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Post by Kath on Dec 31, 2023 22:05:43 GMT
Not so many entries this month - perhaps the theme was a little restrictive? However, I very much enjoyed the shots that were submitted and it was still not easy to pick a winner. I really liked all of them! My short list included Adrian's Only The Ball Should Bounce Nigel's Enjoy The Silence All three of DanS's Ansel Adams inspired dodging and burning Kate's Josef Sudek ZX9s Kos and Vienna. So hard to choose just one, but I'm going to go with Adrian's mainly because it made me go and look up a photographer I wasn't aware of before and that's always a good thing. Over to you gray1720 |
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Post by gray1720 on Jan 1, 2024 0:23:23 GMT
Oh bugger! I will come up with a theme when I both have 5 and am nae pished!
ETA I feel I should mention that that was taken with an All-Distance Ensign box camera.
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Post by peterob on Jan 1, 2024 8:30:57 GMT
Not so many entries this month - perhaps the theme was a little restrictive? However, I very much enjoyed the shots that were submitted and it was still not easy to pick a winner. I really liked all of them! My short list included Adrian's Only The Ball Should Bounce Nigel's Enjoy The Silence All three of DanS's Ansel Adams inspired dodging and burning Kate's Josef Sudek ZX9s Kos and Vienna. So hard to choose just one, but I'm going to go with Adrian's mainly because it made me go and look up a photographer I wasn't aware of before and that's always a good thing. Over to you gray1720 Thank you for the very different theme Kath. I've been wondering about the "restrictive". I don't think it was and it would have been nice to see more examples. I started to look up the photographers mentioned and I found basic facts like nationality but nothing helpful, so I stopped. I still don't really "get" the idea that the look of a picture says who took it but I recognise that some people can look at paintings and say who the artist was so it must be the same sort of skill. Thank you again for the eye-opener. I'm sorry that I didn't get to the start-line! Well done Adrian! |
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Post by Kath on Jan 1, 2024 8:47:21 GMT
Not so many entries this month - perhaps the theme was a little restrictive? However, I very much enjoyed the shots that were submitted and it was still not easy to pick a winner. I really liked all of them! My short list included Adrian's Only The Ball Should Bounce Nigel's Enjoy The Silence All three of DanS's Ansel Adams inspired dodging and burning Kate's Josef Sudek ZX9s Kos and Vienna. So hard to choose just one, but I'm going to go with Adrian's mainly because it made me go and look up a photographer I wasn't aware of before and that's always a good thing. Over to you gray1720 Thank you for the very different theme Kath. I've been wondering about the "restrictive". I don't think it was and it would have been nice to see more examples. I started to look up the photographers mentioned and I found basic facts like nationality but nothing helpful, so I stopped. I still don't really "get" the idea that the look of a picture says who took it but I recognise that some people can look at paintings and say who the artist was so it must be the same sort of skill. Thank you again for the eye-opener. I'm sorry that I didn't get to the start-line! Well done Adrian! No need to apologise! It's very much a double-edged sword to win this monthly comp because coming up with a theme that will suit plenty of people is really tricky, particularly if trying to avoid things that have already been done to death. As far as the look of a picture saying who took it, I think you have to consider the subject matter, the theme, the time/place it was taken and have an awareness of a photographer's work. Saul Leiter took a lot of photographs through steamed up windows or using reflections and there was a lot of red and yellow in play. Stephen Shore is known for banal shots of not a lot. Eggleston makes me think of rich colour and things you wouldn't normally think to photograph but which tell a story. Brassai - night life, fog, Paris (sadly I couldn't get there this month!). Sanders - portraits, professions. Atget - doorways, windows. I suppose I think of it as being a bit like reading favourite novels. If you love Ian Rankin's work and picked up a book with his name on the cover, you'd know sort of what to expect - crime, Edinburgh, disgruntled cop. You'd be totally shocked if it turned out to be Swedish lesbian porn! Photographers are the same I think. |
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Post by dans on Jan 1, 2024 14:09:03 GMT
Thanks for the theme Kath. I like this sort of thing a lot, but sadly I didnt have a lot of time to engage this month.
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Post by peterob on Jan 1, 2024 16:07:25 GMT
As far as the look of a picture saying who took it, I think you have to consider the subject matter, the theme, the time/place it was taken and have an awareness of a photographer's work. Saul Leiter took a lot of photographs through steamed up windows or using reflections and there was a lot of red and yellow in play. Stephen Shore is known for banal shots of not a lot. Eggleston makes me think of rich colour and things you wouldn't normally think to photograph but which tell a story. Brassai - night life, fog, Paris (sadly I couldn't get there this month!). Sanders - portraits, professions. Atget - doorways, windows. I suppose I think of it as being a bit like reading favourite novels. If you love Ian Rankin's work and picked up a book with his name on the cover, you'd know sort of what to expect - crime, Edinburgh, disgruntled cop. You'd be totally shocked if it turned out to be Swedish lesbian porn! Photographers are the same I think. Thank you Kath. That's an interesting and useful synthesis. I don't see the analogy with Rankin although I do think the Rebus stories are quite good and I must have read each of them at least a dozen times. Food for thought. |
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Post by zou on Jan 1, 2024 21:12:20 GMT
Another way of looking at it is design language. There are certain products that you look at and immediately recognise as the product of a certain brand. For example BMW's kidney grille, which has evolved hugely over the years but remains consistently part of their design identity.
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Post by Kath on Jan 2, 2024 11:42:39 GMT
Another way of looking at it is design language. There are certain products that you look at and immediately recognise as the product of a certain brand. For example BMW's kidney grille, which has evolved hugely over the years but remains consistently part of their design identity. Yes, exactly! I realise this won't be Peter's area of expertise but a while ago now I was quite interested in fashion - not for me to buy or wear but how and why trends came about and who was buying into the new ideas - what sparked a fashion and how this year's colours came about. I knew nothing about any of it and found it interesting so I started looking at magazines and reading articles. Before too long I could look at an item of clothing and tell you it was Versace without seeing a label. I'd picked up on the design language. I have not kept up to date with any of this information and fashion houses have new designers whose work I'm not so familiar with but I could still probably identify the main players because they all have 'tells'. I suppose you have to be sufficiently interested to notice and read those tells, because I couldn't look at a grille and tell you anything about it at all. You have to go beyond just seeing something and really start looking at it on some level - pinpointing what it is about it that makes it what it is. Same with photographs. |
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Post by peterob on Jan 2, 2024 12:11:12 GMT
Another way of looking at it is design language. There are certain products that you look at and immediately recognise as the product of a certain brand. For example BMW's kidney grille, which has evolved hugely over the years but remains consistently part of their design identity. Still a bit subtle for me. I recognise beamers by their head lights, I never noticed the grill specifically, but it is true that all non SUV beamers look very similar in the rear view mirror. I can only tell what it was after it has overtaken. Teslas look like Porches and there is a Chrysler (I think) with a huge grill that looks like Bentley. |
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