Analog gets the last laugh

bluez · Mar 11, 2019

I just want to share a photo i took recently. I was out taking picures in the fog. I was down and to the right side of the bridge when a biker came, not noticing me. He stopped at the end of the bridge took out his hi-tech phone and used facetime or somthing similar to show a video and discusse the fog with someone. Meanwhile i moved up to the end of the bridge with my 40 year old mamiya and took a picture. He diden't notice me at all, and moved on just after.

(Mamiya RB67 Pro-s, 90mm K/L, Portra 400, Tripod 1/4 sec)

trendland · Mar 11, 2019

bluez said:
I just want to share a photo i took recently. I was out taking picures in the fog. I was down and to the right side of the bridge when a biker came, not noticing me. He stopped at the end of the bridge took out his hi-tech phone and used facetime or somthing similar to show a video and discusse the fog with someone. Meanwhile i moved up to the end of the bridge with my 40 year old mamiya and took a picture. He diden't notice me at all, and moved on just after.

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(Mamiya RB67 Pro-s, 90mm K/L, Portra 400, Tripod 1/4 sec)

And now ? Well bluez - now you are a "modern" Henry Catier Bresson !
(getting the "right moment" ).

with regards

Eric Rose · Mar 11, 2019

Certainly captures what our society is today. Lonely people only able to share their life and connect to another human being via facetime.

nmp · Mar 11, 2019

Eric Rose said:
Certainly captures what our society is today. Lonely people only able to share their life and connect to another human being via facetime.

Certainly captures what our society is today. Lonely people being able to share their life and connect to another human being via facetime.

A positive take...

faberryman · Mar 11, 2019

How did analog get the last laugh?

nmp · Mar 11, 2019

Nice image.

About the laugh...you don't know what he said about you on Facebook....

Paul Verizzo · Mar 11, 2019

Nice image!

I thought by the title that perhaps you were going to mention something I just saw on a digital forum.......if I have this right, a new Fuji digicam can now mimic Acros film!" Yes, that's right, your 24mp wonder can put the grain back in!

How do "they", and the buyers of, do this with a straight face? Do they not see the irony? Apparently not. Guess you need D-76 for that.

bluez · Mar 12, 2019

nmp said:
Nice image.

About the laugh...you don't know what he said about you on Facebook....

I don't think he saw me

faberryman said:
How did analog get the last laugh?

I am not sure if it really did, but the situation was kind of funny in a strange way.

Wallendo · Mar 12, 2019

Eric Rose said:
Certainly captures what our society is today. Lonely people only able to share their life and connect to another human being via facetime.

On the other hand, he might enjoy photography/videography and wanted to remember this moment.

Or, he wants to share an image with someone he cares about.

How we interpret this image, to a great extent, depends on to which direction his phone camera was pointed, i.e., whether this is a normal photograph or a selfie.

jtk · Mar 13, 2019

How could he have missed the weird guy with the giant, noisy Mamiya ?

Maybe the answer is that he was in bliss. Looks like that to me.

As for "our society," I think bicyclists like that have one answer.

That's a fine digital image. Digital tech does tend to overpower low lighting situations, but that's easily compensated-for in post.

Arklatexian · Mar 30, 2019

Eric Rose said:
Certainly captures what our society is today. Lonely people only able to share their life and connect to another human being via facetime.

I thought it was a damn nice picture, as a picture, not as a representation of what is right or wrong with today's society. In this case, to me, it was a fine picture of a photographer taking a picture in the fog. This was not as we used to say at photo-competitions, "just another photograph, NEXT PICTURE PLEASE!.........Regards!

Theo Sulphate · Mar 30, 2019

bluez said:
I don't think he saw me ...

I'm certain he did not see you, as I explain below.

jtk said:
How could he have missed the weird guy with the giant, noisy Mamiya ? ...

