Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These are some that I took for me instead of for stock. Deja Vu here, too?? http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159293969 http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159430291 http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159478126 http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159568202 http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159569590 http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159892015 Tina On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/