Yr. Hmbl. Ed. is on a break this week, so I thought we'd post some "oldies" that you might not have seen before. This week I'll feature posts that contain at least one photograph by me, since I'm sometimes accused of never publishing my own work. These will appear at 7:00 Eastern U.S. Time every morning. Hope it tides you over!
Here's an article I did in June of 2013 showing the run-up to a certain portrait. I admit I'm fascinated by this process...how you keep looking, seeing what happens, reacting, and then having things come together. (Or not.) I've written several posts on this topic over the years. Here I started out thinking something was about to come together between husband and wife, and I ended up with a portrait of mother and daughter. "You never know how things are going to go."
By the way, here's the portrait that I ended up with.
I have a favor to ask: Since I'll be moderating comments on my phone, would you please help me out by making comments brief and not including any links? Just for a short time. Thanks much. I'll be back at the end of this week.
Mike
Book of interest this week:
David Hurn: Arizona Trips. Reel Art Press, 2017. "In 1979–80 [David Hurn] was awarded a UK/USA Bicentennial Fellowship, a one-year award to photograph in America. He chose Arizona, as 'the most right-wing state in America, plus it is the driest state in America. The exact opposite of my home country Wales. The contrasts appealed to me.' Hurn fell in love with Arizona and made several trips back between 1979 and 2001."
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I also like a key line around my b&w images. Funny thing though. In silver-based printing printing to the edge of the negative was a bit of swagger: "See? The image is as I saw it with no crop needed to find the art." With Silver Efx Pro, it is exactly the opposite. Instead of adding a boarder to edges of your image, SFX covers the boarder of your image the a "picture" of a boarder. So your final digital image actually shows slightly less of the frame than what was composed in camera. Is there an antonym for "swagger"? In practice, of course, every photographer only has to rationalize his or her own practice. Me? I just like things in a container. . . .
Posted by: Benjamin Marks | Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 07:34 AM
Regarding that 2013 post about trying to get the look of your digital image output to be consistent with your earlier work on Tri-X, here's a picture posted online in 2008 by a photographer from Ukraine. I'd kill to be able to get the look in this image in my digital pictures.
http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic.php?t=82086&view=next
Posted by: Mani Sitaraman | Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 03:05 AM
I love how your family is so used to you taking photos and they're not self conscious about it or act unnatural. I have the hardest time getting my family to do the same. It's the candid photos truly grasp life, ones you can remember exactly how you felt in that moment, not staged and forced to say cheese.
Posted by: Tara Brown | Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 01:55 PM