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Post by Just Plain Curt on Nov 11, 2008 22:38:06 GMT -5
Snow photos are cool, get it, huh huh get it, LOL? Seriously, nice job capturing this image on film. My snow photos always look too washed out no matter what I try.
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Post by minoltaman on Nov 13, 2008 10:25:01 GMT -5
I can't believe 1980 is almost 30 years ago! I feel old. Feel like it was yesterday. I remember John Lennon was shot on the 8th that month of that year.
Like Curt said, nice job get that white snow to look so white without blowing out the details.
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Post by Wahoo on Jan 31, 2009 10:54:36 GMT -5
I remember John Lennon was shot on the 8th that month of that year. Tommy and Curt, thank you for your kind words, I did check and the 'snow' photo at the page top was taken on Sunday 7th. December 1980 with a Rolleiflex f3.5. This one below was last April with a Canon AE1 ssc and scanned on an Epson v500.
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Post by John Parry on Jan 31, 2009 12:20:19 GMT -5
Danny
That one is superb! The photo itself is magic, but I'm chuckling at the subject. Four young people making statements that I couldn't begin to fathom. But how effective they all were!
Magic!
Regards - John
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Post by PeterW on Jan 31, 2009 17:04:59 GMT -5
I agree with John; very nice opportune street shot. I love street and market shots and they always seem to look more effective in black and white - possibly because they carry with them an aura of the great days of street shooting for the picture magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, like Picture Post and Illustrated in the UK. People often talk about the street shots of people like Bill Brandt and Cartier Bresson. Both were superb but whereas Bresson shot as he saw things, Brandt almost always got the co-operation of the people in his pictures and got them to act out what he'd just seen happen, almost like a film director. He must have been a real smooth talker. Many people, however overlook an earlier master, Paul Martin in the 1800s. He used to walk around London with a plate camera wrapped in brown paper to look like a parcel tucked under his arm, not to be sneaky but because a camera of any sort in those days immeiately attracted attention. When you think of the difficulties under which he worked and the equipment and emulsions of the day, he was a real pioneer. His pictures of street life tell you more about ordinary people in late Victorian London than pages and pages of description. It isn't easy to find Martin's pictures on the internet, just odd examples here and there, but I have a book of some of his photographs called 'Victorian Candid Camera'. Well worth getting if you see it. Average price from book dealers in the UK seems to be around £7. As soon as the weather gets a bit warmer I want to get out and take a lot more street and market pictures. No-one seems to take any notice of an ancient old codger sitting in a wheelchair or an electric invalid buggy holding a camera. They probably think he's just a harmless old eccentric. Well, I've never denied it. . peterW
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Post by Randy on Jan 31, 2009 23:43:43 GMT -5
It is a neat photo. That bloke has some jewelry on his puss.
Peter, unless your face has changed since the last photo I saw of you, harmless isn't a word I'd use. You still have a bit of the dickens in you, right?
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Post by Wahoo on Feb 10, 2009 18:36:40 GMT -5
Thanks everyone, below is a pic of a 1897 Victoria's Jubilee brass church lectern - September 2008. If you look at the lower middle (in between the scatches) maybe, you can just see a reflection of yours truely
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