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Dirac
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Six years ago, I bought myself a digital camera (a "compact" Minolta s404) and I resumed photography, after a 10 years hiatus. Later, I bought a bridge camera and I use now a DSLR. You can see many examples of my production on this website:
http://www.x1280y1024.net/
Retrospectively, I would say that it is somewhat in the style of the "objective" photography, extensively defined by Charles Marville’s work, in the 19th century, and whose the Becher, Thomas Strut or Stephen Shore are contemporary examples.
After six years in this style, I thought I should evolve. I should complete my "objective" style, by a "subjective" one. I mean, I wanted to reduce the distance between myself and the world. I also wanted to get something more fluid, possibly fragmented, unstable... Finally, I wanted to introduce in my photographs what, most of the time, I strived to avoid: people.
My first experiments with the DSLR where quite unconvincing. I think I’m so accustomed to use it in one single way, that moving to another one was beyond my capacities. So I decided I should use another photographic tool.
I chose a Ricoh GRDII. It is a camera that I learned to use long before I actually owned it: two years ago I followed a thread on a French forum (no largely diluted) where people discussed passionately the qualities of the GRD, and the alleged Tri-X appearance of the automatic BW of this camera, at high iso; i.e. grainy high contrast images. I concluded that this camera has flaws and shortcomings, appealing for those who knew how to use them. It is one of the reasons that decided me for the Ricoh, the other one was the extensive controls that gives the camera. As I always shoot RAW (easier PP), I bought the GRDII.
One or two weeks after I got the camera, I also discovered this very useful forum, and the work of Mitch Alland, that I like a lot. I was sure then I had made the good choice.
You will find here 75 (!) examples of my production during the first month. It is unfocused enough, but I regard it as normal at this early stage. I wanted to make experiments without restrain. Too much restrain was killing my photography with the DSLR.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23732112@N08/
Now I need your help. Could you please have the kindness to look at some of my efforts and tell me what you think of it? Honestly, I’m more looking for constructive negative comments than any other ones. Kind of: You often do that, but... There is too much... Not enough... Why do you...
Here are five examples of my tentative "new style". Thank you in advance.
People (800 iso). - I was not at all into street photography before, and I had to overcome my pathological shyness to shoot them.
From a moving train (focus set on infinity):
Against my hyper-controlled old style (with the GRDII):
http://www.x1280y1024.net/
Retrospectively, I would say that it is somewhat in the style of the "objective" photography, extensively defined by Charles Marville’s work, in the 19th century, and whose the Becher, Thomas Strut or Stephen Shore are contemporary examples.
After six years in this style, I thought I should evolve. I should complete my "objective" style, by a "subjective" one. I mean, I wanted to reduce the distance between myself and the world. I also wanted to get something more fluid, possibly fragmented, unstable... Finally, I wanted to introduce in my photographs what, most of the time, I strived to avoid: people.
My first experiments with the DSLR where quite unconvincing. I think I’m so accustomed to use it in one single way, that moving to another one was beyond my capacities. So I decided I should use another photographic tool.
I chose a Ricoh GRDII. It is a camera that I learned to use long before I actually owned it: two years ago I followed a thread on a French forum (no largely diluted) where people discussed passionately the qualities of the GRD, and the alleged Tri-X appearance of the automatic BW of this camera, at high iso; i.e. grainy high contrast images. I concluded that this camera has flaws and shortcomings, appealing for those who knew how to use them. It is one of the reasons that decided me for the Ricoh, the other one was the extensive controls that gives the camera. As I always shoot RAW (easier PP), I bought the GRDII.
One or two weeks after I got the camera, I also discovered this very useful forum, and the work of Mitch Alland, that I like a lot. I was sure then I had made the good choice.
You will find here 75 (!) examples of my production during the first month. It is unfocused enough, but I regard it as normal at this early stage. I wanted to make experiments without restrain. Too much restrain was killing my photography with the DSLR.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23732112@N08/
Now I need your help. Could you please have the kindness to look at some of my efforts and tell me what you think of it? Honestly, I’m more looking for constructive negative comments than any other ones. Kind of: You often do that, but... There is too much... Not enough... Why do you...
Here are five examples of my tentative "new style". Thank you in advance.
People (800 iso). - I was not at all into street photography before, and I had to overcome my pathological shyness to shoot them.
From a moving train (focus set on infinity):
Against my hyper-controlled old style (with the GRDII):