Young Norwegians are unable to see tripods or objects near tripods. I discovered this some years ago while walking towards Rådhuset in Oslo: a young man was walking in the same direction, a few meters from me, when I spotted a surveyor in the distance who was looking through his scope at a marker disk. The disk, like a large hockey puck, was about two meters from us. I walked around the marker, but the young man, oblivious to the surveyor, kicked the disk away and then smiled at me, saying "Hva har de det?" while the surveyor's head popped up from the scope to see what happened.

bluez · Mar 30, 2019

I am not sure why, but he didn't turn to look in my direction even after the exposure, too busy talking perhaps. Not sure if I feel the RB67 is so noisy. This summer i tried to take a few pictures in a busy marketplace with my M645 pro with winder I was thinking that know one would notice, but they all instantly turned and looked at me. Sometimes norwegians do notice the tripods, because I have been asked a couple of times about what i am making footage of. This days a tripod and a RB67 looks like a pro film/video camera I guess.

removed account4 · Mar 30, 2019

faberryman said:
How did analog get the last laugh?

IDK maybe because in 40 years his phone will be out of date ?
or because the person the OP photographed is on the "national do not call list", the telemarketers
spoofed his mom's phone number, he answered the phone and they want to buy his time share?
I usually answer my shoe when I'm riding my bike. I don't have caller ID and its usually Laraby calling from a rubbish bin.

guangong · Mar 30, 2019

Bluez, what a beautiful picture! You must have been aware, prepared and with the gods on your side to capture this one. The proof of you success is the variety of interpretations offered above.

Chan Tran · Mar 30, 2019

bluez said:
I am not sure why, but he didn't turn to look in my direction even after the exposure, too busy talking perhaps. Not sure if I feel the RB67 is so noisy. This summer i tried to take a few pictures in a busy marketplace with my M645 pro with winder I was thinking that know one would notice, but they all instantly turned and looked at me. Sometimes norwegians do notice the tripods, because I have been asked a couple of times about what i am making footage of. This days a tripod and a RB67 looks like a pro film/video camera I guess.

He might have seen you but an old guy with a big old camera and tripod? Not worth a look.

Theo Sulphate · Mar 30, 2019

It's difficult to articulate, but the cyclist with cellphone makes the photo perfect. To me, the photo captures and contrasts both eternity, in the trees and fog, and Man's own thin sliver of contemporary time.

Ko.Fe. · Mar 30, 2019

faberryman said:
How did analog get the last laugh?

And why bicyclist should have been notice? He most likely noticed and gave no crap. Which is normal reaction. If it would be on the top of the mountain in Norway where is nobody, then this would be odd.

minh0204 · Apr 5, 2019

He was able to share an intimate moment with his loved ones, probably miles away, and you get to share your and his moment with a bunch of random strangers online. I'd say digital gets the last laugh, no matter how you look at it.

MattKing · Apr 5, 2019

minh0204 said:
He was able to share an intimate moment with his loved ones, probably miles away, and you get to share your and his moment with a bunch of random strangers online. I'd say digital gets the last laugh, no matter how you look at it.

Of course, it is equally likely that he was sharing with his 863 Instagram followers, none of whom have actually met him or spoken with him or communicated with him privately.
There is no way we will ever know - unless of course he somehow comes upon this thread!

Theo Sulphate · Apr 5, 2019

minh0204 said:
He was able to share an intimate moment with his loved ones, probably miles away, and you get to share your and his moment with a bunch of random strangers online. I'd say digital gets the last laugh, no matter how you look at it.

Well, the OP can share the photo with friends, family, and loved ones as well.

But this shouldn't be a digital vs analog way of viewing things. It is a very good photo and the person in the distance holding up the phone is part of what makes the photo good.

AgX · Apr 6, 2019

bluez said:
I just want to share a photo i took recently.

(Mamiya RB67 Pro-s, 90mm K/L, Portra 400, Tripod 1/4 sec)

Where is the hybrid workflow?
I am puzzled.

Analog gets the last laugh

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