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[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. -- To reply, insert dash in address to match domain below Online photo gallery at www.wading-in.net |
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[SI] Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...
"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" -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation http://www.nolindan.com/da/fstop/ |
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[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 ... -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation http://www.nolindan.com/da/fstop/ |
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Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...
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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[SI] Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...
"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
news "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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Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...
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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Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...
"Denny" wrote
And they tuned me out and went back to mindless jungle rhythms Ah, Elvis! |
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Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...
"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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Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...
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. -- 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. John |
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Shoot-In: And you thought it was about the equipment...
"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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