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More Window Shopping
« on: January 14, 2017, 09:24:32 pm »

Some more window shopping.
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Re: More Window Shopping
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2017, 12:41:19 am »

$3 and #4 work best for me.
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Re: More Window Shopping
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2017, 01:00:11 pm »

i have a wife that would kill for #2.
What is the blue green orb in #4 a product of ?

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Re: More Window Shopping
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2017, 01:10:03 pm »


What is the blue green orb in #4 a product of ?

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A reflected traffic light. I'm photographing through shop windows & am trying to get an interplay between the objects on display & reflections from streetlights / passing traffic etc. I haven't done anything quite like this before but am having fun. I should probably go look at some Saul Leiter to see how it should be done.
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2017, 01:35:23 pm »

Bored much? ;)

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Re: More Window Shopping
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2017, 02:02:09 pm »

I should probably go look at some Saul Leiter to see how it should be done.
It's OK to check out Saul Leiter, but best to just keep on doing more of what feels right to you.
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Re: More Window Shopping
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2017, 02:56:19 pm »

A reflected traffic light. I'm photographing through shop windows & am trying to get an interplay between the objects on display & reflections from streetlights / passing traffic etc. I haven't done anything quite like this before but am having fun. I should probably go look at some Saul Leiter to see how it should be done.


Don't; it doesn't help unless you live in NY. I found him back in '59 or '60 and have yet to find my very first yellow cab. And if you are thinking black/white - you're screwed there even worse: men seldom wear fedoras or trilbys today. Your luck may be better, but I have not even seen a traditional barber's pole in decades. That might just be because I haven't used the services of a barber since the Beatles, but they may just be extinct - the candy poles, I mean. It's probably not cool to promote a service that way today.

Like Eric says: do your own thing. Windows are always promising (even when lying) and have given me something to play with for a considerable time. More productive than empty Coke bottles, I'm afraid. But then again, you're very much in the hands of the dressers... I'd avoid banks altogether, though. Either way, without Saul's friendly companions, even windows lose something, that certain frisson... plastic dummies don't quite make it much either. Don't know about you, but I was certainly born thirty years too late.

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Re: More Window Shopping
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2017, 03:53:27 pm »

greame,

One thing I must admit: cities provide an unlimited number of opportunities to make pictures. In the end, and expressing a very personal opinion, I have discovered that absolutely nothing that I have tried comes close to the buzz of photographing people. It's best with their cooperation, if they look good, but stolen snaps can be pleasant too, if for different reasons not entirely clear to me when I manage it.

However, cities are somehow alive where hick towns sleep the day away and try to ignore you most of the time. Sadly for me, my only city's an hour's drive each way, so not terribly popular with me, despite what it may offer; not so much a driving problem as a parking one.

However, windows generally reflect the possible clientelle; I had to go the big smoke to catch Zara, below, and what she might possibly wear.



My local playground does 'tourist' most of all. I don't look for sophistication anymore in these parts... without it, what's a window, what's a mannequin - what's a photograph? It's quite difficult enough to find them wearing heads and hands these days, including in my single city! Even Zara and her sisters were wearing angles instead. Not only will robots take us over, they may try to render us in their image!

Rob

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Re: More Window Shopping
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Re: More Window Shopping
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2017, 05:31:18 pm »

I should probably go look at some Saul Leiter to see how it should be done.

Eric, Rob

I should have put a smiley after this sentence.

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Re: More Window Shopping
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2017, 06:53:24 pm »

Eric, Rob

I should have put a smiley after this sentence.

Graeme
Oh? Did Saul use smileys?   ;D
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2017, 05:03:47 am »

Oh? Did Saul use smileys?   ;D

It's hard to tell, Eric: it is recorded that he refused a Leica in exchange for some of his paintings (when he was still a young man) and that he was eventually given one to use by - I think - a painter friend. He also used - or at least claimed to have owned - a 150mm lens at one period... but a smiley - that's not recorded, AFAIK. I don't believe that rangefinder Leicas accepted 150mm optics, though, or what practical good they would have been if they had: I don't think Visoflex thingies accepted anything between 125mm and 180mm. (Hassy were thus not the first to think of 'locking in or out'!)

But it's not important: he also ended up using basic digital machines, too, and none of that - well, final - work has ever come to the attention of this humble historian. Perhaps his NY became as difficult to rediscover (if you can, indeed, rediscover anything, ever) within what currently occupies that space as it is for me to find it in rural Mallorca. Surely, it must be somewhere? After all, the first law of physics was that matter can neither be created not destroyed, and NY certainly mattered and also created as many amazing photograhers as anywhere else, with the possible exception of Paris (France).

If Graham will excuse me, I'm off to take a cup of tea. Well, of course, first I shall have to make it. Oh the horrors of living the hermit life! Even a cuppa becomes a big deal. Oh, look! I already have one here beside the computer - but it's gone stone cold.

Rob
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