The Shadow

the 2 bikers by marc ohrem-leclef caught my eye as a good documentary photo, though not unexpected. the rest are trying too hard.

part of creativity is taking the risk to reject or defy current good tastes

ah but there is disputing taste. a good way to learn to see better is to have people dispute your taste, have those people give good reasons. if your open to listening and seeing differently, voila, your own taste changes and develops - all because it was disputed. taste is too often used as an excuse to remain comfortable, familiar, stagnant and hold fast to the past. a good taste dispute can move someone forward, change us, open new horizons. i’m Thankful to different artists and friends who’ve challenged my taste over the years. they didn’t view my taste as something i owned. it was sometimes something i was stuck in and needed to be shaken out of.

i think a lot of good photographers are on the inside looking deeper or differently

read about salgado and his work with native tribes and people worldwide or see the documentary about him by wim wenders, salt of the earth, it’s not true for him photographers like avedon, leibovitz, karsch didn’t strike me as uncomfortable with people. brassai was very involved with the people in places he shot for me photography is about social contacts as much as the finished print the personality type you describe would apply to some but probably not most photographers

there are strange squiggles and patterns and some color aberrations in ed’s skies there are obvious halos around the dark flowers standing up against the sky in ed’s and glenn’s versions, more strong in ed’s glenn’s shots read to me more refined and pleasant, ed’s more surreal and unappealing

:) i find it best to compost table scraps

an alternative to moderation is severity wildness abandon exaggeration which also have their place in photography if you overdo hdr or saturation just because and without the vision or skill to back it upit will miss and just seem off or ugly if you go to extremes with a creative purpose and the recognition that you are doing so and can make it work with the content of ur photo more power to ya

yes people could have special feelings for their first love first car first camera none of my cameras have the kind of soul if they have it at all that photos or people do as blueprints firsts even if they get surpassed can be important - but thats not my idea of soul

lighting, color, and technical aspects work poses and expressions a bit stiff, background doesn’t work (draped look with neutral color is kind of dull) favorite shot is the one with the big smile, arms folded, a little vignetting - it’s natural and endearing mostly, it’s too obvious she’s posing for the camera. most shots look like she’s looking at camera, not me. my mind goes to photo shoot instead of model herself. ask her to occasionally look past you instead of at you. have her look down and suddenly raise her eyes or whole head. get her thinking about something else but posing. establish more curves with her body positions. open up her poses more in some instances. many straight, uninteresting lines in the poses. good start that can use refinement. look at some great portrait photographers for inspiration as much as ideas and expression, yours and your models. avedon and penn fashion stuff, steichen, leibovitz, mccurry, helmet newton, etc

davidtriplett, i like ur 1st photo for the same reasons as u and also because the photo with hdr looks flatter

adams vision summed up by adams - “the negative is comparable to the composers score and the print to its performance” his vision appeals to me less as an expressive rendition of subject and more as manifestation of the beauty of the print

when out photographing i’m always courteous to people especially people in uniform w guns who are mainly there to protect me and others. i’m courteous and appreciative even while affording them less privacy because their public servants acting as public servants.

is an example of a finely honed craft, organically integrated, as opposed to a lot of hdr work which is blatant and gimmicky

ruslan, can u make a case for the comparison to malevich? i don’t see it. i can see criticizing the photos, but your comparison doesn’t make sense. the understated fashion photos, sometimes seeming even forlorn, don’t approximate the minimal abstract geometry of malevich’s later work or thr brightness of his earlier primitive peasant paintings or what malevich was getting at with either project. the mention of shore above or even a reference to some of callahan’s color scenes of buildings and streets is more relevant. hendersons not groundbreaking or flawless, but the photos are from crappy.

unless their on a secret mission or could be compromised in their job by a photo, soldiers and police on duty should never be off limits in public, their public servants not private citizens

its inconsistent but there are some interesting shots a trendy fashion photographer might get tired of taking trendy fashion pictures and point the camera somewhere else for a change theres a plainspokenness to a lot of them, unhyped, unpretentious, that’s appealing

“need to” “have to” “should” strange how many people think in commands what about “want” frank wanted kerouac to write an intro to the americans the intro doesn’t justify the photos doesn’t make bad photos good and doesn’t leave them standing on their own. by design. frank and kerouac were of an era frank thought it would be cool to have some of kerouacs words be part of the photo book a little reading and knowledge about photography gives many good example of pictures and text important to appreciate the cases of the negative and text supporting each other along with all the negative judgments