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echinopsis posted:turns out however you can appreciate things for many different reasons. some of these reasons might be deep and incrimohrensible by others. you just like advertising. those images are selling you the idea of being cool, or skinny, or young, or sexualized, or the idea that you're the cool photographer taking pictures of women who want to undress in front of you. they're selling you a lifestyle, and we grow up in a society where we're sold that visual lifestyle our entire lives. i don't think it's a mystery or incomprehensible why you'd find them alluring.
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horny for symbolism  
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i find the lifted blacks thing kind of funny because yeah it's mimicking "film", but really it's mimicking badly scanned film, but it doesn't really even matter anyways. there's lots of mavica photos posted in this thread and lots of chatter online about zoomers getting really into digital point and shoots, not even the shittiest ones, but it's just yearning for some nostalgia of an imagined past. like the bad scans themselves become nostalgic because people experience film through that perspective, regardless of their "authenticity" of how film actually looks, the same way people imagine the 60s as sort of a colorless faded wasteland because they experience things through photo albums decades later that were printed on unstable mediums. it's cool sometimes i guess but after a while it just feels like a surface-level visual communication of nostalgia without anything backing it up
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like at some point i imagine people will be nostalgic for fake scanlines on cgi'd-in television sets in media set in the 80s but filmed in the 2020s instead of actual tube tvs
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yeah there's definitely something to mimicking the print itself. that guy does it a bit too far for me and it just reads as "using the same lightroom presets" instead of a careful application per-image to suit it it's actually pretty cool to print images and scan them back in, definitely gives that look in a very natural feeling way
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oh  lol
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Achmed Jones posted:
first one is better, don't overthink it, dog looks good
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the criticism of your curation felt more like "of course you like this" rather than saying horny itself was bad fwiw
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Achmed Jones posted:i think the thing that colors this conversation is that nearly all heterosexual males have shared your taste at some point in their lives. part of having such viewpoints in our pasts is that we definitionally view them as immature. i think it's not even that heterosexual males have shared the taste, but that it's fundamentally rooted in a nostalgia for a perceived past. swinging on rope swings, tradwife dress, hazy sunsets, etc., it's all calling back to the past in one way or another, and for me, personally, i've started to think that idealizing that rosy version of the past (especially in a white heteronormative sense) is a privilege itself. it's the taste of people who yearn for the past where other people were oppressed, even if that's not what they're thinking of. i've always struggled to put it into effective words but the images feel very conservative, they're rooted in the past, and they're not challenging me or anyone to move into the future. of course there's always joy in being nostalgic so it's fine to like them and want to take them. but it's also not unreasonable for people to look at them and not like what they represent
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it's the same ideological event happening now but with slightly different people, i felt the same way about dash snow and ryan mcginley photos 15 years ago. and yeah the analysis is definitely nothing fresh
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echinopsis posted:I would be interested for people to share some "inspo" that they think is good and not boring or horny or whatever here's some projects i've been thinking of lately https://garrettgrove.com/errorsofpossession - i think this is a good "straight" contemporary photography series http://www.everythingiscollective.com/projects/imaginedgeographies.html - i really like this as a way of looking at how the way we perceive the outdoors in the united states is almost entirely intentionally designed, and how that sort of visual engineering translates to how we view photographs and visual art http://www.stevefitch.com/diesels-and-dinosaurs/ - this older series of someone examining their childhood nostalgia has me thinking about how we manufacture nostalgia generationally and how that decays
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akadajet posted:when you went to the drug store and they printed your film, the processor didn't make everything low contrast the low contrast stuff comes from people getting lab scans (frontier/noritsu) of badly exposed consumer grade film, drop off a roll of kodak gold you shot wildly underexposed because you don't know how to meter and get jpegs back and they'll look grainy as all hell with not a single pixel of actual black in it
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Corla Plankun posted:remember how y'all were complaining that the dork room was a toxic environment a few days ago before y'all started doing dogpiles every day instead of posting cool photos? i remember the "dorkroom regular" was inside of your heads all along
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the famous film stock UNFOLD
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backlit images are always going to appear a bit brighter than a print
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qirex posted:what should we call this, mavicacore? "film" shooters stop taking pictures of brake lights challenge 2023
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i have elevated myself from being a Film Lifestyle guy. i am now a Medium Format Digital lifestyle guy
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wait until you find out about peter lik
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 i'm learning how to process digital photos after a decade of shooting only film, it's not too bad
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