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Awkward Davies posted:Stumbled on this recently. I love how subtly he is able to change the environment with just these wrappings: Haha this is messing with my head so much
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That's pretty simple but very effective. I always wondered how fine art photographers get that fine art look to their photos, they havea very recognizable desaturated look to them.
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Santa is strapped posted:I always wondered how fine art photographers get that fine art look to their photos, they havea very recognizable desaturated look to them. Yeah, they certainly do.
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Herein I correct my previous statement to "a lot" instead of all.
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Santa is strapped posted:Herein I correct my previous statement to "a lot" instead of all. They still show more restraint than people who push the sliders right and make awful over saturated crap. I think the difference is they take photos of highly saturated colours, but not crank the saturation on the photo after, necessarily.
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Santa is strapped posted:Herein I correct my previous statement to "a lot" instead of all. Half the photos in the link you quoted are high contrast and full of saturated color, so I'm a little confused about what you mean.
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Reichstag posted:Half the photos in the link you quoted are high contrast and full of saturated color, so I'm a little confused about what you mean. I think what he's really asking is "How do I make my images look like they were shot on Kodachrome?" Which, actually, I'd be interested in. I'm not going to waste Kodachrome actually shooting, but I'd love to be able to do some post on some of my photos and get that retro/"desaturated" feel. Should I just use Instagram?
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Kodachrome is not the "art look".
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Let me restate: choice of film stock, contrast, and saturation are not what make the "art look".
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TomR posted:They still show more restraint than people who push the sliders right and make awful over saturated crap. I think the difference is they take photos of highly saturated colours, but not crank the saturation on the photo after, necessarily. Yes, that is a good way of putting it. Reichstag posted:Half the photos in the link you quoted are high contrast and full of saturated color, so I'm a little confused about what you mean. I know what you mean, they are saturated. It's just that a lot of the fine art that I've seen has less saturated colours, clear colours but less saturated I mean. I have previously seen 3 of the 4 links you posted as well, so I do know that there is a lot of saturated fine art photos. Like dukeku said as well, the de/saturation alone does not equal fine art. But the palette that is in the trees photo is what I imagine when I hear fine art.
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It's denigrating to think the medium of an artist is what makes their work art.
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In other news, these are pretty good you guys http://www.retronaut.co/2011/02/shackletons-antarctica-in-colour-1915/
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Those Murray Fredericks shots of the Salt Plains are the only photographs that have ever made me instantly want to hang them on my walls. I've very little experience in all this - can you get hold of these things or are these the type of prints that only hang in galleries?
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Irina Werning http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/   
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No idea who took it for I imagine it to be a snapshot. Regardless, it's still amazing.
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HeyEng posted:No idea who took it for I imagine it to be a snapshot. Regardless, it's still amazing. Man, that's really cool. I imagine that was fun to watch/feel take off. It used to be posted on dodmedia.osd.mil with this information: quote:A ground-to-air left rear view of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft taking off from a fog-shrouded runway. The SR-71 is flown by Det. 4, 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, 3rd Air Force, RAF Mildenhall.
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Saw this on Gizmodo - this crazy russian chic did an UrbEx shoot in an old, but still active missile factory. http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/160176.html#cutid1 http://animalnewyork.com/2012/01/urban-exploring-a-russian-rocket-plant/
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The Denver Post just published Craig Walker's excellent photo story on an Iraq vet returning home and coping with PTSD: http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2012/01/05/captured-welcome-home-the-story-of-scott-ostrom/5172/ And in case you haven't seen it, Walker won a Pulitzer a couple years ago for his story on Ian Fisher: "This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat." http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/specialprojects/ianfisher/photochapters.html
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This forum seems to love pointing out terrible photos, let's get some love for good work Julia Peirone 
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dukeku posted:This forum seems to love pointing out terrible photos, let's get some love for good work I'm failing to see the awesome anywhere in this series. Todd Hido is sick though.
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Don't Herman Cain me and ask me my question back so you can get your answer. They're 'awesome' because they're non-typical portraits of teenagers. Rolling eyes, hair twirling, gum popping. Having the intent to go and take a photo of something most people would usually throw out is what makes it special.
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You see, he was trying to capture the subject when they WEREN'T posed. It's like an ironic portrait. The colors are decent, but the concept is ... I dunno. Every once in awhile when I'm shooting with someone and we're just joking around I'll do it, but I don't think it's compelling enough to do/post a whole series. Agreed, though - Todd Hido is great.
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I understand the concept, but either the execution isn't good enough (they look forced) or the concept isn't strong enough for a whole series. They just seem dull, which is probably the point, but it doesn't come across in a pleasing way.
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dukeku posted:Todd Hido This stuff is really cool. I like that there's a consistent tone between the buildings he shoots and his portraits.
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I'm a huge fan of Rafael Alcacer's portraits, expecially of his family. Unfortunately, he has no website, and keeps very little up for long on his flickr.dukeku posted:This one in particular is fantastic, I'm not crazy about the rest.
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Reichstag posted:I'm a huge fan of Rafael Alcacer's portraits, expecially of his family. Unfortunately, he has no website, and keeps very little up for long on his flickr. Those are rad awesome Reichstag posted:This one in particular is fantastic, I'm not crazy about the rest. I'm staring at Aperture #205 where there are a few more prints of shots as strong as the linked one (IMO) that aren't posted on her website. I think they fall more into the scoffing teenager style than the ones on her website, which seem to be more 'off'. But maybe it's just because everything looks better in print... 
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dukeku posted:And another classic, Joel Meyerowitz You are going to have to walk me through why these are awesome. They strike me as technically good snapshots. Especially the last one.
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Demon_Corsair posted:You are going to have to walk me through why these are awesome. They strike me as technically good snapshots. Especially the last one. I don't think the shots are intended to viewed as single images, but as part of an entire series with a singular intention.
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Demon_Corsair posted:You are going to have to walk me through why these are awesome. They strike me as technically good snapshots. Especially the last one. What makes a snapshot? What differentiates a haphazard glance and a shutter press from a deliberate, thought-out landscape? Look at the way things are structured in each image - the vanishing point on the horizon, the verticals along frame edges that 'fence' the viewer in, the way different temperatures of light are used to paint splashes of color. Spedman has a point re: the last image. I tend to like images that are 'portraits' of something that we tend to ignore.
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dukeku posted:And another classic, Joel Meyerowitz God, I wish I was born about twenty years earlier. I've never seen him, I love it.
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dukeku posted:Many places exist that still look the same Yeah, stuff like that is still all over the place in the midwest. But you're not gonna get the same cars parked in front of them (or if they are, the tires are gonna be flat and the panels 90% rust.. which would also make a great picture, now that I think about it).
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One thing to remember about the old color 'art' photos is that they're not usually nostalgic - how can you be nostalgic about the present?
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Not anyone specific, but this entire series is pretty much required viewing for anyone with the slightest interest in photography http://www.veoh.com/watch/v6979965Z5ZpMaRd From that link you can dig around and see all 6 episodes. It's fascinating and a brilliant eye opener to photography
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The BBC (mostly via BBC4) have done a reasonable number of Photography related documentaries in recent years. Last month there was the Rankin fronted America in Pictures - The Story of Life Magazine (available here) (BBC4 and Rankin have previously teamed up for Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion, and South Africa in Pictures)
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