When Will This HDR Fad End?
Personally I love the look of HDR images, the photographs look more like paintings than photographs, however there are times when they are not suitable, but that's for another time. I would argue that they are no different to loading say Velvia 50 into your camera and getting a different look to the average consumer colour film. Finally what could be more abstract than Black & White which is universally accepted in the world of photography?
Photographers rights: When, where and what can I shoot?
This is an interesting article on what the rules are on what you can and can't photograph. With some links to case studies and videos and model release documents.
Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sometimes looking for something original to photograph prevents us from photographing altogether. The following is a excerpt from the book, "The Mind's Eye" by HCB (1976)...
"...as far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which can not be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's originality. It is a way of life".
Photography in Film - Lecture: La Jetée
- My notes: transitions vary in length, dissolve and quick cuts, fade to black, pan around the photo, strong commentary, diagetic sounds, non-diagetic sounds, real voices in German? Backing music, heartbeat. Ancient animals - dinosaurs?! Many different angles of the same thing
- What is owed to photography and what is owed to cinema and what crosses over
- Photography - still images (pan, rostrum), duration & time, sound
- Cinema - strong narrative, soundtrack, eyes moving - illusion of present time
- Chris Marker (1962)
- author, movie maker, journalist, animator (documentary film maker)
- French resistance (formative experience to attitude to world)
- Informed by torture at Auschwitz (plus Algeria)
- Politically motivated
- Time/memory
- Low profile - rarely interviews
- Weaves his thoughts into films
- Cultural history - what forms us
- La Jetée - only entirely fictional film
- Deals with fears of the future
- New Wave - low budget films
- Artform - pushing borders, experimenting or dead!
- Left Bank Group
- Saw New Wave as mainstream!
- Alan Resnais/Agnes Varda/Chris Marker
- Marker worked on Resnais' holocaust film 'Night & Fog'
- Films to educate as well as entertain
- Fictional & Documentary
- Melancholic/Nostalgic - Hiroshima - Sans soleil
- Giving voice over influences image
- Stills enhance haunting film narrative
- Photographs are an excellent way to time travel
- Raymond Bellour
- Substituted themselves for my memory
Photographer: Jane Bown - "Henri Cartier-Bresson"
I am still exploring the work of photographer Jane Bown. This photograph is of another inspirational photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
The following are quotes from the book "Unknown Bown".
"Some people take pictures. I find them"
"I love train stations and airports, places with lots of people where I can blend into the crowd and work unobserved"
"I was obsessed with textures and patterns—hair, cloth the grain of a piece of timber, the print of a fabric"
"I'm a one-shot photographer, I work quickly and hate fuss, always have done"
"I honestly think that all my best shots were taken on holiday"
"Sometimes I can see the picture immediately and then the first exposure is often the jackpot one"
"For that moment when I look through the lens, when absolutely everything is exactly right, love is the only way to describe what I feel"
"I can't really feel the excitement I felt when I looked down into that viewfinder, twisted the knob and everything came into focus"
"These pictures are the real me"
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