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My only issue with wildlife shots is the enormous lenses required. Well, I like enormous lenses, I just can't afford them.
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aliencowboy posted:I love wildlife photography, but unfortunately a lot of it is just par for the course. I understand the difficulty, skill and patience involved in just being able to shoot certain animals competently in the wild, so when guys like Nick Brandt come along, they blow me away. Speaking of Nick Brandt, he's been posted in this thread already so I'm just going to quote that post East Lake posted:New Nick Brandt photos.
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 18:32 |
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Robert Heinecken. He passed away here in Albuquerque a few months ago. http://theworldofphotographers.wordpress.com/category/installation/
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 18:33 |
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My problem with a lot of wildlife photography is that half the time it seems perfectly satisfied with simply having captured an image of an animal in the wild. When you get past the fact that it's a photo of an exotic animal in its natural habitat, you realize that a lot of it is really, really boring compositionally and aesthetically. I like feeling some sort of an emotional connection with photos of animals. So, yeah, Nick Brandt has kinda ruined a lot of the genre for me.
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 19:06 |
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William T. Hornaday posted:My problem with a lot of wildlife photography is that half the time it seems perfectly satisfied with simply having captured an image of an animal in the wild. When you get past the fact that it's a photo of an exotic animal in its natural habitat, you realize that a lot of it is really, really boring compositionally and aesthetically. I like feeling some sort of an emotional connection with photos of animals. So, yeah, Nick Brandt has kinda ruined a lot of the genre for me. I think there are sort of two mindsets with it. One where getting the picture is where people get their enjoyment. Getting the gear, going on safari, and geting a tack sharp picture of a lion licking its balls. The other is doing that but creating a spectacular image like Brandt does. As viewers we're always going to prefer the latter because ultimately we shouldn't really give a poo poo how someone gets to take that picture but just the end result.
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 19:14 |
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aliencowboy posted:I love wildlife photography, but unfortunately a lot of it is just par for the course. I understand the difficulty, skill and patience involved in just being able to shoot certain animals competently in the wild, so when guys like Nick Brandt come along, they blow me away.
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 18:44 |
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Jonathan May's work is great. He had an entry into the Taylor Wessing NPG Photo Portrait Prize last year and his work in general is just beautiful. I'm heavily into my first project now and I think I'm addicted already. Looking through his work inspires me because his projects aren't all about terrible things and war or poverty stricken areas of the world. Those projects are important, but it feels like we're flooded by horror all the time. It's lovely to see some beautiful images that are celebrating life for once. My favourite portrait of his (and probably my favourite of anyones of the last few years) is this one in his Caravans series: It just knocks me for six. I adore it. Go and look at the rest of his stuff, it's ace - http://jonathanmayphotography.com/portraits
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# ? Sep 5, 2012 09:30 |
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Probably posted this before but I think one of my favourite wildlife photographers is Paul Nicklen, I also just found out he lives 20 minutes from me... http://www.paulnicklen.com/
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# ? Sep 6, 2012 02:05 |
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Frontcountry A Natural Order Both of these series are great, the second is available as a book that I would very much like to own.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:37 |
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J. Carrier: Elementary Calculus Mack Books posted:Elementary Calculus, through a series of portraits, landscapes and still life photographs, observes the publicly private moments of these peregrine foreigners as they attempt to connect back to their homes. In his documentation of migrants and refugees in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Carrier explores the distance between reality and desire – the want for what was and the hope for what will be – and traces the manner in which we navigate the points between the unknowns. His photographs resonate with the sense that in a foreign country geographical distance loses its physical measure and home feels like a hazy memory, a half-remembered dream. My copy arrived yesterday and is fantastic.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 10:51 |
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Spotted this on my G+ feed and liked it. Another wildlife photo
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 16:54 |
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Reichstag posted:
Yeah I love this series. I don't suppose you saw The Garden by Alessandro Imbriaco? I can't actually find the series on his site.
