viewed from the front

humming the weird ruminative star wars theme motif

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

that little glitchy black dot in the middle

transit of Venus imo

my guess is its the annoying automatic red-eye correction that drugstore scanners add to files when they give you a CD-R with your negs

I'm more concerned that the world through the front windscreen is mirrored.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/magazine/a-too-perfect-picture.html

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzAxOTY5NzI1Nw==&mid=2649953157&idx=1&sn=c6fbda98ecc253f1b0287e7bedfddac3&scene=2&srcid=04165oojVHc8JIekOEy7mEOd#rd

so rad to look through these thinking 'this is a modern thing' while not being able to say 'this is a modern thing i can neatly slot into a category of trite contemporary tropes'. really lovely & hey i forgot abt this site

i like that the encouraged background music is shoegaze

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/magazine/the-digital-afterlife-of-lost-family-photos.html?smid=tw-nytmag&smtyp=cur

Thought-provoking. I've been working on some family photos, all taken by the no-longer-living. There are certain related, if less super-thorny, questions about privacy and how people choose to define and represent their own lives. Right now I'm dealing with a (woefully incomplete) binder of negatives my mother compiled in the 1970s, before I was born. Did most of these never get printed because they were crummy exposures, because she didn't like them, or because they just didn't have time to futz around with the darkroom stuff after my brother got born?

There's also an amazing letter, in a different box, where she describes to her sister her first, partially botched, experience with loading film onto a reel, with her and my dad seated on the edge of the tub in a blacked-out bathroom, with the closed toilet for a shelf. Just like my first reels thirty years later, she ended up with some frames touching each other, big blobby undeveloped areas. My delight in recognizing this moment as a crummy little stressful incident that my mother and I both experienced in our respective youths is commingled with my wanting the negatives to all be just fine and perfectly preserved. Nothing so heavy as what this article is dealing with, but interesting to think about. Meanwhile I just wish I knew what had become of all my grandmother's slides...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK19vsJCMBM

http://i.imgur.com/nGS20jQ.jpg

need 2 cop

http://shihlun.tumblr.com/post/146626203984/hsieh-chun-te-1968-69

wd love to see-
http://imaonline.jp/exhibition/sentimental-journey-the-complete-contactsheets.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/04/magazine/where-have-you-gone-robert-frank.html?pagewanted=all

this '90s frank profe rly on a part w/ beloved leiter interviews in chronicling Peak Grouch
so juicy

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/loneliness-belongs-to-the-photographer?mbid=rss

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIF0P00jGfA/

feel like maybe the photo editor who commissioned martin parr to photograph trump voters shd be executed

I really love looking at photog's contact sheets. It's like hearing the demos of songs or something; reminds me too that not every shot's a keeper for them either. (Except Capa, the bastard — his sheets are like hit, hit, hit, hit, alternate take, hit)

https://shop.magnumphotos.com/collections/contact-sheet-prints

https://67.media.tumblr.com/9a54c5b1ec3d8eb26677d9f3abaa36b8/tumblr_o7crj6wBye1tdmbcso1_540.gif

Beautiful!

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/15/apple-hardbound-photo-book/

lol

http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/02/ren-hang-leading-chinese-photographer-has-died-aged-29/

Shot a roll last night before I realized my exposure compensation dial was at -3

D:

“Rain is like a cheat code for photography”

rain is 50,000 dollars worth of free special effects

Anyone have experience with shooting in color and transposing to b&w in post, vs. shooting in b&w? (Talking digital, not real film). Wondering if it makes any difference. I should just try it out …

Unless you've got a Leica M10 Monochrom, you're always shooting in colour - pre- vs post- is just a case of letting the camera's image processing do the B&W, or doing it after the fact. With the former, you have far less to play with - there'll be stuff you can do in the B&W conversion on a computer than you can't achieve in-camera - but that's a good restriction to have. I particularly like setting a mirrorless camera to B&W, and seeing the world like that through the EVF. You end up shooting interesting things you were blind to because of the colour distraction. Whereas most of the stuff I make monochrome in post is to "save" it (or to change up a sequence of samey colour shots).

You can have your cake and eat it, and shoot RAW+JPEG, with camera set to B&W. The RAWs will still be colour, should you wish to process them differently.

Ah yes, good idea. Thanks Michael

if you remember how filters work w/ black and white film you'll have fun w b&w conversions just make sure you remember the difference between b&w film and color film wrt contrast

I'm with Michael on this. Really enjoy setting my camera to monochrome so I see the world in mono through the EVF/rear screen, for all the reasons he mentions. I find that I meter differently and my eyes are much more drawn to areas of light and contrast than they otherwise would be. Shooting RAW, there's really no downside.

Sometimes I deliberately switch to JPEG only so I’m forced to make the images look good in-camera. I do this quite a bit on the Fuji: set to 1x1 or 16x9 or Velvia or some kind of weird bleached pre-set and just deal with that all day. Wifi to the phone, stick a couple on IG as is.

And then, days later when I’ve dumped into Lightroom and the Flickr “SOOC” groups are calling, I can’t resist scratching that editing itch and tweaking a bit, even with the reduced latitude. So they’re neither one thing nor the other.

“ It’s the forecast that I might keep clicking even if I lost clear vision. I’ll be unable to see what I’m framing, and I can’t take them visually into my brain. But it’s supposed to be photograph. It has to be the fact that the shooter got a truth from each click with certain emotion though it’s not visually seen. Not for showing to public. Focus and resolution is not my thing now. If I can remember the fact in detail or not, is the condition of if I took the truth. Losing focus is literally rather meaningful in that point. Another essential value of photography is revealed to me. It’s fun changing game. “
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“ It’s the forecast that I might keep clicking even if I lost clear vision. I’ll be unable to see what I’m framing, and I can’t take them visually into my brain. But it’s supposed to be photograph. It has to be the fact that the shooter got a truth from each click with certain emotion though it’s not visually seen. Not for showing to public. Focus and resolution is not my thing now. If I can remember the fact in detail or not, is the condition of if I took the truth. Losing focus is literally rather meaningful in that point. Another essential value of photography is revealed to me. It’s fun changing game. “
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Can anyone recommend a service to convert rolls of film to digital ?

Where are u on earth

New York