Looked at the Yucatan set, and apart from the one of the child, which is a good if not great image, they're no better than snapshots.
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: Saturday, 7 April 2012 11:40 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Is it street photography, if there is no street? > BTW: Stephen Shore once browsed Flickr and declared it all shit. So > that about wraps it up I guess. Good thing I've got some stuff over at > 500px. ;-) A website used by the general population to upload their cell phone snapshots? Start wandering around randomly and think that it's shit? Big surprise. > > http://2point8.whileseated.org/2006/12/12/stephen-shore-on-certainty-a > nd-shit/ I can respect someone that can look at a scene, see what he wants, and in a single shot get it. Working with film, I can do a single shutter press per image, but I've found that I much prefer the iterative process of discovery that digital allows me. > > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:10 AM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, it's not street photography 'cause there's no pavement, concrete, >> buildings, the sort of things that differentiate streets from, say, beaches. >> >> ;-) >> >> These are really nice beach and ocean photos, but I don't feel that the >> people in the shots add much. They don't seem to be doing anything of great interest, we're not close enough to get any of their personality and as compositional elements, well, to me the pictures would be just as effective without them. I do appreciate the feedback. I was trying to catch the energy of the kids playing in the surf, but I looked at the photos through my experience of having been there. >> >> But hey, that's just me, what do I know? Enough to have a photographic style named after you. >> >> ;-) >> >> cheers, >> frank >> >> >> "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." >> -- Christopher Hitchens >> >> --- Original Message --- >> >> From: Larry Colen<[email protected]> >> Sent: April 1, 2012 4/1/12 >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"<[email protected]> >> Subject: Is it street photography, if there is no street? >> >> There are worse things than having an hour to kill, when you're two blocks >> from the beach, at sunset. >> >> I found myself taking two types of pictures, and so I split it into two >> sets. In these I was practicing my "street photography", trying to capture people at the decisive moment, sometimes shooting from the waist. As such, this set may not be as technically strong as it might be, and the composition might be somewhere between ad hoc and random. Even so, I find these pictures rather fun, in a frivolous way: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157629713831141/ >> >> There are several shots in here with a group of college age kids, 153-154 >> and 230-232. Shortly after shooting 154, I noticed one of them had a camera and got to chatting with them. One of the girls told me her name was Cassandra, to which I immediately replied "I don't believe you". The poor girl was totally confused and had no idea what I was talking about. >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
