Following on from CB's excellent Recent Format Agnostic Professional Works I was wondering if there would be interest in a similar thread for personal works?
Anyway, worth a try. I'll start.
Hangdog. Essaouira, Morocco. Leica M240, 35mm Summilux-M.
(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/hangdog.jpg)
I've been working with my wife's nephew, who is working to "break into Hollywood" for acting. (Doing quite well surprisingly.)
This image was an attempt to make him look "younger than he is." I liked the result.
(http://rsadams.smugmug.com/photos/i-BsKPFMW/0/X2/i-BsKPFMW-X2.jpg)
Anybody know how to get the images to show in-line rather than as an attachment ?
Here is a stitch shot this Saturday.I do!
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3728/19008236694_7e9a578963_o.jpg)
Hope you'll like it.
Cheers,
Bernard
Both are very nice...
Fuji XT-1 at Niagara Falls last month.
Lovely.
Miami at night, Nikon D800 + Nikkor-S 55mm 1.2
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/NightWaks/_DSC5551.jpg)
Dog, Essaouira, Morocco.
Leica M240, 21mm Super-Elmar ASPH.
(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/Dog_Essaouira.jpg)
Nikon D700 Stitched from six frames.
Llyn Gwynant. North Wales UK.
Chris, I like the first two also but I love the adirondack chairs to shoot from. Very civilized.+1.
Love the swimwear shot, Antonio.
I think Rome may have provided me with my new website about page picture. ;D
That's great. It'll be nice to tie in your Italian background. People love hearing about a person's family origins. My only nit is you appear very small in the picture. Otherwise, nice capture.
Not at all.
The room was essentially a dark cave lit by an intense single shaft of light. Time exposure with no flash used.
The image is what it is, evoking a dark cave lit by a single shaft of light.
But the light was totally unbalanced. The shadows were virtually impenetrable and those areas that were lit were intensely so. It's almost as though I was in a cave room with an intense directional light source ;-)
My aim was to capture what I saw and experienced rather than a sanitised, perfectly balanced image and histogram. Had I painted the scene I would have taken precisely the same approach.
Another from Greece. Leica M240, 21mm Super Elmar-M ASPH.
(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/LithiRoom.jpg)
Hi,
This was shot under Hans Kruse's Dolomites East workshop.
Sony Alpha 7rII, Sony 70-400/4-5.6G at 150/f11.
Best regards
Erik
Hi,
This was shot under Hans Kruse's Dolomites East workshop.
Sony Alpha 7rII, Sony 70-400/4-5.6G at 150/f11.
Best regards
Erik
Erik, impressive images, very nice work your doing with the A7RII. The detail and tonality are amazing.
from the car window while driving home from last week's shoot...
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/12080250_10206825835539510_1904345645044476431_o.jpg)
This is a commercial shoot for a historic banquet hall on the island of Palm Beach, Florida.
Neon Sculpture, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (D800E, 24-120mm; grab shot from this afternoon)
Fantastic shot!
Amazing place! It would make a wonderful set for some fashion pictures - particularly for the ghost of Helmut Newton. I can almost see the dinner jackets, monocles, swish and unattainable ladies in impossible heels... what a fabulous world some artists can make it for the rest of us. I think they deserved every penny they earned, just for giving us hope!
Rob
Strolling New York... my daily walk from the W to the Expo. All on the XT-1, my new bangaround.
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/t31.0-8/11246496_10206896130216833_7274573801685512472_o.jpg)
CB
Using my super telephoto Leiblad objective, I was able to catch these pictures in Texas from my mountain top in Spain.Rob, your "glimpsed parallels" grouping is quite fun to browse. Lovely work.
This is the first:
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5063480_orig.jpg)
The rest of 'em are at the bottom of this gallery:
http://www.roma57.com/glimpsed-parallels-2.html
Rob C
Rob, your "glimpsed parallels" grouping is quite fun to browse. Lovely work.
Hi Erik, I love the first one, the composition is very strong. I would punch the local Contrast, Clarity or Structure a bit more. Thanks for sharing.
Men's Toilet, Rome, Italy
No retouching just surreal urban scape. A7R + Canon 24-70 f/4.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/Daywalks/_DSC5128.jpg)
A7R + Nikon 60mm Macro G.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120389/Daywalks/_DSC4783.jpg)
From a recent walk in the park. Sony a6000 + Sigma 60mm
(http://michaelezra.com/Projects/Posts/DSC04277_V1_web.jpg)
Hi Antonio, was that first image single shot? I like it very much but can't make up my mind whether a corrected perspective version would be even better. Did you consider doing this in post?
