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03/23/2011 12:09:00 AM · #1
Not this guy...



But this guy...

//www.edward-weston.com/
03/23/2011 12:28:08 AM · #2
Here's a good place to start if you wanna really consider the style of Edward Weston...

//kcbx.net/~mhd/1intro/f64.htm
03/23/2011 01:15:36 AM · #3
Yaaaaaaay!!!
03/23/2011 01:20:27 AM · #4
The wheels are turning already.
03/23/2011 01:58:08 AM · #5
Originally posted by jmsetzler:

Here's a good place to start if you wanna really consider the style of Edward Weston...

//kcbx.net/~mhd/1intro/f64.htm


Group F64? I saw a manifesto but not sure what that had to do with it.

nevermind, i think i understand now

Message edited by author 2011-03-23 01:58:51.
03/23/2011 03:28:16 AM · #6
Peppers are already the current veg of choice for DPC - how many do you think we will see in this challenge...
03/23/2011 03:50:02 AM · #7
Originally posted by SaraR:

Peppers are already the current veg of choice for DPC - how many do you think we will see in this challenge...


a peck???
03/23/2011 04:21:15 AM · #8
Originally posted by SaraR:

Peppers are already the current veg of choice for DPC - how many do you think we will see in this challenge...


...as much as mushrooms
03/23/2011 04:36:07 AM · #9
For those in the Bay Area, Oakland's Museum of California is hanging a small show on the f/64 club who's members included Ansel Adams,Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, Edward Weston and occasionally Preston Holder, Conseuella Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, and Brett Weston. across the way is a larger show of Dorothea Langue's work.

My guess on entries, more peppers and nautilus shells, than contorted nudes or toilets.
03/23/2011 06:29:02 AM · #10
what up we these type of challenges lately?

im interested in developing my own style not mimicking another. these are fine from time to time, but there have been way too many lately.
03/23/2011 06:32:01 AM · #11
Originally posted by mike_311:

what up we these type of challenges lately?

im interested in developing my own style not mimicking another. these are fine from time to time, but there have been way too many lately.


Well in the meantime you can disassemble an object and take a picture of it :D

(most likely what I am going to do)
03/23/2011 06:54:49 AM · #12
YAY
03/23/2011 06:57:05 AM · #13
I hate to admit it, but I cannot be the only one who saw this challenge and the first thought was "Who???"
03/23/2011 07:03:07 AM · #14
Originally posted by klkitchens:

I hate to admit it, but I cannot be the only one who saw this challenge and the first thought was "Who???"


The only reason I recognized it is from the suggestion thread awhile back.
03/23/2011 07:12:45 AM · #15
Originally posted by klkitchens:

I hate to admit it, but I cannot be the only one who saw this challenge and the first thought was "Who???"


Up until a few minutes ago I had no idea as well but a quick look at one of the links provided (thanks) I feel this is a challenge I will like to enter.
03/23/2011 07:22:22 AM · #16
He has quite a few portraits in his portfolio - 3000 images posted here. Would a face fare better than a pepper?
03/23/2011 07:35:43 AM · #17
Originally posted by Eagle40Fox2:

Originally posted by mike_311:

what up we these type of challenges lately?

im interested in developing my own style not mimicking another. these are fine from time to time, but there have been way too many lately.


Well in the meantime you can disassemble an object and take a picture of it :D

(most likely what I am going to do)


yep.

03/23/2011 07:36:28 AM · #18
Originally posted by timfythetoo:

... Would a face fare better than a pepper?

For you... YES!
03/23/2011 09:12:32 AM · #19
About Weston.
03/23/2011 09:14:04 AM · #20
Originally posted by timfythetoo:

He has quite a few portraits in his portfolio - 3000 images posted here. Would a face fare better than a pepper?


Looking at this link, it would seem most of his photos were printed with a definite lack of contrast. They are mostly grey in tone. Is that because of the printing technique used... gelatin silver print?

Just checking. The other link to the Weston family website shows much more tonal depth to his images.

What are everyone's thoughts on his style then... rich highlights and shadows or dull greys?

03/23/2011 10:27:48 AM · #21
I just hope this doesn't become a mostly nude challenge...
03/23/2011 11:47:56 AM · #22
Originally posted by EL-ROI:

Originally posted by timfythetoo:

He has quite a few portraits in his portfolio - 3000 images posted here. Would a face fare better than a pepper?


Looking at this link, it would seem most of his photos were printed with a definite lack of contrast. They are mostly grey in tone. Is that because of the printing technique used... gelatin silver print?

Just checking. The other link to the Weston family website shows much more tonal depth to his images.

What are everyone's thoughts on his style then... rich highlights and shadows or dull greys?


That's the reproduction process at CCP (the Center for Creative Photography). They are just documenting what they have in their archives, not posting "pure" examples of the images. I've seen many of the Weston and Adams originals, and they are much richer, tonally, than these web versions show.

R.
03/23/2011 11:53:25 AM · #23
It's interesting (or maybe not) that people we consider masters have genres they are clearly masterful at and genres they seem to be quite mundane in. In looking at the original link way above we can see that Weston was at his best shooting Nudes or other things (like veggies) where the contours shape the light in dynamic ways. But when we move over to "landscape, clouds, etc" it really becomes unimpressive and almost experimental (and not in a good way). Personally I'd feel taken advantage of if I spent $4,000 for a cloud in the sky versus $15,000 for one of his nudes.

This isn't a knock against him, but rather just an understanding that not every photograph taken by a celebrated photographer is worthy of celebration.
03/23/2011 12:00:14 PM · #24
If you go click on the picture and move your mouse over the picture on the new page that opens up you can see those amazing details and f/64 mentioned here before Details of his prints

Also, this shows much better representation of tones Bear_Music mentions!
03/23/2011 12:08:10 PM · #25
Originally posted by DrAchoo:

It's interesting (or maybe not) that people we consider masters have genres they are clearly masterful at and genres they seem to be quite mundane in. In looking at the original link way above we can see that Weston was at his best shooting Nudes or other things (like veggies) where the contours shape the light in dynamic ways. But when we move over to "landscape, clouds, etc" it really becomes unimpressive and almost experimental (and not in a good way). Personally I'd feel taken advantage of if I spent $4,000 for a cloud in the sky versus $15,000 for one of his nudes.

This isn't a knock against him, but rather just an understanding that not every photograph taken by a celebrated photographer is worthy of celebration.


Bear in mind also that the U of Arizona CCP is the historical archive for Weston, Adams, and many other "great" photographers, and that the images you see in their catalog are pretty comprehensive, there are thousands of them. So a lot of these, just like the pictures you and I take on a weekly/monthly basis, don't amount to much at all. These people were only human. Not every example of any artist's work is gonna be a masterpiece, that goes without saying. Weston did have some fantastic landscapes, but he tended to work in a much more realistic vein than Adams, who romanticized the Western landscape pretty dramatically, in his most iconic images. Yet even with Adams, when you look at the archives, you see image after image of a rather pedestrian quality.

Adams, after all, was the one who said that a year that gave him 12 images of substance and value was a good year...

R.
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