david enzel Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Alex Webb pictures in the October NG shot with the M6: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0210/feature6/zoom1.html Great stuff and all shot with one camera (M6) and one lens (35 mm). David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt991 Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 I guess we all need reminding from time to time about the timeless virtues attainable with an outfit such as used here. Providing we have an eye (as surely Alex Webb has) for a picture, or the patience & perseverance to master such techniques. James T a one camera one lens man myself...but short on technique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_bender Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Rather mundane shots of bad quality (at least as presented on the web). Alex Web is famous for complex compositions with many moving figures momentarily arranged in a perfect way. These assignement shots are of little artistic value, if any at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 I much as I'd like to see the photos, I refuse to type in an address that long. Can't someone make it clickable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dford Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 <a href="http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0210/feature6/zoom1.html ">link</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_smith10 Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Sandord, the web site would be "clickable" if the post were written in HTML; however, it is trivial to copy and past the URL into the address window of your browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary_yeowell Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Yep, pretty uninspiring stuff much like most of the Geographic imagery these days, have not bought a copy in ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesrani Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Why, have you got really short fingers or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostly sports Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 These look as if he should have used a faster film. Underexposed and murky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary_yeowell Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 No Rob,much better publications around to spend my money on, try looking at a copy of 'Communication Arts' photography annual, or is that a bit too expensive for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_bender Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Sorry, whatever I managed to find on the web, quality may be less than ideal:<p><a href=http://www.bu.edu/prc/GODOWSKY/1989/webb.htm> The Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Awards, 1989: Alex Webb</a><p><a href=http://www.filmstudycenter.org/DIS/DIS-009-575.jpg>from Dislocations by A.W.</a><br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_.1 Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 David Alan Harvey is another who practices 1, 2 at the most, lenses, and I think he mainly uses the 35. I like how these threads disintegrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Not only am I lazy, I am not capable of copying that long of line without at least two mistakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesrani Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Sorry, Gary, my retort was to Sanford, I forgot to copy his "I can't be bothered..." bit. Ha ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_weber Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Try this, Sanford, if you're using internet explorer: * Put your mouse cursor just to the left of the URL.* Depress the mouse button.* Drag your cursor to the end of the URL.* press ctrl+c (hold control key down, then press c key, let both up)* press ctrl+l* press ctrl+v* press return Should take about 2 seconds or less, no mistakes. If you want the URL to open in a new browser window, put a ctrl+n between the c and the l steps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary_yeowell Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Rob,Very sorry, my misunderstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preston_merchant Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 AW's portfolio at www.magnumphotos.com will restore your faith in his talents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wind.dk Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Some restoration of faith was indeed needed, David Azia's recent one, one... material was much better. These look like a few unusually bad holiday snapshots. It may be the web presentation, but if the photos were any good to begin with, it must have taken an extra effort to make them like this. AW's other pictures look a lot more interesting, but it's still a pity we're only allowed to see such small version, I hope they don't do him justice. (This a general problem with well-known photographers presented on the web, people of the internet generation will never understand their fame, at least not without an extra effort.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan_ratzlaff Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 The images in the magazine are better, there is more shadow detail, however it looks like the high contrast in the images is intentional, othewise one would choose a different film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
._._z Posted September 22, 2002 Share Posted September 22, 2002 Sanford: "I am not capable of copying that long of line without at least two mistakes." Sanford, you should get someone to show you how to select text with a mouse, copy the text (with a key-command or menu selection -- your choice), then paste it into your browser with another command. Simple-as-pie copy/paste has been in graphically-based OSes for, oh, around 15+ years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricks Posted September 23, 2002 Share Posted September 23, 2002 I'm with Ivar - these looks like P&S snapshots, not very impressive from eith a technical nor artisitc perfective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timothy_swan Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 I reach for my gun whenever I hear the word "snapshot". The same people denigrating Alex Webb here probably have only seen a few crappy jpeg's on the web and have never seen his work in person, his books, or his stuff for National Geographic, yet they feel qualified to judge. How would *you* like to be judged based on jpeg's whose quality and size you have no control over? Webb's work is pretty consistently dynamic, challenging, and engaging, which is pretty rare these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert goldstein Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 I have no doubt that Webb is a fine photographer, certainly better than I. But someone (David Enzel) thought that this group of photos on the NG website are a good example of Leica photography, whatever that is. Hopefully, they are not, as most of these photos are truly mediocre. Yes, they do look better in the magazine prints, which I have seen, but this article is certainly not the best representation of Leica or NG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david enzel Posted October 21, 2002 Author Share Posted October 21, 2002 I still think Webb's photos on the NG web site are good - and all made with one camera and one lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd thacker Posted November 5, 2002 Share Posted November 5, 2002 I just did a search for "<a href=http://www.magnumarchive.com/c/htm/TreePf.aspx?E=29YL53UHS21>Alex Webb</a>" and up popped this thread, which I missed, apparently, first time around. (Nothing like blowing into the party several days late, after everyone else has long since gone on to something else.)<P> The reason I was doing the search is because I just finished consuming, in one long slow draught, his book, <U>Hot Lights / Half Made Worlds</U>. I've long admired his work, but spending real time with this book has really made me sit up and take notice. Strong and compelling stuff. And if ever there was a "Leica stylist", this guy is it. (What's really surprizing is his age: he's been at it a long time and still under 50.) I've actually been meaning to post a thread about him here, but now I guess I don't have to. Webb is slowly working his way into my top five favorites list.<P> As is <a href=http://www.magnumarchive.com/c/htm/TreePf.aspx?E=29YL53IRSE8> Harry Gruyaert</a>, whose work I frankly hadn't noticed until quite recently, when I picked up a book called "The New Color Photojournalism" (published in the early eighties). <a href=http://www.magnumarchive.com/c/htm/TreePf.aspx?E=29YL53UHBZX>Martin Parr</a> is another whose work I've grown increasingly to first admire, then emulate (too easy to do in Waikiki - fish in a barrel), then admire again. His <U>Retrospective</U> in particular, I'd recommend. <P> Really, you pretty much can't go wrong with that Magnum bunch. It's interesting (and noteworthy too, except everyone I think already knows this) that Magnum and Leica are pretty much synonymous.<P> Anyway, enough rambling. Thanks for the Alex Webb post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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