Just processed a lot of images recently so I'll post some. I'll start off with some diptychs and order the rest by location.
>>2820606
>those shadows on the water
Lmao do you even plan your shoots
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>>2820608
Yes. But I wasn't really there for the posts. That just kinda happened. I don't really care a lot about the shadows. Thanks for your input though.
>>2820611
I'll contrast with some shots I took while skiing and return to the sea later on.
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>>2820618
That's pretty much all from skiing. Not really happy with the haul. I had perfect weather and really fucked up composition in a lot of pictures. Could print postcards with those and not in a good way.
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>>2820620
Look mom, it's the zoo!
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>>2820626
And that's all for the zoo. I'll end with my favorite.
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>>2820628
And here we are, back at the coast.
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>>2820634
Found this cute little playground rotting away.
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What colour film did you use?
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>>2820642
Portra 160/400 and some Kodak Gold. Was the first time I put some Portra in my mju. Made me never want to use Gold again. It's really worth every penny, especially when scanning.
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>>2820645
It's not as refined and only diptychs, but the abstraction was kind of what I was going for.
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>>2820658
That's all folks.
Do your worst. Or enjoy. Or both.
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>>2820606
I like this one most of the set
>>2820613
nice idea, well executed, cool picture
>>2820638
would personally crop out that wooden structure thingy there on the right, otherwise good simplistic picture
>>2820639
nice juxtaposition, maybe a bit less of the foreground and try to clone out that red thing on the right?
>>2820640
m8, please crop or straighten to make it symmetric, probably my favorite shot otherwise!
The most uninspiring set of images we've had on here for a while. But who cares what an internet guy thinks, if you like them great, if not whatever work on it dude
>>2821780
>The most uninspiring set of images we've had on here for a while.
I see this posted in every thread. Care to elaborate? I'm genuinely interested.
>>2821783
What he probably means is that there is no real meaning or idea conveyed, but just style. Yes, there is a literal subject such as a house or whatever, but that's it. No message/concept/idea or anything, just a single motif. Nothing supporting the imagery besides an aesthetic.
>>2820639 is an exception imo, but you may have not even had intent
I don't think it's always valid criticism to say this, especially here on 4chan. Not everyone is trying to make some grandiose statement with their photography. If you were seriously trying to make it in the art world or whatever you'd definitely need to expand your approach, but who cares if you just want to take nice looking photos for fun and self-fulfillment, which I'm guessing is what you did.
>>2822050
i disagree. the images are entirely utilitarian and no message is required. they still have artistic value.
OP i will say...you are probably deutsch yes?
>>2822050
>Nothing supporting the imagery besides an aesthetic.
That IS what I am aiming for, yes. Reduction to aesthetics and structure. Except for >>2820628 and >>2820626 which were spur of the moment snaps, but I thought they were good enough to post anyway. Not coincidentally, they are the only pictures with humans in them.
>>>2820639 is an exception imo, but you may have not even had intent
I did see the contrast, but that's not why I pressed the shutter. So not really intent.
>>2822094
Jawoll. The coastal ones are from Bremerhaven.
>>2820606
this is so boring. what is the point of shooting such uninteresting subjects?
>>2822154
Lol
>>2822154
I like the first two. i find them interesting put together but they'd be boring as separate photos.
>>2822492
Every photography needs to be contextualized in order to fully appreciate it.
Works of art Mule, seriously. I like the doubles the most.
>>2820611
really digging these. i see it as looking in front and in back of you, left to right or whatever. good stuff
Nice work OP, I really like it.
Nice thread, OP. Interesting photos and fun to look at. Thank you for providing good content on this shitty, shitty board.
>>2822504
lol, no
>>2822642
lol, ok
Literarily just aesthetic proletarian. Nothing in this set of images conveys anything at all rather a copied aesthetic had been applied to useless and conventionally middle class subject matter (skiing). good demonstration of the fundamental problem with photography as a democratic medium with very little technical barriers (compared to traditional forms of expression, painting etc)
also saying 'im intentionally making shit photos' is not an excuse for making shit photos.
>>2822647
meant to type proliferation but funnily proletariat works too
>>2820606
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>>2820640
>That IS what I am aiming for, yes. Reduction to aesthetics and structure.
These are the only ones that successfully accomplish your statement. The others either need to be abstracted more and reduced down to more simple compositions and shapes. Besides the photos I quoted, the others are pretty garbage. The two diptychs I quoted are really well thought out. Honestly those seem to have come from a completely different photographer than the remaining images in this thread.
>>2820638
This image for example has that thing peaking into the ride side which throws off this reduction you mention. All the shit on the horizon further throws this off.
Finally, the softness of the images really hurt your aspriations. Soft images =/ focus on aesthetics and structure.
>>2820608
The shadows are the first thing I noticed as well. Kills the flow.
>>2822705
>those seem to have come from a completely different photographer
This although I would say series, not photographer.
>softness
They seem pretty sharp to me overall. Probably should visit your ophthalmologist.
>>2822705
>The others either need to be abstracted more and reduced down to more simple compositions and shapes.
I think what you're suggesting would lead one to minimalism. That's not what I'm aiming for though. And I don't think minimalism holds much merit. If you're abstracting that strongly, you're pandering to my sense of aesthetics (or trying to contradict it). I, for the most part, try to keep objects as a whole, or at least identifiable, in the photograph while at the same time establishing a form of structure and geometry that may or may not exist in the real world.
I'm not claiming to be successful at this, for the most part, because I'm not that far up my own ass. But that's my thought process and what you're suggesting just wouldn't leave me with the pictures I'd want to create.
Except of course if I completely misunderstood what you're getting at.
>This image for example has that thing peaking into the ride side which throws off this reduction you mention.
IIRC the crop felt too tight with it missing. You are correct though, it's not perfect. Just like >>2820639 and the end of the slide on the right. I felt that they were good enough to post to /p/ anyway though. It's not like this is an exhibition.
>Finally, the softness of the images really hurt your aspriations.
These are 1000px a side, batch processed with irfanview. I don't think they're that soft though.
>>2822647
>Literarily just aesthetic proliferation. Nothing in this set of images conveys anything at all rather a copied aesthetic had been applied to useless and conventionally middle class subject matter (skiing)
Are you actually criticizing that the pictures have common structural traits that lead to a similar aesthetic across the set?
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>>2826070
no not at all- what i mean is these images are representative of a copied aesthetic and add nothing in themselves. I love the Düsseldorf school but unimaginative uninspired copying is always crap. Take inspired asthetic -> apply to generic crap -> think you are an artist === /p/
>>2826623
>I love the Düsseldorf school but unimaginative uninspired copying is always crap.
You can believe me or choose not to, but these weren't exactly copied or even really made with the Bechers in mind. At least not any more than Eggleston or HCB or Atget. I went out and captured what I felt was right. Which is, as I already explained in >>2823192, to capture and/or create strong geometric patterns and structures while not drifting off into minimalism and keeping a sense of wholeness to a scene. Not all of these meet that criterion, seeing as some are just mju snapshots, but on average that's what I was trying to do.
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