On 12/31/12 2:53 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Dec 31, 2012, at 7:22 AM, Doug Brewer wrote:
On 12/29/12 1:22 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Dec 28, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Doug Brewer wrote:
year-end survey of representative work:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115347824062413314605/posts/dL2uXjoYvRj
Very nice. Some of them look downright film like, though it might just be what I can only
describe as "retro composition".
Thanks, Larry. I'm curious which one you thank are film-like. Also: can you explain
"retro composition"?
Going back and looking, I'd say 3 and 6 are the most film like, 4 also has some
of it. I suspect that it is a case of exposure issues looking more like the
weaknesses of film than the weaknesses of digital.
um, thank you?
As to retro composition, some of the photos have the feel of photos taken when I
was much younger. Looking through, 3,6,&7. I can't say what makes them look
like they might have been taken forty years ago. I suspect that there are two
factors at play. One is that any activity where you make aesthetic choices will
have styles and fashions. People do what they see/hear their social circle doing,
because that is what seems right. A corollary to this would be, if you want to
take better pictures, look at better pictures. I think that another factor is that
the care and thought that goes into a photograph is generally in proportion to the
cost, in money and in effort, of taking that photograph. Also, when each frame
cost a perceptible amount of pocket change (click, that cost as much as a cup of
coffee), the people being photographed took a bit more care either because they
didn't want to screw up the photo and cost the photographer extra money, or because
they knew that they would
n't get a second chance and if they looked dorky, that's how they'd be
memorialized.
wow, you could have just said you didn't like them. But thanks for
typing it out.
I'm not saying that people consciously thought of these things, or that
everyone did, but over time, photos have become far less formal. People don't
get dressed up every time someone is going to take a photo of them.
I suspect you don't have a free-spirited five-year-old girl around the
house. Rather than me saying to her to get dressed up so I can take some
photos, it's that I notice she is being a princess so I get my camera.
It could be entertaining to do a series of anachronistic photos. Have a couple
of women dress up in 60's cocktail party fashion and do photos with them
holding the camera at arms length and making duck face. Get kids dressed up in
1980's punk, and pose them like a photo from the 1880's. Dress a couple of
people up like hippies, in front of a psychedelic VW bus, and HDR the photo
past all bounds of taste and decency.
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