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General Gingersnap posted:Apologies, misread the tone then! This isn't getting enough love. It's a short series with a simple premise but that last picture made my stomach churn. The range of emotions displayed is amazing.
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Sep 30, 2010 21:50
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quote:Sorry, I guess I just don't understand how whether or not a homeless guy has eaten recently is relevant to anything. As far as I can see, Schuman takes photos of whoever looks interesting to him - it's not just people with fancy expensive clothes, he has tons of photos of people in generic casual clothes, work clothes, uniforms, etc. Why would a homeless guy be off limits? If they have no problem posing for him, why do you? Exploitation of subjects has been a constant issue throughout the history of photography... maybe this discussion should be taken to a new thread because it's pretty interesting. What about (rich, upper class) Diane Arbus photographing "deviant and marginal people"?   
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Oct 1, 2010 06:35
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I dont think you are ever going to be able to fully seperate photography and explotation, at least photography in a documentary/journalistic form. The only thing you can do is to try and eleviate it as much as possible. Alot of the criticism aimed at Diane Arbus I dont really get, the people she photographed were marginal people, alot of them were freakish and most of them are strange and unusual. That might be an ignorant and harsh way to describe a set of people, and you could substitue the description but ultimately in the face of society and the norm thats what they were. It is an interesting discussion, and there is definitely a line that can be crossed.
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Oct 3, 2010 10:29
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Fragrag posted:This isn't getting enough love. It's a short series with a simple premise but that last picture made my stomach churn. The range of emotions displayed is amazing. Agreeing with this. Gave me a little kick in the groin.
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Oct 3, 2010 10:51
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Why does he have a gun pointed to his head? I know I'm just another Internet commentator, but the photo reminds me of those fake "intense" photos people take on flickr. like "okay, portrait idea, you look scared and I'll point a gun at you. it'll be a frighteningly true emotive picture."
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Oct 3, 2010 16:21
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Helmacron posted:Why does he have a gun pointed to his head? I know I'm just another Internet commentator, but the photo reminds me of those fake "intense" photos people take on flickr. like "okay, portrait idea, you look scared and I'll point a gun at you. it'll be a frighteningly true emotive picture." He has a gun to his head because that is an effective way to get a confession. There's nothing fake about it, purportedly. If it is a picture of an actual interrogation, it's not unlikely there's a urine stain you can't see. The Artist says posted:I have been working on this photographic account of police work and the underworld in Eastern Europe off and on for the past five years. Documenting police work is far easier in a police state—an ex–police state, I suppose one should say—than it is in Canada. Here, the police interrogate suspects well out of public view and hide behind the bureaucratic screen of liberal democracy—the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Privacy Act as well as other confidentiality laws and so on—but still employ the techniques of intimidation, threats and mounting degrees of physical force to pry inculpatory statements from their subjects. The four months it took to complete this set of pictures involved a complete personal surrender of will. Every day was a fight between what I envisioned and what others involved deemed morally acceptable, even if it was repugnant to me. It was a clash of cultures, with my very quaint Enlightenment ideas clashing with the interrogators’ very serious ideas about confession. http://www.canadianart.ca/art/features/2010/09/01/donald-weber/
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Oct 3, 2010 18:26
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scottch posted:Alain Delorme's series of Shanghai cargo cyclists and their tottering, totem-esque loads. brilliant, i think the processing complements the ridiculousness of the subject
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Oct 3, 2010 20:07
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I clicked through the thread looking for an image I'd thought I'd seen here; it was a reproductions of 'Birth Of Venus' in someone backyard (it's an understatement, I know). Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was incredible and I want to see if I can get a print.
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Oct 4, 2010 10:22
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dolphins are gay posted:I clicked through the thread looking for an image I'd thought I'd seen here; it was a reproductions of 'Birth Of Venus' in someone backyard (it's an understatement, I know). Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was incredible and I want to see if I can get a print. You didn't look hard enough - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3229836&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8#post377760580
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Oct 4, 2010 14:20
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poopinmymouth posted:First all digital issue of Vogue. I probably like this a lot more than most of you guys will, but it's interesting regardless of your model gender preference.
