Recent content by nikos79

Nearly everything AI now facilitates in Lightroom or other photo editing tools has its roots in the darkroom, where experienced and skilled printers shaped images to their will through exceptional craft. It was just more time consuming so not many bothered to do these changes in the past. Seen...

Another anecdote about Bruce Davidson is from a time he came to Athens for an exhibition curated by the Hellenic American Union. One evening, he was invited out to a local neighbourhood where there was live music. As always, he had his camera with him. At some point, the singer came onstage...

A quote by John Szarkowsky: “Few contemporary photographers present their impressions so free of embellishment—so unburdened by contrivance and artifice as Bruce Davidson does. In his work, technical and formal considerations remain invisible beneath the surface. The presence that fills these...

Same here :)

There are a couple of images in that YouTube video are not from HCB. For example these two photos I recognised being from other photographers: 1. Piergiorgio Branzi at 7:05 2. John Leonard at 7:13 Also the swinging girl at 01:53 I doubt is HCB. But I also have no clue who the photographer...

Don’t know how relevant it is but I saw recently some forums made especially for AI bots to chat. Their complaints were hilarious e.g. “Look what this stupid human asked me to do again”

Especially you and me we should run Turing Tests on each other 😉

Think about the Kertesz photo with the broken plate glass for example. It was a dark room accident, but he chose it and for very good reason.

Personally I wouldn’t care that much about how a photo was taken. He might have taken it by pressing the shutter by mistake or he might have waited for a whole month for it to happen as he wanted. But by him choosing it, he makes a statement, that this photo fits into his artistic vision and...

there is also another thing: 50mm is the more discreet or neutral lens. It doesn’t overwhelm with its form. I have the feeling HCB preferred things simple, no contrast exaggeration or dark room manipulations and the choice of a 50mm supports this philosophy

Indeed according to ChatGPT: In practice, your experienced visual field isn’t fixed at any focal length — it behaves like: A wide angle for context A telephoto for detail And an infinite variety in between, depending on attention No physical camera lens can do that automatically and...

Sure these estimates were oversimplified and approximated used mostly as a funny analogy But in an essence there is some science behind them

I think I got some first numbers after searching a bit (they might be wrong) Focal Lens: 43mm Aperture: f2.1-f8 (mostly between f2.1-f3.8) ISO: 1 (!) - 800,000 (mostly during the day between 100-1000) So HCB better have done some modifications to his Leica :smile:

As for our native resolution I remember reading somewhere it is above 100 MP