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Old August 19th 06, 03:36 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Al Denelsbeck
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Default [SI] Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...


Just starting to think it was gonna be an easy one, weren't you?
Think again.

Our next challenge comes to us courtesy of someone rumored to be in
the Nadvornick family who, during a press conference held today in a
concrete bunker at an undisclosed location, said,

"Imagination. Your goal is to tell a full and complete story about your
chosen subject in a single photograph. Choice of subject is unrestricted.
The story should have an implied beginning, a current state and an inferred
conclusion - all in one picture. The primary storytelling tool you
manipulate will not be your camera, but rather the imaginations of your
viewers."

This reporter was deeply moved by these stirring words, and yet,
oddly constipated. But that's just being a reporter...

Anyway, see http://www.pbase.com/shootin/imagine for a poor
illustration from my archives, and http://si.jlkramer.net/rulz/rulz.htm to
take a stab at it. We'll see how you did on September 3.

Cheers!


- Al.

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Old August 19th 06, 01:30 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Nicholas O. Lindan
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"Al Denelsbeck" wrote

tell a full and complete story about your
chosen subject in a single photograph.


For inspiration:

http://www.betaparticle.com/blog/tem...ink.asp?id=109

Or just google images for "Cindy Sherman"


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Old August 19th 06, 01:49 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Nicholas O. Lindan
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Default [SI] Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...

"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote
"Al Denelsbeck" wrote
tell a full and complete story about your
chosen subject in a single photograph.

http://www.betaparticle.com/blog/tem...ink.asp?id=109
Or just google images for "Cindy Sherman"


Just a thought...

Cindy Sherman uses herself as the model in her
photographs. Might add some spice to the shoot-in ...


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Old August 19th 06, 02:24 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Annika1980
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Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
For inspiration:

http://www.betaparticle.com/blog/tem...ink.asp?id=109

Or just google images for "Cindy Sherman"


I was thinking along these lines:
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/28938293

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Old August 20th 06, 12:19 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Bandicoot
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"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
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"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote
"Al Denelsbeck" wrote
tell a full and complete story about your
chosen subject in a single photograph.

http://www.betaparticle.com/blog/tem...ink.asp?id=109
Or just google images for "Cindy Sherman"


Just a thought...

Cindy Sherman uses herself as the model in her
photographs. Might add some spice to the shoot-in ...


Hmm, but if everyone uses Cindy Sherman as the model, won't the pictures be
a bit samey? Oh, wait, I see what you mean...

;-)


Peter


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Old August 21st 06, 08:16 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Denny
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I haven't participated since very early on... But, I going to try to
find the energy (hard) and time (harder) for this one - we shall see..

BTW, the shots by Cindy Sherman are a hoot... You have to know the
original shot/person to appreciate her humor... There are two shots I
can't recognize or put in context, but the rest brought a chuckle of
recognition... She is an original thinker... And her knowledge of
photo images from Life, Look, People, etc. is apparently voluminous...

Interestingly, I managed to impress a small group of the MTV generation
recently... There was a program on that showed some of the iconic photo
images (pre digital photography)... A couple of the teenagers there
turned to me and challenged me with, "Hey, Doc O, you know
everything... Who took this picture?"
Well it was Ernie Hass' iconic cross image of underwear in mud, so I
told them... The next one was Robert Capa's seminal shot of the
Spanish soldier shot in the head and twirling to the ground... Then
the depression mother shot by Dorthea Lange, and W. Eugene Smith's
heart rending mercury poisoning victim, and a classic Irving Penn
fashion shop of the late 1950's... This went on for several minutes,
there were some photos I didn't recognize and I said so each time...
At the end one of them said, "How did you learn so much?"... I thought
for a second and told them, "Because we didn't have television to eat
up our time and energy."
A t that point I totally lost them...
No television?
Not possible!
And they tuned me out and went back to mindless jungle rhythms with
writhing, flashing 3 per second images modifying their plastic brain
tissue into jello and erasing their attention span..

denny

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Old August 21st 06, 09:31 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Nicholas O. Lindan
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"Denny" wrote

And they tuned me out and went back to mindless jungle rhythms


Ah, Elvis!


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Old August 21st 06, 10:31 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
William Graham
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"Denny" wrote in message
ps.com...
I haven't participated since very early on... But, I going to try to
find the energy (hard) and time (harder) for this one - we shall see..

BTW, the shots by Cindy Sherman are a hoot... You have to know the
original shot/person to appreciate her humor... There are two shots I
can't recognize or put in context, but the rest brought a chuckle of
recognition... She is an original thinker... And her knowledge of
photo images from Life, Look, People, etc. is apparently voluminous...


Speaking of Life Magazine, and speaking of, "Speaking of Pictures", does
anyone know where I can find a listing of those old photos on the last page
of the life magazines? I remember some really great pictures, but it's
almost impossible to find them in the library collections, because there is
no cross reference between the picture and the issue.....I remember the
picture of the British Jet about to crash in the farmyard, with the pilot
ejecting. (He crashed through a greenhouse and broke both legs, but
survived) And, there was one of the gibbon reaching through the bars in his
cage, trying to steal the zookeeper's keys off of his belt loop......


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Old August 21st 06, 10:52 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
no_name
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Denny wrote:


At the end one of them said, "How did you learn so much?"... I thought
for a second and told them, "Because we didn't have television to eat
up our time and energy."
A t that point I totally lost them...
No television?
Not possible!


Yeah, you coulda' told 'em it was from readin' books and lost 'em just
as fast.

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These are my views. If you've got a problem with it, you can blame it on
me, but this is what I think. I am not the official spokes-person for
any Government, Commercial or Educational institution.

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Old August 22nd 06, 02:30 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Bandicoot
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"William Graham" wrote in message
news

[SNIP]

Speaking of Life Magazine, and speaking of, "Speaking of Pictures",
does anyone know where I can find a listing of those old photos on the
last page of the life magazines?


[SNIP]

And, there was one of the gibbon reaching through the bars in his
cage, trying to steal the zookeeper's keys off of his belt loop......


I remember that one from when I was a child. Funny, I can't have thought
about it for years, but you mention it and immediately I can picture it
again, the expression on the ape's face. Maybe that's a sign of a great
picture, the way it stays with you.


Peter


 




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