Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It would be interesting from a conceptual art but hey why not really do it standpoint- You have two figures in a photo you've put together one apparently a statue and one apparently a a living creature but in reality you've switched them! The statue is really the living creature and visa versa. Here in new York they call the living statues performance artists. They are everywhere I bet its a hard to get into their Union. Experts in holding real still. Body paint. And not falling off a bench. With a minor in Robotics. AFL-CIO silver self spray painters. On the Visa versa side we have the obvious Madame Tussauds house of wax. But I think just get a statue and give it a good paint job and put clothes on it. I guess those are known as Manikins like in the shop windows and also used for practicing first aid. And I've been on roll photographing Manikins like in the shop windows lately. They just wont let me bring one home. And I almost had a date for last Friday night. Then have more fun thinking what to title it: "Statue of limitations" or "is it live or is it Memorex?" I'd like my statue which I have made to be a guy holding a point and shoot up way in front of his up face arms stretched out in front of them with straight arms like people take pictures now. Aim it at a performance artist then snap a picture of it. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb es > From: Kyle Cassidy <leicaslacker at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:22:40 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Different ambitions > > it is pretty clever. i'll let it go. my thing against statues is that > typically you're just photographing a thing that someone else toiled over. > andreas seranno -- he made little plastic sculptures into andreas seranno > photos. if you want to photograph a statue, make it into something that's > says > something about you and not about the statue -- (e.g. about light or > technical > perfection, etc) and this is not just a statue, it's a clever photo that > has a > statue in it. nicely done. > > > On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Certainly one of the most brilliant images ever posted to the LUG Welcome >> Merrill someone forgot to tell you that the X1 is too slow to shoot >> pictures >> with. . A pervasive consensus on this list with the exception of maybe me >> and maybe you. Viewpoints aside this is hard copy. Evidence to the >> contrary. >> >> Ps >> I also like the statue of the skate boarder in the background. Great color >> paint job on that. I know its a statue as its well known that its >> impossible >> to capture action with the Leica X1. Its too damn slow. Everybody knows >> that! There is a shutter lag of what? 7 seconds? >> >> There is an informal anti statue Statute here on the LUG. >> But I bet for this shot Kyle will let it slide. >> >> Amazing getting the horse to hold that pose. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >> >> >> >> >>> From: Merrill Morrow <merrillmorrow at mac.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:36:47 +0000 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: [Leica] Different ambitions >>> >>> Newly acquired X1 recently taken on holiday >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Merrill/MInerva-1010584.jpg.html >>> >>> Thanks for looking >>> >>> Merrill >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information