Who are some good photographers on Flickr

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Why can't some people on APUG embrace digital technology as an advancement for showing images produced on film?
 

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cliveh said:
Why can't some people on APUG embrace digital technology as an advancement for showing images produced on film?
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There is nothing wrong with being mostly interested in prints, and preferring one print type over others.

ic-racer only referred to his preferences, not others.

I'm frustrated by Flickr, and intrigued by it, but I too still prefer prints or projected slides.
 

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Richard S. (rich815) said:
Exactly! And let me add I hate conversations by phone. They're not real. Only face to face is best. My friends in Europe, Asia and back east completely understand why they never hear from me.
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Nahhh...

If all one requires is merely an accurate exchange of verbal information, then the abstraction of a remote telephone conversation is all that is required to get the job done. And done well.

However, if one seeks a deeper level of exchange that may encompass the full range of communication tools available beyond just raw verbiage (including eye contact, body language, etc.), then the telephone abstraction model falls woefully short. In such cases an honest-to-goodness in-person real conversation is usually the better alternative.

An example?

All other things being equal, if you're going to ask the girl to marry you, which type of conversation might you guess holds the best chance of eliciting a positive response? Getting down on one knee (body language), looking up at her (eye contact), and asking her face-to-face?

...or leaving a message on her telephone answering machine?



Ken
 
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cliveh said:
Why can't some people on APUG embrace digital technology as an advancement for showing images produced on film?
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a lot do cliveh, a lot do ..
but to a certain extant i agree,
its not quite the same as the-real-thing
its close, and fun, and nice, but the real thing to me, at least
is a bit better ( and i am not too particular in how the real thing is made )
 

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pdeeh said:
oh good heavens, don't be such a sanctimonious prig!
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By what word would one be known if one comments on processing and printing when analyzing a faux photographic print? Fool? Gullible? Ignorant?
 

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By what word would one be known if one comments on processing and printing when analyzing a faux photographic print? Fool? Gullible? Ignorant?
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hi ic

its the same language as a physical print.
in the end is it just suggestions,
and i think people receiving comments on
processing and printing of images, lets say,
in the apug gallery for example ...
look forward to suggestions on whatever it might be
they are being helped on. whether or not there is a
physical print being fascimile'd as electronic media
i don't really think someone commenting, suggesting
offering help, analyzing, making comments, or commentary
feels foolish, gullible or ignorant. not sure why anyone would feel those ways.
maybe you might, but i don't ... and having a subscription here for IDK 12 years
and having browsed the gallery since the day i first joined, i haven't ever seen or heard
of anyone even thinking they were fooled, or were gullible or ignorant ... maybe
there are some people who deliberately "con" others by suggesting images are something that they aren't
might fall into that category, but i've never really seen that, here, at dpug or on flickr ...

ymmv
 

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OK, I have just taken myself downstairs and given myself an uppercut. I'm sorry to the OP, as it looks like I started an inadvertent Digital Vs Real World shit fight, which I had no intention of doing.

So, to attempt to fix my wrongs I am going to make a simple plea.

Can We Please Get This Back On Topic???!!!!!

While Flickr has its faults, it still is a great community and a great way for people to share images instantly across the world! I still look at Flickr daily to see what has been posted by those who I follow. I still get a great deal of inspiration.

Cheers and I am off to hang my head in shame.
 

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Malinku said:
I really like the work of Colton Allen.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/daiku_san
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Agreed, Colton, also known as Daiku-san, has an excellent eye. He can find beauty and interest in supposedly mundane scenes and objects.

In case you didn't know, Colton suffers from ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, and is confined to a wheelchair. Please consider making a donation to the ALS Association http://www.alsa.org/ to aid in research to defeat this debilitating disease.
 

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ic-racer said:
By what word would one be known if one comments on processing and printing when analyzing a faux photographic print? Fool? Gullible? Ignorant?
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I'd think that commenting on the quality of processing and printing film without being able to see the print or negative less than useful.

On the other hand, the thread was started for people to suggest photographers they liked on Flickr, and not the thread you seem to be referring to which is called something like "is flickr the best place to find good examples of processing and printing?", and which doesn't seem to exist.

However, I would call the activity of dumping a controversial and contemptuous comment into a thread in which the poster has no other interest "trolling".
 

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Colton Allen is also known as swift1. And he sells his prints not for profit, but to donate to medical studies. Please, support him.
Also here is one collodion artist he is on local Galleries as well. Very professional work.
I'm not going to endorse anyone else. Tastes are so different. At least mine, I'm off from the Flickr crowd, which seems to be mostly distasteful and primitive to me.

Regarding embracing digital on A.P.U.G. Hell, no. I came to A.P.U.G. not because I'm hipster with film camera as part of the garderobe or gearhead with GAS. No, I like and practice analog photography.
I'm not following, not looking at digital images on Flickr. Zero interest in digital in terms of art.

Regarding looking at prints and not looking at Flickr. I'm studying GW work at one of the online archives. It is scans of the darkroom prints in 99%. A lot to learn and discover.
One thing I confirmed for me with studying of Winogrand's prints on-line - I like prints scans, not negs scans. Darkroom prints scans are free of crap coming from negs scans, which gearheads calling as details.
I also switched to show my bw film pictures online as prints scans, not so long time ago. It was growing on me for year or so, before I started doing it.
 

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At the moment I am really loving the work of Leo Berne among the many other people I follow on Flickr.
 

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he's not on flickr but on DPUG.ORG !!

http://www.dpug.org/forums/members/nhemann.html

every time i look at his work my mind is blown.
beautifully composed, beautiful story-line, great camera-work.
i always look forward to his next post !

can't wait for the 2 sites to be joined so you too can just plug his user name in and see his work without switching sites !
 

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Presenting nominal images on the web might be fine for certain purposes. But otherwise, using this as your standard visual fare is like college kids getting drunk on raunchy Keystone Beer at a frat party. They haven't developed much taste yet, let alone moderation.
 

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cliveh said:
Why can't some people on APUG embrace digital technology as an advancement for showing images produced on film?
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I thought most of us do.?
I have seen Thousand upon Thousands of excellent digital photos.
I shoot film because that happens to be what i like to do.
LOTS of amazing talent walking around with digital cameras.
ic-racer said:
I don't browse those forums. Unless I can hold the print in my hand, it is otherwise digital.
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You have never had a digital photo in your hands.?
 
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