This LF photog has attitude

cliveh · Oct 16, 2014

Mustafa Umut Sarac said:
If you give me the most expensive large format camera , I have no option to photograph another tasteless painted concrete building. I am not leaving 300 meters diameter around my home for past 12 years and I started to draw my feet lying on the bed occasionally. Every drawing better than the older one and I have a Winsor Water paints and may be I will color it. I smoked 60 cigatettes in 5 hours last night. I think I must buy a classic paint poster and copy it. I have 200 hobbies and subclass is 1000 or more and I am thinking on them.

Do you smoke 60 cigarettes every day, or is this a joke?

Truzi · Oct 16, 2014

cliveh said:
Do you smoke 60 cigarettes every day, or is this a joke?

One would hope it's a joke, but that is basically 3 packs. My father smoked that much despite us wanting him to be a bit more moderate.

Mainecoonmaniac · Oct 16, 2014

I work in an arts ghetto at a university where there are studio art majors, music majors and theatre dance majors. This area had the highest concentration of smokers on campus until we went smoke free this year. I'm wondering if it's cultural or nicotine does something to the brain that enhances creativity?Here in California, it's up to $8 per pack. Ouch.

adelorenzo · Oct 16, 2014

cliveh said:
Real LF photographers don't make videos about their arduous process, they just do it.

He didn't make the video, he is the subject. The video was made by two filmmakers who, I can only assume, were doing what real filmmakers do.

Dinesh · Oct 16, 2014

cliveh said:
Real LF photographers don't make videos about their arduous process, they just do it.

Do real photographers constantly start threads asking banal questions?

Vaughn · Oct 16, 2014

Real photographers make photographs...after that, what they do is quite variable.

wy2l · Oct 16, 2014

Will my photographs be better if I smoke like a chimney and swear like a sailor?

PKM-25 · Oct 16, 2014

It would seem everyone involved with the film agreed that a bit of cinematic flair was in order to be true to his style of shot, warm tones, ambers, dark-ish and moody. I think they nailed it, not some geek who spews out a bunch of numbers and boring ass pictures. I mean, he made the shot availble that he was filmed creating & I am getting a print. I am stoked to be a part of that, I think it is brilliant!

canuhead · Oct 16, 2014

looked like a stealth ad for Filson

Newt_on_Swings · Oct 16, 2014

canuhead said:
looked like a stealth ad for Filson

Filson does make some nice stuff

canuhead · Oct 16, 2014

Newt_on_Swings said:
Filson does make some nice stuff

absolutely ! their shooting jackets are very practical and I can see stuffing the pockets full of film lol

Pioneer · Oct 16, 2014

I am having a hard time figuring out the correlation between cigarette smoking and human intelligence. People do lots of things even though they know they shouldn't do them. Let's see, driving while drunk, driving while texting, driving without seatbelts, and so on. Smoking is only one of mankind's many vices.

As for walking across rough terrain with your camera swinging on the end of a tripod, enjoy yourself. Personally I find that I handle heavy loads better when I carry them in a well-fitted backpack, but that is just me. It is Joe's camera and tripod, and it is his choice to wander about like that. More power to him.

Lets see, there was some swearing. I've been known to do that once in awhile myself.

Have we covered everything? Was there anything constructive about the film? After all, it was an ode to a large format photographer so I'm assuming he took a few pictures and perhaps even talked about it. Course I guess that wasn't as important as the smoking, swearing and camera transportation technique.

EDIT - And Filson is very certainly a great brand.

canuhead · Oct 17, 2014

another thing, he was bare handing his print in Amidol ? if that's what it was...

baachitraka · Oct 17, 2014

In one documentary about Edward Weston,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aE2f07ON4

carrying the camera like in the video.

MrBrowning · Oct 17, 2014

Newt_on_Swings said:
Filson does make some nice stuff

+1

Axle · Oct 17, 2014

Fantastic Video! Thanks for sharing!

Vaughn · Oct 17, 2014

Interesting and enjoyable video -- looks like the eastern part of Washington.

Smoking -- addiction is not greatly affected by intelligence. Nicotine affects the brain, so that could mess up any effect intelligence might have in getting free of the addiction.

Carrying a LF camera -- I rarely carry my 8x10 like that, but I will do it more often with 5x7 and 4x5. A friend once told me, if the camera is out and ready, one might get a photograph that otherwise might have been missed (changing light, etc). That one photograph you missed might make you a lot of money -- more than the camera is worth. I take that with a grain of salt...he is right, but also if you break your camera on a trip -- that means no more photos that trip (that might have been money-makers) and a lot of investment in time, gas and food getting 'wasted'.

Richard Misrach (sp) carried his 8x10 like that -- working out of a shoulder bag. Helps if one is running around trying to photograph desert fires!

cliveh · Oct 17, 2014

Dinesh said:
Do real photographers constantly start threads asking banal questions?

Have you ever started a thread with 15,526 views?

Ken Nadvornick · Oct 17, 2014

Some of us have burned into our memories the sight of 10 or 12 utterly hopeless sets of eyes staring back at us at we pushed the wheelchair into the palliative radiation ward waiting room. Then were forced to watch our patient, diagnosed with emphysema and terminal lung cancer, spend the entire waiting time desperately trying to look away from those glances. Then later try to explain, as gently as we could, why the technicians tattooed the aiming points onto their chest without even bothering to ask for permission.

The last intelligible thing my father was able to utter, between wheezing futile gasps for oxygen from the tubes, was "I can't... believe... I did this... to myself..."

No righteous sermons here. But as an expression of good faith some may wish to reread that last sentence.

Ken

c6h6o3 · Oct 17, 2014

I have several of Joe's prints, and they are evidence of the fact that he is one of the finest printers in the world. I've seen Ansel Adams prints that wouldn't get past Joe's darkroom trash can. If you click on the link on his website, you can Dead Link Removed until the end of the year. That's an incredible bargain.

OMG he dropped an F-bomb! And what's worse, HE SMOKES! Somebody call the police! Just wait until after he makes my print and sends it to me, ok?

Eric Rose · Oct 17, 2014

wy2l said:
Will my photographs be better if I smoke like a chimney and swear like a sailor?

Probably

Eric Rose · Oct 17, 2014

Loved the video. HOWEVER if I ever hear music described as the analog of photography again I will hurl.

c6h6o3 · Oct 17, 2014

Eric Rose said:
Loved the video. HOWEVER if I ever hear music described as the analog of photography again I will hurl.

You and me both, brother. Attempts to make such associations serve only to betray one's ignorance of both forms of expression.

pdeeh · Oct 17, 2014

And yet, St. Ansel came down from the mountain and did say "The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance."; And the Children of APUG were sore bemused, and did hurl mighty into the deep of the night

Amen

Mainecoonmaniac · Oct 17, 2014

There was a staff photographer now retired here from UCD that told me he saw Ansel Adams riding pack horses to carry his camera gear in Yosemite.

This LF photog has attitude

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