The photography thread will never begin?
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The photography thread will never begin?
Today, through the eye of a 130-year-old camera.
The portrait, in particular, is fantastic.
(Just a shame that some of those images seem to have been uploaded 'mirrored'! Not sure how that got past the site's image editor.)Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
Oi, camera dweebs. My son is about to start a photography GCSE and needs a camera. I don't want to pay a fortune so want to get him one form the camera exchange. What out of these four looks that the best deal
That one's £229
The above have all got 6 month warranty
This is £100 and hasn't
Thank you for your time. After answering you can get back to your soft porn mags masquerading as "artistic photography" guides.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
You may want to note that one of your options there is 'body only' so you'd need to buy a lens as well to go with it. So probably not the option to go for.
I did photography GCSE and photography, and you don't need a high, high spec. Without seeing more details of the ones you've got there it's difficult to recommend. But Pentax was the school standard at the time, pretty basic but hardy models that did the job well (we're talking early 2000s and on frigging film, here, so that's likely a bit out of date)Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
All decent cameras, at a decent price, yes.
As VV says, the body-only one will require lenses as well.
But that raises a bigger issue; future lenses. If he likes photography, he will want to buy more lenses. For close-up work, for portraits, for sports, for basically anything, he'll want specialist lenses.
The big two manufacturers are Canon and Nikon. Two of those there are Big Two (ie, the Nikons).
Second-hand lenses will be cheaper and much more readily available for Canon and Nikon bodies, because they have far more users.
OTOH, new lenses - particularly new lenses by the manufacturer, non Big Two don't get many third-party lenses made - will often be more keenly priced on non Big Two; because that's what they can offer customers as against the third-party support and second-hand market of Canon and Nikon.
That's why I shoot an Olympus; reasonably priced and good body, with really excellent value on aftermarket lenses. But once you've got the body, you're usually more or less locked in to that manufacturer for life; you'll get a new lense or two that are better than the kit ones you have, then when you upgrade the body you'll want to use the lenses you've already bought, then when you get better lenses again you'll obviously buy compatible ones, then...Comment
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This:
http://bigislandnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/multimediaFile-905.jpgComment
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The photography thread will never begin?
also this:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/10/17/michael_light_photographs_housing_developments_in_ nevada_in_his_book_lake.htmlComment
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The photography thread will never begin?
Just bumping this up to the top from page 12ish so I dont have to go looking for it again.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
Sorry if it's already been linked, but I've just come across Airpano, a project of 360° aerial photos around the world. Part 1 of their Buenos Aires gallery is lovely and I'll be looking through the rest of the site in the coming days, I suspect...Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
Azurite.
Hmmmmmm, the mini version isn't that impressive. Try typing the link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee,_Arizona#/media/File:Azurite-velvet-beauty.jpg) into a new tab for an expanded view. Astonishingly beautiful.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
That's lovely NS. Actually it's a lovely thread which I don't visit much as I'm a crap photographer. Having had a catch up I will visit more often. The indigenous peoples link was wonderful, especially those Kazakh guys with eagles.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
Something quite different, but also quite fine. Art Kane's A Great Day in Harlem. Taken in August 1958 it portrays — almost literally — everyone of an reputation in the Jazz world of the day. There are annotated versions on-line that tell you who's who, but for me the kids (who weren't invited, they just appeared) tell the story. BTW It's Count Basie sitting on the kerb with them.
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The photography thread will never begin?
As wonderful a photo as it is, arguably the two most influential of the post-war period certainly aren't there. Among many others. Armstrong as well by the look of it. So almost literally should probably be considered a bit hyperbolic there.Amor de Cosmos wrote: Something quite different, but also quite fine. Art Kane's A Great Day in Harlem. Taken in August 1958 it portrays — almost literally — everyone of an reputation in the Jazz world of the day.Comment
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The "almost" covered that I thought.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
Not really. Davis, Coltrane and Armstrong among many, many others are significant omissions.
Just a bit hyperbolic that's all, no big lick.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
So not quite literally everyone of any reputation..?
Or, practically everyone of any reputation..?Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
So not quite literally everyone of any reputation..?
Nowhere near not quite literally everyone. That suggests it's almost complete. It's not. There's more reputable jazz musicians of the day not in the photo, far more.
Or, practically everyone of any reputation..?
Nowhere near practically everyone of any reputation
. See above.
It's an excellent photo, very interesting.
It's just the words almost literally — everyone of an reputation in the Jazz world of the day aren't right.
I'm using the absence of arguably the three most famous and important jazz musicians ever as an example of how many more reputable jazz musicians of the day are also not in the photo. Of which there are many. Jazz is big. Like one of them Sport Direct mugs. Proper big.Comment
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Yeah, I do realise that. And if I'd posted it on the music forum everything you say would be relevant. However I wanted to look at it primarily as an image — rather than an accurate documentary record of Jazz in 1958 — that's why it's on this thread. It's basically a question of emphasis.Comment
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Yes, needless over-emphasis.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
It's a great photograph.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
It is, and it could easily have been quite ordinary. My first contact was probably sometime in the late 60s, and thought it kinda neat, mostly because of the nature of the enterprise. It stuck as an image though and I revisited periodically. Yesterday I was trying to find Emmett Berry in the picture and, for the first time, began really looking at it.
Two things are apparent. The picture's taken a long time to construct (it's a photo thats "made" rather than "taken") and the subjects are beginning to lose the pose (some more than others.) The set-up hasn't quite fallen apart but it's not far away. Exhaustion, maybe even irritability, adds an informality. People are talking to each other, pulling faces, goofing around. Another few minutes and some would have started to drift away. As it is the timing is exactly right, everyone is visible, still more or less engaged in the process, but not intimidated by it.
The second factor, as noted above, is the presence of the kids. They add cultural context. Sure the title says Harlem, but without those children it isn't obvious. They also connect the subjects to the past and future A few years earlier they'd be on the kerb too, a point Basie underscores. Look ahead twenty years, and maybe one of those kids is standing on the steps holding an instrument. Their placement (accidental I think) reinforces this visually. The line of boys along the bottom and the three girls in the window bracket their elders, and frame the entire image. Quite remarkable.Comment
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The photography thread will never begin?
I wonder if the kids had any idea who they were posing with, or just hung out and sat down because something was happening.Comment
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