Photography; Paul Strand, Modernism to McCarthyism

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Saturday February 26, 2011 · 2:47 PM PST

2011/02/26 · 14:47

Paul Strand's Art

Before I spoil this article with to many words have a look at this ten minute movie. I would watch it all If I were you but if you fast forward it and find bits that you like that is good too.

Crossposted on my blog: Paul Strand Modernism to McCarthyism | Minimalist Photography 101

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Facade - Photo Essay

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Wednesday February 23, 2011 · 7:06 AM PST

2011/02/23 · 07:06

Crossposted on my photography blog: Facade | Minimalist Photography 101

Sometimes it is good to step out of a comfort zone.

I live in a town with a traditional type high street. Many people including the mayor, who I believe to be a good guy overall, is very proud of the towns high street. It looks nice, as long as everything is looked at from a distance of a couple of dozen feet or more and the paint jobs on the store fronts that are a couple of years past their best and the 50% off tickets that seem to have swarmed don't come into sharp focus. At first glance everything looks fine, as long as you don't look too closely that is.

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Photography - The Legacy of Stieglitz

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Monday February 21, 2011 · 11:14 AM PST

2011/02/21 · 11:14

Ask a cross section of people in the USA to name a famous photographer and it is likely that Ansel Adams will top the list followed possibly by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

There is however, a much more influential photographer who, for some reason, never seems to quite get the recognition that he deserves. The really bizarre thing is that he is probably not even the most famous person that lived under his own house. That honor would go to the artist Georgia O'Keeffe.

Crossposted on my blog:Alfred Stieglitz | Minimalist Photography

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February Photography

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 8:44 PM PST

2011/02/17 · 20:44

So far this month I haven't done any serious photography but have, as always, had the point and shoot in my pocket and ready to go. These were all shot with said camera, often at low resolutions and high ISOs. As I've written many times before the camera is more of a sketchpad than best primed canvas. I take a lot of photographs and make no apologies for that.

Weather wise we have had a lot of snow followed a run of 50 degree days. So if there is a theme with these it is snow - white snow, dirty snow and melting snow.

I did so some experimenting with the processing of some of these. I am still playing around with a lack of a sharp focus anywhere in the image and both muted and altered color. The black and white snow-scapes may look a shade underexposed but that is deliberate, they were shot at last light and I didn't want to light them up like Christmas trees.

Crossposted on my blog: February Photos | Minimalist Photography

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Photography Gear Addiction

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Wednesday February 16, 2011 · 6:51 AM PST

2011/02/16 · 06:51

My philosophy regarding buying photography equipment. It is also a statement about consumerism in general.

There are two distinct approaches to photography gear and equipment. There is the shiny object approach and the process approach. I suspect that most of us start with the former and hopefully graduate to the latter.

Originally published on my blog:
Break the Photography Gear Addiction

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Photography - What's My Line ?

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Sunday February 13, 2011 · 5:09 PM PST

2011/02/13 · 17:09

Introduction

Arguably the most important aspect of drawing is line, after all, everything is composed of lines, even a heavily shaded area is made up of lines. Now, the same rules of composition apply to photography as with all visual art so line is equally important in a photograph as a drawing. We just don't tend to think of photographic composition in terms of line so much.

Crossposted on my blog:Composition – Line | Minimalist Photography

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Photography and Color

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Thursday February 10, 2011 · 7:57 AM PST

2011/02/10 · 07:57

As this is my last diary on DK3 I wanted to do something a little different so out with the slightly bleak monochrome and in with really bright garish colors (and some pontificating of course).

Crossposted at my blog: Photography – Color | Minimalist Photography

Color Emphasize it or Lose It

Some see black and white photography as nothing more than elitist artistic snobbery while others see it as the only true medium. It is neither. I tend towards black and white for a slightly complex reason and a simple one.

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Sunday February 06, 2011 · 8:34 PM PST

2011/02/06 · 20:34

In a previous diary someone asked me about contrast and more specifically how my photography had more contrast than others. I was about three paragraphs into the reply when it dawned on me that the topic was a much more complex one than I'd originally thought and I said at the time that I would write a post on the subject. Unfortunately I cannot find the original comment, so if the person who asked knows where it is I'll happily add it to this post and beg forgiveness for not bookmarking it at the time.

Crossposted on my blog: Contrast | Minimalist Photography

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Saturday January 29, 2011 · 4:29 PM PST

2011/01/29 · 16:29

The last time I was on the shore of Lake Michigan a couple of weeks back it looked something like this:

Crossposted on my photography blog: A Frozen Lake Michigan – Take 2

That was shot at noon on an extremely overcast day with very low, heavy cloud cover. The temperature was below freezing and the windchill was pounding it to way below zero. I lasted about five minutes before I lost all feeling in my fingers and other bits.

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Wednesday January 26, 2011 · 3:25 PM PST

2011/01/26 · 15:25

Crossposted on my blog: Patterns and the creative process. | Minimalist Photography

This post will either be a useful insight into the creative process or an exercise in self indulgent twaddle. My hunch is that it will come across as something between the two.

My original intention was to write a normal prose and picture style post on the subject of the importance of repetition in the arts and especially photography. I was going to start out by giving a brief description of traditional composition. The importance of having a main subject and of showing depth, rules of thirds and all that other good stuff. Then I was going to basically trash the idea that this traditional approach was the only way to approach photography.

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Sunday January 23, 2011 · 8:17 AM PST

2011/01/23 · 08:17

Today he comes to town.
The big cheese.
The main man.

I am waiting.
I've been planning this for weeks.
Lines of sight.
The crowd.
The distance.
Even the position of the sun.

I have the timetable.
Where he will be and when.
How many steps from car to podium.
Who will be around him.
Timing, everything comes down to that.

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Saturday January 22, 2011 · 7:41 AM PST

2011/01/22 · 07:41

Cross posted on my blog: http://minimalistphotography101.com/...

The world is made up of objects. To most these objects are defined by their function, a chair is for sitting on, a TV is for watching and a tea party banner is for laughing at. Photographers also see objects in terms of function but they also see something else, they see an object in terms of how it modifies light.

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