tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161218400542280623.post7419357185478035919..comments2023-02-16T07:24:58.858-08:00Comments on Life, Photography and Everything: On Learning, Stiegletz and Photography as ArtJim Sabistonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18128614396558369112noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161218400542280623.post-38871396252941036872011-03-01T20:08:01.032-08:002011-03-01T20:08:01.032-08:00David,
Always a pleasure to see your comments. Th...David,<br /><br />Always a pleasure to see your comments. The museum show also had a series of Stieglitz's silver gelatin prints from the thirties and, as you noted, these were much sharper and more typical of what we tend to think of as 'photography'.<br /><br />I am fascinated with both approaches and am trying to become proficient in both. I have been often told that my photographs look like paintings, but I think this is more an aspect of lighting and composition, as I tend to eschew the 'special effects' approach.<br /><br />I agree. As long as the photographer is open about their process and methods, then the sky is the limit!Jim Sabistonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18128614396558369112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161218400542280623.post-18725858500165447112011-03-01T20:02:27.451-08:002011-03-01T20:02:27.451-08:00MLR - Thank you.
You are correct - post processin...MLR - Thank you.<br /><br />You are correct - post processing in the latter shots was very minimal (a bit more on the lead image as I played with the blue color channel a bit to get that sky effect).<br /><br />When doing exploratory shots like these, I use Av as you seem to have guessed, but set the exposure compensation at -1/3 to offfset the occasional tendency of the high end to blow out. Aperture was comparatively large, 4.5 to 5.6. DoF is not an issue at these distances and shutter speed is (handheld standing on the sidewalk). The resulting very fast shutter speeds helps a lot in keeping details and edges nice and sharp. Shutter speeds ran from about 1/1600 to 1/2500 sec.Jim Sabistonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18128614396558369112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161218400542280623.post-21209154981189758542011-02-27T12:01:28.814-08:002011-02-27T12:01:28.814-08:00Alfred Stieglitz in his earlier career was a pract...Alfred Stieglitz in his earlier career was a practitioner and proponent of Pictorialism. His earlier prints would have been "soft" and "manipulated" on purpose just as you discovered. Later he publicly refuted many of own earlier views and became one of the first photographers to practice "straight photography" which he named and espoused as the way for photography to become an art in its own right, rather than a form that attempted to resemble paintings. Today, we have had 70 years of straight photography and the medium is going back the other direction, merging and melding with other art forms, which is probably inevitable, besides, it keeps life interesting and art worth doing. Your cityscape photographs of the skyscrapers are wonderful and superb art. Generally I am a proponent of all forms of art and photography, as long as the photography does not profess to be straight photography while manipulating the images. If an artist is up front about their process, I say anything goes.David Leland Hydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10197480398008527373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161218400542280623.post-49484654118382315002011-02-24T05:41:22.203-08:002011-02-24T05:41:22.203-08:00Outstanding photos. I used to live in NYC and aspi...Outstanding photos. I used to live in NYC and aspired to compiling a similar collection. Alas, it ended at aspiration....<br /><br />You may have answered this at the end of your post -- you didn't do much post-processing? And if not, I assume you set your aperture around f8 and let the speed set accordingly?MLRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563631467812121860noreply@blogger.com