Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You might well be right, I have never been to Cuba. Again, you might well sell stock, but I am not looking for stock when I look at a portfolio, I am looking for something more. It has been a few years since I have seen photographs taken there that do not give me a feeling of Deja Vu. I would like to visit sometime, but more for the music and culture, rather than the photography. Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad > On 09-Mar-2016, at 07:53, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > I loved Cuba and would go back anytime. I was taking photos to sell for > stock and photos for myself. I think you can tell the difference. The > stock ones are selling very well because everybody wants the cliche photos > that look like "Cuba". I think if you look far enough you'll find the real > people. > > http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery/Cuba/G0000TudpsyJmsLU/ > > TIna > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/tinamanley > http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information