Very impressive for single shot.
This may not be the LuLa cup of tea but it represents a type of photography I enjoy.... night and neon.
Been to Viterbo and back home today, just had time for a couple hours walk. Weather was bad, but I still had fun. I've shot only with a Nikon D200 and Nikkor AI 28mm f/3.5.
In the past 20 days I've done 3200+ km of driving for various reasons, and I got sick (thankfully?) now that I have a few weeks of not having to travel as much.
Love that red Volvo
The blue mountains (The Sibylline Mountains, Marches, Italy)
[...] E che pensieri immensi,
che dolci sogni mi spirò la vista
di quel lontano mar, quei monti azzurri,
che di qua scopro, e che varcare un giorno
io mi pensava, arcani mondi, arcana
felicità fingendo al viver mio! [...]
(G. Leopardi, Le ricordanze)
Bellissima! Grazie
The blue mountains (The Sibylline Mountains, Marches, Italy)
Saved it for viewing during a rainy day (hope you don't mind, muntanela), it's now in a company with few images of Kilimanjaro and mountain view around Yerevan...
P.S. Do you know the photographs of Vittorio Sella in Georgian Caucasus?
P.S. Zorki5? My wife bought a Fed (if I remember well the name) in URSS many years ago, and never used it
I found it recently, but, fiddling with it, I made the (maybe) fatal mistake: I changed the shutter speed with uncocked shutter. Anyway, I've never taken photos with it.
Thanks, Eric (and muntanela!). Life's been getting in the way; but I do miss this place.
Mike.
Okay, been spending some time snapping at friendly non-models:
http://www.roma57.com/interrelate.html
Okay, been spending some time snapping at friendly non-models:Chris got it just right. Thank you for that wonderful -- what? Project? Mini-magazine? Whatever you call it, it is quite magnificent.
http://www.roma57.com/interrelate.html
Okay, been spending some time snapping at friendly non-models:
http://www.roma57.com/interrelate.html
It's a brief series: can't post a pìcture or it makes no sense.
Passes the time, and makes the ancient D200 seem less a waste of money.
Rob C
Wonderful to see you working again, Rob. And the product is wonderful. Hope you'll keep it up.
Hi Rob, wonderful project. It's easy to tell you have an affinity with the model. Bring us some more.
Very wise words, Rob.
For instance: "Rapport. You can't buy it, and hiring it isn't guaranteed either."
In so many photos of people these days it looks as if the photographer thinks of the subject(s) as object(s) rather than as human beings. even your coke bottle portraits show more humanity, and rapport, than much that I see.
Your present comments are a good start on the essay that Russ has asked for. I would love to see you expand this to several pages and have LuLa publish it.
-Eric
I think the answer has to be: because it's there (PS), and folks can't resist using it and playing God.Well, if they're playing God they are doing a bad job. When I look around on the street there's plenty of evidence that He has good taste, which these PS artists lack.
Well, if they're playing God they are doing a bad job. When I look around on the street there's plenty of evidence that He has good taste, which these PS artists lack.
More proof that Satan exists ;)+1
More proof that Satan exists ;)
Leica M240, Zeiss 50mm C-Sonnar ZM, 1/4000 sec F1.5.
(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/Doll_Car.jpg)
Antonio, many thanks.
And yes, I have several in the series that are equally disturbing, so much so that I'm in two minds as to whether I should put them up on my website.
Well Keith if it is a meaningful body of work I don't see why not. Show us more.Yes. Please do.
First Baptist Church - Dallas, TX[/url] by Slobodan Blagojevic (https://www.flickr.com/photos/slobodan_blagojevic/), on Flickr
Hi Slobodan,+1.
Nice image!
Erik
Rob,
Here are some of the things that strike me about all of your recent photos:
They are all so spontaneous: "I saw this, and I felt like capturing it. And I don't give a hoot whether anybody else likes it or is willing to pay money for it. It's just for me."
And yet, your eye is so good that they capture moments of magic, without ever seeming forced.
Many are downright whimsical. I'm thinking of your "Blue Patch" in the Abstracts thread, which made me chuckle the instant I saw it.
