Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- The real street photography works shines in B&W, his color photos are trash, you need b&w to have real contrast and less color distraction from the main ideagrafician
- not to mention these are just snapshots, I have hundreds if not thousands of these kind of photos unpublished cuz they're not editorial worthygrafician
- also just because you shoot on film doesn't make you a photographer, you're just a hipster with a film cameragrafician
- this is something tho' http://www.martincar…grafician
- real (street) photographers also work in themes and series, if you want to be published, think always in seriesgrafician
- Shoot 10k frames for 10 good frames for an editorial. Shoot 100 frames good frames out of 100k for a book or an exhibitiongrafician
- Evil disney princess?AQUTE
- Also if you can't control the lighting, only shoot B&W, color photos with good lighting are for pros onlygrafician
- You need to destroy at least 2-3 DSLR cameras before going pro and into fine art or at least $5-10k of film worthgrafician
- When you are comfortable shooting, you'll think 90% and take the shot 10% so you'll end up with 10-20 frames max for a shootgrafician
- @AQUTE you're not cute, I had a photo studio until recently, I know my shit bro' chillgrafician
- Grafician his photos are great. Though thanks laying down your apparent rules for what does and doesn't make for a good picture.inteliboy
- Every single one of his photographs has a sense of meaning or metaphor or real life peculiarity to it that is far more than just a "snapshot".inteliboy
- inteliboy most fine art is b&w only, most fashion is color because you need to keep the clothes featured bestgrafician
- but who am I to judge, let Henri Cartier-Bresson teach you, look him upgrafician
- yeah I know who Henri is. appreciate the condescending comments tho. keep em coming.inteliboy
- "most fine art is x only" sounds like the shitest way to make or view art.inteliboy
- I don't give a fuck my dude, you need to practice safe photography, use a con...cept!grafician
- rules in art is dull. particularly in photography.inteliboy
- Going around town snapping shots of anything "cool" is not street photography, just like design you need to have a message with your imagesgrafician
- But that's not what his work is. You are projecting a viewpoint, that I often agree with, on the wrong photographer.inteliboy
- Shooting a clown with a mask in the subway is just observing. You need to put that clown in a setting to tell a story about him! That's photographygrafician
- You guys are too easily impressed by quick snapshots, what is good photography for you is nothing for me, condescending as it might sound lolgrafician
- oh well. guess that's just the way it goes. the critic and the audience. art has always been this way - eye of the beholder and all that...inteliboy
- Holy shit! I'm surprised to read such a vehement criticism of his work. There are a lot of his images i really dig.freakpelican
- He's a good photographer no doubt, but still way to go to be feature in anything like Time magazine or elsewhere, he's still doing snapshotsgrafician
- Why take this approach to a street photographer? Sure there are a countless number of people "doing it" now...freakpelican
- But his work is really solid and some of the moments he has captured are brilliantly composed bits of 'real life'. No concept needed and wtf time magazine??freakpelican
- For you, maybe, for us other photographers, these are junior level maybegrafician
- Like I said I have thousands of these shots in my archives, if you want to see true Romanian life, I could at best publish them with Vice Magazine...grafician
- Shooting everything i can get my hands on since i was first handed my grandfathers NikonFM2 in 1991. Staff photog for magazines/galleries... papers...freakpelican
- but thankfully i have an account on QBN so i can learn about photography from you! Thank you for teaching me about Henry Cartier-Bresson!freakpelican
- "For you, maybe, for us other photographers, these are junior level maybe"
Who the fuck you think you are ?i_was - @freakpelican well can you share some insights from your photography journey? I did and you're thinking I'm a smart-assgrafician
- Hey pelican, thanks for the share. I dig itfuturefood
- @i_was well are you a photographer or just offended of my condescending tone?grafician
- Btw I would never critique anything I couldn't or haven't done myself already, so...grafician
- Also if you think you're real photographers, put together a folio and apply just for the sake of it to an Art school for a Photo/Video degree...grafician
- ...that will humble you real quick, not to mention needing to learn all art and photo history, that would be great for you in the processgrafician
- Thankfully Graf you're not in need of any humbling yourself. You must have a degree with all of the humility you are showing.freakpelican
- @freakpelican my dude I'm in Europe, we don't give a crap about politically correctness or being nice, if something needs to be said we say itgrafician
- also being humble here means knowing somebody always knows more than you and respecting that, not patting ourselves on the shoulder acting nicegrafician
- if I tell somebody his work is crap I do that because I care and I want that person to grow, then I tell him how to fix his shitgrafician
- You in America just tell everybody their work is great and amazing knowing perfectly well even when that is not the casegrafician
- So don't fight me for being condescending or anything, just refine your taste in good photography if this is the case here...grafician
- wow, I'm going to bed, just leaving a note to hop in on this mania tomorrow.garbage
- "my dude I'm in Europe, we don't give a crap about politically correctness or being nice, if something needs to be said we say it"
So this is how Romanian thinki_was - ? does not surprise me, do you have a website where we can see your photography ? street photography ?i_was
- You're so fucked up, get some fresh air, instead of talking shite.i_was
- Uff. That escalated quickly.Continuity
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- Again, I tell it like it is, it was my opinion, Idc if you agree or not, that's your thing.grafician
- But you guys in the US really need to get it out of your heads that only your opinions matter and everybody needs to agree with you on everything.grafician
- do you think the same of cinema verite style? I love that aesthetic, films by John Cassaventes and even Kids, not everything has to be Malick and Angelopoulos._niko
- 50 notes?? Get a room, you psychos!maquito
- also just because you shoot on film doesn't make you a photographer (...)
grafician
So.. whos a real film photographer? An old fart w a cam?maquito - Going around town snapping shots of anything "cool" is not street photography (...)
grafician
Ok.. enlighten us, street-pic Morpheus. What should we do?maquito - @grafician You doing wrong w yourself. Embrace the momentum. Professional cams and lenses are acquirable for NEW, YOUNGER, people. Chill. You’re good.maquito
- I’m not that guy who is easily impressed by a cool shot but by a huge rant. Bare w me. Street photography is shat it is. Why so mad??maquito
- Also, “being humble” does not only have to mean people know more than you, but to be respectful, and to understand that art is art. maquito off.maquito
- Rgb u are my herodeathboy
- Love ya graf, but you're doing some serious gatekeeping here. Sure you could romanticize about HCB and the old times. Capa developed his film in toilet water.garbage
- From the same era Erwitt took photos just like the ones you are griping about lacking a narrative. He's one of the greatest photographers of all time, and his..garbage
- ..bread and butter was the photographic one-liner.garbage
- Read Vilem Flusser, Barthes, etc. The immediacy and rampant availability of images has reached the point that photos have changed the way they change us.garbage
- There's no code, and it really doesn't matter what photo you have because it's getting washed away tomorrow anyway. We're all goldfish.garbage
- @graf Bumping because I want a response.garbage