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Oct 4, 2010 17:01
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I have a feeling that digital issue thing isn't going to catch on.
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Oct 4, 2010 20:10
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I really like it, but I agree with you because it does feel real 'internetty' in a avant garde ytmnd kind of way.
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Oct 4, 2010 20:31
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I HATE CARS posted:You didn't look hard enough - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3229836&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8#post377760580 Thanks a lot for this!
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Oct 5, 2010 10:32
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GWBBQ posted:I can't get it out of my head that the music for the intro photo sounds a whole lot like Transilvanian Hunger by Darkthrone I thought it sounded like Street Spirit.
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Oct 9, 2010 17:40
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Looking at the one with the guy kneeling next to the wall (first moving one), the wall moves quite a lot between the last and first frame, and it looks a bit amateurish. Also, it's a bit...."wanky". I don't see what they add. Like others have said, though, this forum has probably ruined me for animated GIFs being used for anything except stupidity. EDIT: Also: brad industry posted:Exploitation of subjects has been a constant issue throughout the history of photography... maybe this discussion should be taken to a new thread because it's pretty interesting. This would be great. Care to weigh in with an OP on this brad? Gazmachine fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Oct 9, 2010 |
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Oct 9, 2010 19:16
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I like all these video experiments by photographers and seeing what they do with the limitations they have. Here's a short film by fashion photographer Alex Prager: http://www.nowness.com/day/2010/6/10/683/bryce-dallas-howard-in-despair
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Oct 10, 2010 01:07
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brad industry posted:I like all these video experiments by photographers and seeing what they do with the limitations they have. Here's a short film by fashion photographer Alex Prager: That was interesting, it's pretty neat to see how his still work is transformed into motion. Also, it still feels very much like his still work because he kept the 4:3 aspect ratio instead of widescreen. Do you know what the significance of the birds/planes imagery is? I saw this post about combining typography and video in a photographic way. http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/07/28/combining-video-and-typography/ I'm surprised more of the iPad magazines aren't doing this yet. Right now video is sort of thrown in as an afterthought in the examples I've checked out. AIIAZNSK8ER fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Oct 13, 2010 |
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Oct 13, 2010 03:11
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Bjørn Jørgensen has a gallery with some pretty awesome pictures of aurora borealis. http://www.arcticphoto.no/images/aurora/index.html 
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Oct 13, 2010 03:20
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:That was interesting, it's pretty neat to see how his still work is transformed into motion. Also, it still feels very much like his still work because he kept the 4:3 aspect ratio instead of widescreen. Do you know what the significance of the birds/planes imagery is? I don't know about that specific image, but I noticed it started and ended with a shot of the shoes. I think in her (it's a woman) photography women taking action is kind of a reoccurring theme so read into that what you will.
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Oct 13, 2010 22:56
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brad industry posted:I like all these video experiments by photographers and seeing what they do with the limitations they have. Here's a short film by fashion photographer Alex Prager: I like this quite a bit. The way a lot of the shots are framed and with the camera movements it has a bit of a Hitchcock feel to it. ZoCrowes fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Oct 14, 2010 |
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Oct 14, 2010 04:05
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RBFp_5q7bY My friend Josh's winning submission for the NxNW 48-hr film festival here in SpoVegas.
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Oct 14, 2010 07:06
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Here is a gallery of the 2010 Nikon-Walkley Press Photo Awards: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/gallery-e6frg6nf-1225939122829?page=1
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Oct 17, 2010 06:40
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unixbeard posted:Here is a gallery of the 2010 Nikon-Walkley Press Photo Awards: I always enjoy looking at these kinds of things but they always make it painful to navigate through the photos.
