tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post4535088667133774086..comments2024-03-28T18:34:03.426-04:00Comments on Working Pictures: Motorcyclist, Moving ThroughCarl Weesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-72922546220493269672014-08-19T07:18:44.490-04:002014-08-19T07:18:44.490-04:00Richard,
"An exploration of multiple genuine...Richard,<br /><br />"An exploration of multiple genuinely separate experiences around what happens to be the same physical subject..."<br /><br />I like that. It might be hard to explain how that's different from shooting 6—or two dozen—rapid variations of the same picture, but the difference is clear to me.Carl Weesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-80123700917453363932014-08-19T07:14:45.685-04:002014-08-19T07:14:45.685-04:00Lyle, more like missing a certain element of appro...Lyle, more like missing a certain element of approach that large format "forces." Quotes, because I've read plenty of accounts of LF workers who think it's perfectly normal to need vast amounts of time to fully set up for a shot. As I understand it, this is less from lack of facility manipulating the equipment than from simply expecting to find the picture on the ground glass, after many varied attempts, instead of finding it first by direct seeing, then put the camera in the right place.Carl Weesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-82932881626394443282014-08-19T03:43:41.468-04:002014-08-19T03:43:41.468-04:00I much prefer this attitude myself - seeking to ma...I much prefer this attitude myself - seeking to make a single photo that speaks directly and freshly about the visual reason for feeling impelled to make a photo at all, in that place and time.<br /><br />It's a matter of speculation / delusion of course, whether it's some added creative spur, or simply the absence of any others, which "improves" the definitiveness of the photo that one does take (wry grin).<br /><br />Yet further photos certainly can soon labour the point, and over-stretch its significance. I get visually jaded, start to doubt my eye, things get more and more formulaic and cliche. And as a by-product, the computer work afterwards turns more into a chore than a pleasure.<br /><br />An exploration of multiple genuinely separate experiences around what happens to be the same physical subject - that's a quite different matter, I'd say. <br /><br />I do like your use of the term "situation" to more elegantly, and less pompously, express notions of a given <em>quantum</em> or <em>gestalt</em> of photographed reality.richardplondonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-62733934730045302562014-08-18T21:54:09.250-04:002014-08-18T21:54:09.250-04:00missing your 11x14?missing your 11x14?lylenoreply@blogger.com