Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, IMHO, the most difficult assignments in photography are those that take you to iconic places or events, because it is so difficult to find something new to photograph and show, that has not been done a few million times before. Human interaction is certainly one way out, because of its innate unpredictability, but when an entire population gets used to posing in a certain way, and loses all spontaneity, it becomes repetitive as well. It is definitely is very true of tourist dependant cultures, like for example the Masai in East Africa, and I suspect, the Cubans as well. Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad > On 09-Mar-2016, at 04:38, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography > at gmail.com> wrote: > > Jayanand, > > You mention a very interesting aspect on photography. Many of us we are > going to events or places to take photographs because there is some event > that make > an interesting subject for a shot, however we are reproducing something > that it is there, at that moment, except if we capture an exceptional > decisive moment on the action, we are not creating we are simply copying. > I think and I try to search on ordinary life, on everyday scenes something > interesting in the sense that I would like create the even and not > reproduce an even as it is. > > I think your observation very interesting on this sense. > > Cheers > Lluis > > > >> El 6 mar? 2016, a les 14:11, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> va escriure: >> >> Cuba has been "discovered" some years ago, and most photographs from >> there show a touristy sameness that is getting monotonous. Time to go to >> other countries, and show your tourist snapshots, before they, too, lose >> their novelty value, like Myanmar or Iran.....:-) >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 06-Mar-2016, at 11:51, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: >>> >>> Well, as for colors, all the pictures from that exhibition are B&W. >>> >>> The other one, from Murcia, is in color. >>> >>> There are many photographs from Cuba these days, but the percentage of >>> good ones is not high. These are good, IMO. >>> >>> Finally, having been born and lived the first 11 years of my life in a >>> Communist country, I can assure you that the Cubans look forward to the >>> arrival of Starbucks, Safeway, modern cars etc. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> Alicante, Spain >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >>> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >>> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >>> YNWA >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 06 Mar 2016, at 01:23, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> No reflection on the exhibit shown, which is quite nice, but any images >>>> taken in Cuba seem to be winning formula.... >>>> >>>> ......Mind you, I am jealous,,,,, >>>> >>>> But the place looks like every photographer of people, old stuff, and >>>> color >>>> should go there.... before us Americans ruin the place with Starbucks, >>>> Safeway, B of A., and "modern" color palettes of Gray, Mauve, and >>>> Taupe..... >>>> >>>> Frank Filippone >>>> Red735i at verizon.net >>>> >>>> Alicante has decided to have a photography festival, I supposed trying >>>> to >>>> emulate cities like Madrid and Perpignan. So today I went to see four >>>> exhibitions. Two of them were quite indifferent, but these two I really >>>> liked: >>>> >>>> http://www.mayoralphotography.com/entre-dos-aguas-2/ >>>> >>>> http://gustavoaleman.net/No-soy-de-aqui >>>> >>>> Both are the kind of photography I like to do, and the first one very >>>> much >>>> made me think of our own Lluis. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Nathan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information