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Syrinxx posted:Spotted this on my G+ feed and liked it. Another wildlife photo I like wildlife photography like this that is not just a technically good photo, but it also displays natural behavior of the animal. I don't want to just see a portrait. I want to see a piece of that animals life.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 19:26 |
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I wonder how long he sat there cursing that he didn't get the entire fox in frame before realizing there was still a good photo in it.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 19:40 |
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xzzy posted:I wonder how long he sat there cursing that he didn't get the entire fox in frame before realizing there was still a good photo in it. Maybe he did get the entire fox in
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 19:44 |
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I suppose that's a valid possibility. But I'd have a hard loving time cropping down if I had the whole animal in the shot. I guess that's what makes him a pro and me not.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 19:48 |
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I reckon he definitely got the whole animal in and cropped it down. Or a tiny bit of its head was cut off and he was cursing his luck until he realised he could do something cool with that.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 20:11 |
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I suspect it was taken with a D4 on high-speed burst, so he probably has the full range of fox through half-fox. edit: http://www.richardpeters.co.uk/blog/2011/02/03/the-shot-that-got-away-aka-always-check-your-settings/ Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Sep 12, 2012 |
# ? Sep 12, 2012 01:03 |
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The internet sure is a grand thing, it can solve any discussion.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 13:59 |
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Yuanling Wang - http://wangyuanling.com/ The complete series. Great work. http://wangyuanling.com/shi-ba-ti/ bobmarleysghost fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Sep 22, 2012 |
# ? Sep 22, 2012 06:14 |
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http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/national-geographic-photo-contest-2012/100373/ Lot of exceptional photos here this year; not everyone is going to like every shot, but 1, 4, 22, and 43 are my personal picks. The last one in particular I can imagine the photographer opening that splitsecond capture in Lightroom and fistpumping 49 gets an honourable mention for it being amusing
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# ? Sep 24, 2012 12:44 |
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This is absurdly good.
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# ? Sep 24, 2012 13:17 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/national-geographic-photo-contest-2012/100373/ Think I more or less agree with your picks, but 36, 38 and 45 are pretty good too.
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# ? Sep 25, 2012 15:33 |
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Saw this today at work and laughed my rear end of at #12. Who the gently caress thinks, "oh there's a leopard, one of natures most awesome apex predators! Let me throw a rock at him and see what happens... "
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 00:50 |
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AceClown posted:Saw this today at work and laughed my rear end of at #12. He was probably trying to scare it away. Obviously it didn't work.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 01:02 |
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Atticus_1354 posted:He was probably trying to scare it away. Obviously it didn't work. Here is a link to what I assume is the shot taken right before that one : http://www.shahidulnews.com/2012/02/14/salil-bera-gets-honourable-mention-in-world-press-photo-contest-2012/
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 01:09 |
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I think I posted Lewis Hine in here already but I've been reading his notes that go with the photos in the LOC site.quote:Preston De Costa, fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bellevue Messenger Service. I ran across him and took photos while he was carrying notes back and forth between a prostitute in jail and a pimp in the Red Light district. He had read all the notes and knew all about the correspondence. He was a fine grained adolescent boy. Has been delivering message and drugs in the Red Light for six months and knows the ropes thoroughly. "A lot of these girls are my regular customers. I carry 'em messages and get 'em drinks, drugs, etc. Also go to the bank with money for them. If a fellow treats 'em right, they'll call him by number and give him all their work. I got a box full of photos I took of these girls - some of 'em I took in their room." Works until 11:00 P.M. Location: San Antonio, Texas. quote:Harry McShane - 134 B'way [I,e, Broadway] -Cin. O. - 16 yrs. of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap, by being caught on belt of a machine in Spring factory in May 1908. Had been working in factory more than 2 yrs. Was on his feet for first time after the accident, the day this photo was taken. No attention was paid by employers to the boy either at hospital or home according to statement of boy's father. No com- pensation. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio. quote:Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young. Location: Atlanta, Georgia. quote:Katie Kuritzko, 7-year-old oyster shucker. Has mumps now. Her 8-year-old brother also shucks. