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Aaron Hobson - Cenemascapes is one of my current favorites. I really love the way he combines landscapes and portraits, strengthening both with the inclusion of the other. His color palettes also really stick out to me in a good way, and I basically just love his whole style. http://aaronhobson.com/2007.html  Click here for the full 640x384 image.  Click here for the full 1015x500 image.
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As someone with no art background, to me paintings (that is a painting right?) like that remind me of color test photos. Technically nice, but I don't see the point. I can appreciate the weight and values, but it just seems technical and without any context.
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I'm pretty sure he just works in nice ambient and puts a lot of post into his work.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Stumbled across this photographer's self-portrait series when I was perusing featured examples on 4ormat. Her other work is also very good. None of the photos will load for me. In fact, no photos on any 4ormat site will. Guess I won't be going with them for my site redesign...
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Those are the types of works that are truly amazing to see in person. I could look at those for hours and pick out all the cool stuff.
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 No backdrops, just good lighting. I think he's actually shooting a wider DoF and narrowing it down in post.
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:I don't mean to make any waves, but as creative and technically good as those photos are, I still think 365s are very, very lame. I mean, shouldn't your subject be something a little bit more foreign and interesting than your own self? They're not always self portrait projects.
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This blew my mind, it's a digital/real photo recreation series done in Half Life 2. album here; http://imgur.com/a/XACpw 
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Great photojournalism of floods in Bangkok; http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/bangkok-underwater/100178/
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That is a crazy shot, but where are all the lights? It's wrapping from all around this side but you can't see any on the other end really.
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What kind of film is that stuff taken on? The colors are gorgeous.
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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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What's so awesome about them?
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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: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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Well first off, people here use the term snapshot to mean a boring photo, regardless of how it was taken. That said, a true snapshot can make a great photo. Being in the right place at the right time is a big part of photography. Ansel Adams famously said "You don't take a photograph, you make it", but I'm inclined to disagree. You can both take a photograph or make one. Photojournalism for example, is all about being in an environment, reading the story of a people/place, and capturing it. I consider this taking a photo, and as such a "snapshot" can be amazing. On the other hand, photos that are created, either with posing, staging, lighting, setup, etc can be amazing as well. One is not better than the other, and capturing a photo on a whim does not preclude it from being great, or else half of our art would be worthless on the base of it being snapshots.
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For anyone with an ipad, iphone, or itouch Apple's new itunesU has a series of lectures by Todd Hido. There are also a lot of courses on photography in general, pretty cool stuff worth checking out.
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A5H posted:I'm well into these: I would have never guessed what those were, drat.
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xzzy posted:I wonder how many places in the world you could get a basketball court, a church, and a missile in the same frame. Quite a few, at least here in the south.
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Reichstag posted:I saw the original giant print comps of the F1 stuff and it left me completely cold. Aside from forcing comparison to tableaux vivant, there is almost nothing of substance there. It's supposed to be focused on the theatrical I suppose, but it just draws attention to the empty spectacle of the work. I guess I don't speak "art" but I have no clue what you're saying. Could you explain it to me like I'm five? I'm actively learning some art history and works I should know and I'm struggling to understand a lot of it without having someone that can explain it. I don't get the first image at all. I don't dislike it, it's just completely flat and boring to me. The F1 shot is fascinating and looks like it had to have been staged, but I love the theatrical vibe it gives. The third is interesting because it's such a weird landscape.
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Athens in Flames http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/athens-in-flames/100244/  
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Xavier Rey is one of my favorite landscape photographers. Great stuff. http://www.xavierrey.com/crbst_167.html
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Some great work from the late Tim Hertherington, an inside look at the lives of soldiers. http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/04/15/147672749/late-photographer-tim-hetheringtons-work-showed-interior-lives-of-soldiers
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William Albert Allard: Five Decades Incredible photojournalist for Nat Geo. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/10/allards-west/allard-photography
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It's being hammered right now because of Reddit, but this is a great set of 4x5 Kodachromes from WW2. I've been really enjoying WW2 era photos lately, and these are fantastic. http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/4x5-kodachromes/ 
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Santa is strapped posted:So this guy takes pretty amazing photos. I think the subject matter is very interesting, and technically they're fine, but the style is just like every art school portfolio I've seen in the past X years.
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Haha, ok? Just saying, it's good work, just that that style has been done a million times over. The look and feel of the photos just seems unoriginal to me because of what I've seen a lot of. No need to get hostile.
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Yes, I said noone should ever shoot another landscape again.
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I didn't insult anything at all, I just said it looked like that and to me it was unoriginal because I have seen it so much. I even said it was good work with interesting subject matter and technical prowess.
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I don't think those are banal at all. Gursky is banal. A photo of a random wall is banal. Those are well executed landscapes of an exotic location. That is not banal. Don't assume, and don't tell people not to post based on those assumptions.
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I love how you guys just post snide remarks instead of putting effort into coversation and a good discussion environment here. Why not contribute instead of being assholes about it? Get off your high horses.  Gursky's work explores a lot of banality, we even had a discussion on it in the early pages of this thread. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Apr 27, 2012 |
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Well seeing as I am a regular poster of actual content for this thread and I posted my opinions on the matter in a much more mature way than you guys are acting here, how about you all go away? <--- sweet title, glad you guys care so much. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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One of the best series I've found recently, in both content and execution; Eric Valli: Off the Grid quote:There are growing number of people http://www.ericvalli.com/index.php?/stories/off-the-grid/   
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Really creative double exposure work http://andredefreitas.com/Double-Exposures  
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Santa is strapped posted:These are not double exposures. They're reflections on a window. I remember reading about the photographer and I'm pretty sure he said they were reflections. Wow, that's crazy. I assumed it was done in post as well, but that's genius.
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NPR is quickly becoming my go to place to find great photojournalism. This article is on Horst Faas who just passed away. The first half or so of these are surreal shots from the Vietnam war. http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/05/11/152504928/if-you-dont-know-the-name-horst-faas-look-at-this Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 04:00 on May 12, 2012 |
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aliencowboy posted:If you haven't seen it yet, check out the documentary on him, "Visual Acoustics". Definitely, it's fascinating. Also Bill Cunningham New York is another great documentary about a brilliant street/fashion photographer. http://movies.netflix.com/movie/Bill-Cunningham-New-York/70141814 Anymore photography related Netflix you guys aware of?
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Ugh, everything I've seen from Syria is sickening. It's pure madness over there. I could never cover conflict as a photojournalist.
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guidoanselmi posted:i remember finding him from his hustler series - but then i saw the photo of the orthodox jew in the link and remembered this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip-Lorca_diCorcia#Litigation Good in those judges, we hear too many horror stories these days about cops and courts being hard on photographers. And yeah, diCorcia has major balls.
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