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[Donald Qualls]

Hmm. Someone's dog roast is about to taste a little soapy...

 

[Luis Filipe]

View attachment 267278 I’m revisiting a ton of prints. Signing, managing them, packing, moving, logistics.

Depressing exercise, really. The only thing I’m learning from this is that 20 years ago I was a better shooter and printer than today. LoL!

You have a fantastic work to edit, man.

I've been enjoying every single post you done. You should publish it has it looks really valuable for photography lovers.

Has for better shooter years ago, I'm not that long in photography but have a different feeling about my images. When I look at them today I feel them a bit trendy and sensationalist. Some years ago it felt like I knew where I was standing.

 

[NB23]

Thanks!

We are standing on moving grounds. Time has this way of changing things.

My only advice for any artist is to close his world to any outside contamination which invariably means to copying instead of creating. Yes, this includes saying “who?” when you hear the mention of a known artist.

This is also why I mainly follow cute (well, earth shattering, head exploding) beautiful Women on instagram. I don’t follow other artists. Yes, a few, but that’s only out of politeness and support.

You have a fantastic work to edit, man.

I've been enjoying every single post you done. You should publish it has it looks really valuable for photography lovers.

Has for better shooter years ago, I'm not that long in photography but have a different feeling about my images. When I look at them today I feel them a bit trendy and sensationalist. Some years ago it felt like I knew where I was standing.

 

[juan]

It’s interesting to me that musicians are taught to copy the greats in order to learn how to go about playing or composing. Then they are prepared to perform or write their own works. Photographers, however, condemn copying. Perhaps it’s because some photographers actually show their copies or derivatives, or they never advance their won style.

 

[Steve@f8]

Thanks!

We are standing on moving grounds. Time has this way of changing things.

My only advice for any artist is to close his world to any outside contamination which invariably means to copying instead of creating. Yes, this includes saying “who?” when you hear the mention of a known artist.

This is also why I mainly follow cute (well, earth shattering, head exploding) beautiful Women on instagram. I don’t follow other artists. Yes, a few, but that’s only out of politeness and support.

There is some truth in what you wrote. It’s all too easy to flick through photos on twitter and conclude that mediocrity is the standard to aim for. If you look at too much sh1t you’ll end up copying. Better by far to look at art (the stuff done with pencil, pen and brush) and understand the compositional techniques, use of line and form and how to use colour.
As for following cuteness, now that sounds good.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

We all copy what went before. Without that we would all have to start by spraying ocher over our hand prints in a cave and see how fast we can progress from there in one lifetime.

I think I would like to copy Rubens - the heavens opening up with cascading pillows of pulchritude.

The one time I attempted a blatant copy of another photographer it didn't turn out so well. Must have done something wrong.



Sorry, getting a bit OT, but I couldn't help myself.

 

[NB23]

Whaaaa? There is twitter now?

I’m getting too old for this never ending vertigo. My darkroom is, after all, the greatest temple.

There is some truth in what you wrote. It’s all too easy to flick through photos on twitter and conclude that mediocrity is the standard to aim for. If you look at too much sh1t you’ll end up copying. Better by far to look at art (the stuff done with pencil, pen and brush) and understand the compositional techniques, use of line and form and how to use colour.
As for following cuteness, now that sounds good.

 

[Sirius Glass]

It’s interesting to me that musicians are taught to copy the greats in order to learn how to go about playing or composing. Then they are prepared to perform or write their own works. Photographers, however, condemn copying. Perhaps it’s because some photographers actually show their copies or derivatives, or they never advance their won style.

I do not have a problem photographing a subject that famous photographers photographed. I do not try to duplicate what they did, I am doing my interpretation of the subject. After all Heraclitus said, "You cannot step into the same river twice, for other waters are continually flowing on."

 

[Luis Filipe]

Thanks!

We are standing on moving grounds. Time has this way of changing things.

My only advice for any artist is to close his world to any outside contamination which invariably means to copying instead of creating. Yes, this includes saying “who?” when you hear the mention of a known artist.