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana. quote:Housing conditions in the settlement of Dunbar. They are better than the average. See church in distance. Have their own jail. Houses and wood furnished. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana. quote:Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Johnnie. Said, "Aint got no last name," when asked for it. 8 years old. Beginning to "help sister spin." Location: Dillon, South Carolina. quote:Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Soarbar Seris, has worked off and on in the mill for 5 years. Winds. Gets 70 cents and up. "Recon I'm about 14." Didn't look it. Has worked more nights than day time. Location: Dillon, South Carolina. quote:Holland Mfg. Co., Gastonia, N.C. 8:00 P.M. Mill running nights. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina quote:Joseph and Rosy, 10 and 8 yrs. old. He sells until evening. She is one of 5 or 6 girls who sell (afternoons) in Newark. Location: Newark, New Jersey quote:Shaw Cotton Mills. An accident case. Alfred Padgett a doffer says he is 13 years old now, but worked when he was 12, and in other mills for 2 years before that. "I got my hand caught in the cogs of the spinning machine last week, and lost part of my finger. It stopped the machine, and I tell you it hurt. It pains me a lot now. Don't you think they orter pat me wages while I'm out with this bad hand? No, I can't read or write, but I think my mammy knows how to spell my name." Not a member of the family could read or write. Location: Weldon, North Carolina. quote:Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the judge think he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas. quote:The first day at school - one of the Pocahontas Co. rural schools. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia Edit; Bonus portrait that I found. Just really love everything about this shot. East Lake fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/national-geographic-photo-contest-2012/100373/ 21 and 22 work together absurdly well. torgeaux fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Sep 26, 2012 |
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Legdiian posted:Here is a link to what I assume is the shot taken right before that one : The best part, I think, is the look of satisfaction on the man's face. *sees a leopard, throws a rock at it* *dusts hands off* Another job well done!
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# ? Sep 29, 2012 21:03 |
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When I visited Custer state park this past summer, they actually recommend throwing rocks and sticks at a mountain lion if you encounter one.. but only if you can get ahold of them without crouching down (which apparently they interpret as a threat that you're going to attack). Those photos have me doubting that strategy.
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# ? Sep 30, 2012 20:00 |
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Antonin Kratochvil is one of my favorite photographers, I love his angles, and he does the blurred/out of focus photos in a way that a lot of people try to pull off, but most the time don't. http://www.antoninkratochvil.com/#/Portfolio/Book%201/5 http://www.antoninkratochvil.com/#/Stories%201/Burma%20Heroin/3 http://www.antoninkratochvil.com/#/Portfolio/Book%201/49
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# ? Oct 1, 2012 03:22 |
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Lucas Foglia
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# ? Oct 2, 2012 17:40 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12imO1nQgQ
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# ? Oct 11, 2012 20:05 |
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The SF MOMA did a Robert Adams exhibit a few years ago and it was the single most boring photo show I've ever seen. Well, in a proper venue, that is. It was his work with tree "portraits", I guess I'd say. The composition was dead on, the lighting and print quality were both super flat. Frankly, I didn't get what all the fuss was about. I see through GIS that a lot of his other work is a lot more dynamic than the tree shots, but man, that show really left a mark on me, even now.
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# ? Oct 11, 2012 21:28 |
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Stumbled upon this randomly on Flickr. God drat. Untitled by BahareH BisheH, on Flickr
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# ? Oct 13, 2012 01:18 |
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http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/16/how-the-government-accidentaly-created-the-golden-age-of-american-photography/ Really good article on Petapixel with some stunning images This owns so hard
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# ? Oct 19, 2012 01:52 |
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a friend just sent me this: http://stephenhilyard.com/gall_rap.htm
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# ? Oct 20, 2012 04:10 |
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I don't know if this has been posted but I find the whole set to be very good: http://holtermand.dk/2258/293375/work/majestics
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# ? Oct 21, 2012 15:13 |
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guidoanselmi posted:a friend just sent me this: These are amazing.
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# ? Oct 21, 2012 20:31 |
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That poo poo's cray cray.
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# ? Oct 23, 2012 14:30 |