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11/08/2020 08:50:48 PM · #1 |
| founder of Magnum photo agency and photographer |
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11/08/2020 09:50:46 PM · #2 |
| Maybe, but only if it’s archival. Those of us who are confining don’t have access to people right now. |
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11/08/2020 10:15:54 PM · #3 |
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11/08/2020 11:40:02 PM · #4 |
We did it in 2011, in Minimal...
Worth doing again, but probably it ought to be minimal again?
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11/08/2020 11:45:23 PM · #5 |
I'm not a fan of "in the style of" challenges.
We all work too hard to achieve our own style. That's what makes us... us!
So, I say that once is enough, for sure, on any one person's "in the style of".
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11/09/2020 10:06:16 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Lydia:
I'm not a fan of "in the style of" challenges.
We all work too hard to achieve our own style. That's what makes us... us!
So, I say that once is enough, for sure, on any one person's "in the style of".
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share the same thoughts
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11/09/2020 11:48:52 AM · #7 |
| I'm a big, big fan of "in the style of" challenges. We do not exist in a vacuum of perspective. Or if we do exist in a vacuum of perspective, it can only be beneficial to struggle to immerse oneself into someone else's. |
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11/09/2020 02:44:19 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
I'm a big, big fan of "in the style of" challenges. We do not exist in a vacuum of perspective. Or if we do exist in a vacuum of perspective, it can only be beneficial to struggle to immerse oneself into someone else's. |
My sentiments exactly. There's a lot we can discover about ourselves and our own potential for image-making by studying the work of the masters, and there's no better way to do THAT than by trying to emulate them as an exercise.
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11/09/2020 03:03:40 PM · #9 |
| So many great Magnum photographers. What about "In the style of Martin Parr" if the Brexit ever happens? |
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11/09/2020 03:23:13 PM · #10 |
| Ive participated in some of the "In the style of" challenges in the past, but have not found that they taught anything other than how that photographer like to take photos. It didn't help develop my own style in the least. |
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11/09/2020 03:24:49 PM · #11 |
| Just saw the news of the unexpected dead of Bruno Barbey, perhaps a challenge in honor of him? |
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11/09/2020 03:35:53 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Dennisheckman:
Ive participated in some of the "In the style of" challenges in the past, but have not found that they taught anything other than how that photographer like to take photos. It didn't help develop my own style in the least. |
I'm sorry to hear that. |
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11/09/2020 05:53:00 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Dennisheckman:
Ive participated in some of the "In the style of" challenges in the past, but have not found that they taught anything other than how that photographer like to take photos. It didn't help develop my own style in the least. |
I'm sorry to hear that. |
I'm not a huge fan of these, and I'm not sure I have a "style" to develop, but what these do do (sic) is advance my knowledge of what composition considerations, camera settings, and post-processing are needed to achieve a photo "like that" -- if I ever have a subject/setting which I think would look good "like that" I'll know how to do it ... learning how to do new things photographically is the site's mission statement after all ... |
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11/09/2020 06:03:59 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Dennisheckman:
Ive participated in some of the "In the style of" challenges in the past, but have not found that they taught anything other than how that photographer like to take photos. It didn't help develop my own style in the least. |
I'm sorry to hear that. |
I'm not a huge fan of these, and I'm not sure I have a "style" to develop, but what these do do (sic) is advance my knowledge of what composition considerations, camera settings, and post-processing are needed to achieve a photo "like that" -- if I ever have a subject/setting which I think would look good "like that" I'll know how to do it ... learning how to do new things photographically is the site's mission statement after all ... |
Not against learning, just don't know how to reverse engineer camera settings and things like from an end result of someone else's work. You can't learn shutter speeds and comp without actually having that artist tell you about it and how the final image came into being. I am not a fan of these challenges at all. I don't even know how to vote on them. Just because something looks like someone else's work doesn't mean they learned anything in my book. It means they learned how to copy something someone else already did. Where is that mission statement? |
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11/09/2020 06:23:19 PM · #15 |
| Its an easy decision really, I just won't participate in these. No biggie really. There are plenty of others. But, I am learning more from other photographers who actually teach HOW they ended up with a certain look or comp. Then, I can take that knowledge and forge ahead and actually make some progress. But in the end, I may not ever end up with "my style" either. Hard to say, but I do know, it won't happen because I copied from someone else. |
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11/09/2020 08:34:35 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Dennisheckman:
Where is that mission statement? |
Originally posted by Help>About page:
The original idea behind the site was for it to be a place where the two of us and a couple of our friends could teach ourselves to be better photographers by giving each other a 'challenge' for the week. |
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11/10/2020 04:34:52 PM · #17 |
I found the following statement by Cartier-Bresson:
"For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to give a “meaning” to the world, one has to feel involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in a face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
To take a photograph means to recognize, simultaneously and within a fraction of a second‚ both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning.
It is putting one‚ head, one‚ eye, and one‚ heart on the same axis."
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