I'll be back on Monday. Have a great weekend.
Leica Gold
Just some nice cameras.
Not just another flower photo
Some days no matter how hard you try nothing inspires. You just have to try something different.
Flower/Fireworks
Refractions
Refractions,thoughts on aesthetics and photography, is a book by Ralph Gibson that was published in 2005 by STEIDIL/MEP. Coming in at a slim 48 pages it could be passed on as an insignificant vanity publication. This could not be farther from the truth. Reading this book feels like you are sitting down with a master photographer for 2 hours and picking their brain on why they photograph not just how.
" I've stated in the past that photography is like electricity: we know how how to use it but we don't really know what it is. It's a medium that enables us to depict everything from the sacred to the profane. Yet there is no absolute photographic act, it is only a question of process. One makes a photograph and it leads to the next photograph which subsequently leads to the next photograph, and it seems you have to make all three of them rather than go to the last one. There appear to be no elliptical leaps and bounds of growth in the life of a photographer. He or she simply has to put the film in the camera."
The following topics are covered: Aspects of Influence, Malevitch & Matisse, Architecture, Sculpture, The Nude, Camera & Lens, The Frame, Perspective & Focal Length, Notes on the Negative, The Portrait, Ambivalence, Photographs of Photography, Images of Nothing, The Still-Life, Music & Photography, Book Making, The Diptych, Semiology, Brazil, Egypt, France, Italy.
The book appears to be only available at the authors web site as a signed edition. If you can find a reasonably priced copy I would highly suggest picking up a copy, you will find it very inspirational.
May 1, 1991
24 years later.
June 1, 1967
Would you take a credit card?
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Cleaned my sensor
Just used the Sensor Gel Stick to clean my sensor for the first time. Really easy and did a great job.
Sensor Gel Stick at Photographylife.com
South Bay
This past weekend I spent some time in the Newport Beach area. Beautiful weather and not a lot of people, just enough to make to make for a really nice outing. You never know what you are going to find when street shooting. I like to find good backgrounds and just wait for the subject to appear. It is a time honored method that I have been practicing for a lot of years. The sun was blaring down on the pier so I retreated to the shops and the alleys nearby. Shooting my M8 and 35mm ( 50mm in full frame ) is such a small and unnoticed package. I have tried various cameras over the years but nothing comes close to a Leica. Recently I bought a Fujifilm X-Pro 1 but just couldn't bond with the fuji. The quick menu is nice but it was too easy to change the viewfinder from optical to digital and it was always on the wrong setting. I really like the Leica viewfinder because I shoot with both eyes open, and I follow the subject to the frame, and watch it appear around the frame lines and into the frame for the exposure.
Craig Semetko
Leica photographer Craig Semetko will be speaking at the Leica store in West Hollywood on Thursday evening April 17. He will be presenting work from his books UNPOSED, INDIA UNPOSED and his ongoing project AMERICA. Reception and a book signing will be from 7-9pm. The exhibition runs from April 17 - May 25, 2014.