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Oct 17, 2010 07:08
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unixbeard posted:Here is a gallery of the 2010 Nikon-Walkley Press Photo Awards:  This one got an audible gasp from me. I got goosebumps too.
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Oct 17, 2010 07:46
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Moist von Lipwig posted:
Seriously, how goddamn lucky do you have to be. "I was driving along a road, saw some unusual waves, hopped out, took a picture, and when I got it off the camera noticed someone just happened to be there, making it an epic shot."
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Oct 17, 2010 21:57
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More like: "I watched a man die today."
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Oct 18, 2010 03:39
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Moist von Lipwig posted:
The Earth is loving awesome. That guy is awesome. I can't even imagine how that photo was taken with the perfect settings at the perfect time, but it's goddamn inspiring.
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Oct 18, 2010 04:59
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Axel Serenity posted:The Earth is loving awesome. That guy is awesome. I can't even imagine how that photo was taken with the perfect settings at the perfect time, but it's goddamn inspiring. I bet if you asked him  Oh yeah I just set it to auto! ...oh
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Oct 18, 2010 07:48
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This might seem surprising but there is more to photography than camera settings!!
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Oct 18, 2010 08:46
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Looks like there is a great big post-processing gradient diagonally across the image, its annoying because I really like that photo and can't unsee it.
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Oct 18, 2010 09:05
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Twenties Superstar posted:This might seem surprising but there is more to photography than camera settings!! I just meant that it was an incredibly lucky photo, which is certainly a part of great photojournalism. "F/8 and be there" and all that jazz. There were a ton of different elements that had to come together at just the right time for it to turn out the way that it did. Which I guess is what I like about photography so much. The guy who took that is the only one who will ever get that shot. He's an incredibly lucky photographer, and I don't mean that in a demeaning way at all. Most photogs will be hard-pressed to get one shot that good out of their careers. In other news, National Geographic is in the middle of their annual photo contest.   
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Oct 18, 2010 09:06
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The wave pic really swept me away. It isn't even that good technically, a bit unsharp and with visible noise. Which of course doesn't matter one bit. The next pic in the series (bloody teen with stick) was...I don't know, his mental problems and exposed identity made me feel bad but his stride was so hoppy and skippy it made me chuckle. Chill bear above is loving awesome. But that hairy guy with the tongue...is there any term for the color effect? I've seen it quite often and I don't like it. Nothing comes out of the camera looking like that, nothing looks like that in real life, it just says "I selected Modern Expressive from the effect presets".
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Oct 18, 2010 12:09
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Axel Serenity posted:This hurts my eyes. This would be a much better photo without all the lovely processing.
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Oct 18, 2010 15:03
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This one caught my eye. Maybe not the most dramatic photo, but it seems like a great place to kick back and watch the world. I want this on my wall:  I swear I've seen people here post images of this lake:  Or is my brain playing tricks on me?
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Oct 18, 2010 16:07
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xzzy posted:
Nah, you have seen it before. It's Peyto Lake in Alberta, in the Rockies. I know I have posted a shot of it before and I think DreadHead posted a much better one.
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Oct 18, 2010 16:20
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Ola posted:Chill bear above is loving awesome. But that hairy guy with the tongue...is there any term for the color effect? I've seen it quite often and I don't like it. Nothing comes out of the camera looking like that, nothing looks like that in real life, it just says "I selected Modern Expressive from the effect presets".
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Oct 18, 2010 21:02
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The clarity slider: helping homeless people look wise since Lightroom 1.1
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Oct 18, 2010 21:07
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ZoCrowes posted:This hurts my eyes. This would be a much better photo without all the lovely processing. I thought what was the kind of detail and light you could expect with large format cameras. Oh well. e: also I don't think he is homeless. He is clean shaven with a pressed shirt. Just hairy and old. RagingTaco fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Oct 18, 2010 |
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I just saw it as an attempt to mimic the Einstein picture.. probably the hair that does it more than anything.
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