This is also why I mainly follow cute (well, earth shattering, head exploding) beautiful Women on instagram. I don’t follow other artists. Yes, a few, but that’s only out of politeness and support.

I don't mean necessarily copying, but I admit I feel influenced by some photographers.
Often I ask "why?" when I have a composition in my viewfinder and often I realize that "I'm shooting this fence because it reminds me of Paul Strand" or "I'm shooting this flag in the window because it reminds me of Robert Frank", etc...and I don't think that is bad. I think that has to do with your education trough photography.

Copying for me would be "I'm gonna shoot this fence as if Paul Strand never did it before and make it mine"...

The only way I feel creating something genuine is when I'm taking photographs to my daughter or revisiting something very intimate or personal.

I mean I feel my old photos trendy and sensationalist because I didn't shoot it from the guts, they feel like elaborated to be good looking or to please certain viewers.

 

[MattKing]

Copying can be a good technical exercise.
It can help you recognize how to accomplish what you may want to do.
Sort of like practicing music.

 

[NB23]

That’s what I meant, without explaining it well.
What I was trying to say, simply, was that if you always shot without any exterior reference, you would always feel satisfied about your photography, and obviously it would be different. There would be no “trendy” or “sensationalist” feeling. The only feeling would be “your intent, your guts. You.”

Well that’s how I see things.

I don't mean necessarily copying, but I admit I feel influenced by some photographers.
Often I ask "why?" when I have a composition in my viewfinder and often I realize that "I'm shooting this fence because it reminds me of Paul Strand" or "I'm shooting this flag in the window because it reminds me of Robert Frank", etc...and I don't think that is bad. I think that has to do with your education trough photography.

Copying for me would be "I'm gonna shoot this fence as if Paul Strand never did it before and make it mine"...

The only way I feel creating something genuine is when I'm taking photographs to my daughter or revisiting something very intimate or personal.

I mean I feel my old photos trendy and sensationalist because I didn't shoot it from the guts, they feel like elaborated to be good looking or to please certain viewers.

 

[Luis Filipe]

Copying can be a good technical exercise.
It can help you recognize how to accomplish what you may want to do.
Sort of like practicing music.

Some years ago in a workshop in Portugal we were asked to choose any 3 photographs we like from famous photographers. Then he would choose one of those photographs and we were invited to replicate it in one of the following ways:

- Literally as is.
- As is but with our own vision.
- Something completely different as long as he could identify the chosen photograph.

In this exercise nobody chose to replicate it literally. Basically everyone was being creative using another creation as a reference. And stunning images were presented as I remember.

 

[juan]

I think doing all three would be an even better learning exercise.

 

[Auer]

 

[NB23]

NYC. Not sure what happened on the right side of the frame, probably my hand covering the lens...

 

[Luis Filipe]

"beach photography"

 

[NB23]

Lovely! I looove to shoot on beaches. Copa Cabana during the carnival was a crazy personal experience.

 

[Luis Filipe]

This one is Tulum, very far of Rio's craziness.

 

[Auer]

 

[NB23]

Miami Beach, Fuji C200, elmarit 28mm asph v1.

 

[pbromaghin]

I wonder what might be the closest film to kodachrome available these days?

Run Ektar past a pre-war Tessar and it looks pretty close. My apologies that it isn't anything close to street photography - it's just the closest thing I have to the Kodachrome look:

 

[Sirius Glass]

Run Ektar past a pre-war Tessar and it looks pretty close. My apologies that it isn't anything close to street photography - it's just the closest thing I have to the Kodachrome look:

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But the color of the red rock is way off in the second photograph.

 

[pbromaghin]

But the color of the red rock is way off in the second photograph.

That's why I included it. It reminds me of Kodachrome from the 40s or 50s.

 

[Luis Filipe]

I cant avoid thinking of color film photography without being invaded by Harry Gruyaert, Saul Leiter, Ernst Haas images...

 

[Sirius Glass]

I cant avoid thinking of color film photography without being invaded by Harry Gruyaert, Saul Leiter, Ernst Haas images...

They have never haunted me. I do not ever remember their works. Are they Photrio members?