Old Snapshot (Wednesday)

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 adequately! (But I also hope you miss the real me, at least a little.)

One thing we sometimes hear on the internet is that our taste has simply been informed by what we're used to. I want to give myself more credit than that of course, but I can't actually argue with it too much. Here's a case in point, where I processed a digital picture and didn't realize until I was three-quarters through that I was making it look like an old Kodacolor snapshot printed by the local pharmacy.

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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Comments

[Peter Williams]

So, a dinghy with a dingy border.

[James]

Mike, 2008? The funny thing is, I distinctly remember your reply to a comment like it was yesterday........

"EmmJay,
These catboat owners wave!
Mike J."

Posted by: Mike J. | Monday, 13 October 2008 at 11:43 PM

[Jim Kofron]

I love the reworked photo, but I really appreciated the comment by Rory in 2008: Looks like lazy days when there is nothing wrong with the world - just don't turn on the radio or buy a newspaper!.

Rory--welcome to 2020!!

[Roger Bradbury]

I'm not much of a one for bright saturated colours unless that's what the subject looked like; I prefer a realistic rendition. However... sometimes just for fun, I'll go for 1970s postcard mode. You see, I remember English postcards with their saturated colours and deep blue polariser skies.

So, using DxO Optics I whack the ClearView setting up to maximum, and throw in about 8% strength yellow filter. ClearView is really for correcting distance haze but even if you haven't got that in your shot it perks up sky details and colour richness a treat. The little bit of yellow filter is the icing on the cake; it sunnies up the scene just the right amount. :)

It's no different from what Mike was doing, (he claims...) but I'm just referring back to a different sort of image; a different sort of memory.

[Merle Hall]

I just last night, in fact, used the art filter Vintage III on my PEN-F and I actually quite liked it, surprisingly. Doing it that way saves all the tedium of post processing on the computer. And it seemed good enough for me, anyway.

[David de Brossia]

David Hurn is an absolute gem. I can't pass a mention of him by without saying that his 1973 image, "Sheep shelter from the rain. Mynydd Epynt, Wales", is one of the most evocative images I've ever seen (but you might not understand quite how evocative unless you've spent times in Wales). I saw it in a magazine when I was about 8 years old and have never forgotten it. https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop/collections/david-hurn/sheep-shelter-from-the-rain-mynydd-epynt-wales-1973/