Hmmm. Maybe through your recent photos you are actually "teaching creativity," at least to those who are receptive. One lesson might be "Don't let your mind get in the way of your photography!"
Cheers,
Eric
Which lenses do you use with the D200, Rob?
We had a crazy fog storm roll through our city the other night. Here are a few with the E-m5ii
Love the third.
Jeremy
Yes, really strange, isn't it?
Rob C
Holiday brochure...
(http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5996103_orig.jpg)
Rob C
Not sure I'd want to be LIKE bottomed!
Where is the LIKE bottom?
Not so recent, but I got around to working a bit more on this old project.
(http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab14/Andrea_Minganti/AM1_5816_zpszgqwegpr.jpg)
Lucky you! She doesn't look very old to me. Maybe a bit dozy, but certainly not old!
... This is my favorite of the lot...
Hi Rob,
I've probably said it before, but I feel safer in Morocco than I would in Glasgow or Magaluf.
Rob, you've certainly captured that 60s/70s look using wides when shooting people.
My own shoot in Morocco saw me using a 21mm almost exclusively, but for reasons that had more to do with available space than look.
Rob, I hope you don't mind me mentioning it, but could it be your new muse has a passing resemblance to Ann?
Nothing replaces a girl with the right mindset, doesn't need spoon-feeding... find that need cripples me creatively: it just has to be give 'n' take and mostly just adapting what's offered, assuming anything's offered in the first place. I can't keep up being both sides of the photo act for very long; it saps my interest and I want to go home.Rob, that attitude helps explain (to me anyway) why your portraits and your recent abstract snaps all feel so honest and genuine.
I gotta think this one through!
Rob
Rob, that attitude helps explain (to me anyway) why your portraits and your recent abstract snaps all feel so honest and genuine.
From an ongoing series on fabric and bodies. For those interested, Canon 5dII and 85mm 1.2 (virtually the only lens I use).
As ever - simplicity is king.
Rob C
+1.
Beautiful stuff!
As ever - simplicity is king.
Rob C
Nice one, Rob.+1.
Rob, truth is usually by pressing the button and letting Leica do the rest!
If I have any concerns then a half press of the shutter button gives me a preview of the exposure and histogram which is easily tweaked using the exposure compensation ring. The mere thought of going back to a hand held meter fills me with horror.
Simple things for simple minds: works for me!
Into the Light. Morocco. Leica M240, 21mm Super-Elmar ASPH.
From a shoot last week in Murano. Stormy Skies. Leica M9-P, 35mm Summilux ASPH.
(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/Murano_Stormy_Skies.jpg)
Leica M240, 90mm Summarit-M.
(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/Daliesque_in_Venice.jpg)
(http://www.keithlaban.co.uk/Murano_Abstract.jpg)
:-)+1.
Boom Lift, Washington, D.C., Nikon D800E, 24-120 f/4 Nikkor.
I like the color version better. I also like the way it is cropped.I agree. The colors add some real zing to it.
I like the color version better. I also like the way it is cropped.
I agree. The colors add some real zing to it.
Rollei 35TE
That is a neat little camera, very fun to use!
Two more shots from my phone.
(http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab14/Andrea_Minganti/WP_20160722_15_47_51_Pro_zps2castqfn.jpg)
(http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab14/Andrea_Minganti/ProShot_20161226_94115_zpstklkrflz.jpg)
Hi,
The first one looks like a normal medium format interior architecture shot… That is a bit impressive. May be it is more about photographer than kit…
Thanks for sharing!
Best regards
Erik
I love everything about #1. Excellent
I love the use of light in the cat picture - suggestion is often far better than revelation.Second the motion.
Still in romantic mode, mind working overtime. So tender the gaze...
She's probably not much of a conversationalist, Rob.
Jeremy
Hence the limitless possibilities of never hearing "No!".
;-)
Rob
We're on the verge, here, of plumbing the depths of one of the deepest mysteries spell that cosmic jokes) in the universe.
:-)
Rand
Lovely, Erik. I think I'd prefer it without the short, rather bright stump on the right, though.I agree.
Jeremy
Lovely, Erik. I think I'd prefer it without the short, rather bright stump on the right, though.
Jeremy
Me, too. But it was the best sample/composition I could find. I can try content aware fill :-)
That's very nice. The colours work so well and I'm guessing that's not by chance. The composition works well and makes it look so clean and simple. Very nice indeed!