Click on the audio play button to listen to this 14 minute discussion on the future of photography by Stephen Schaub.
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Author: EveNSteve
Photographer Martin Schoeller’s TIME 100 Journey
All on film!!!!
Viva la Revolution- Stephen
A Few Thoughts for the Working Artist!
Listen in as artist Stephen Schaub and professional writer and former gallery owner Eve Ogden Schaub discuss important questions for the working artist today: to edition or not to edition?, the problem with online art, why artist statements matter and more. 28 minutes in total length.
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New Kodak Professional Portra 160 Film Review
When Kodak released the Portra 400 a few months ago many of us speculated that a new Portra 160 would be just around the corner… and guess what? Kodak has announced today that Kodak Professional Portra 160 will be released starting in March 2011 in: 35mm, 120/ 220, 4×5 and 8×10… fantastic!!! Click on the audio-play button to listen to a 13 minute in-depth review of this new film (I tested 120) and be sure to look at the sample images provided below while listening to the audio… What a nice way to start the week!!!
Viva la Revolution- Stephen
Please click on the images below to see larger versions of each.
Article for Consideration 2
First look at the images in this link by New York Times photographer Damon Winter’s photo series, “A Grunt’s Life”:
http://www.poyi.org/68/17/third_01.php
Now read this post:
http://www.e-ariana.com/ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/384DCFFD0D8AC102872578380074884A?OpenDocument
My quick thoughts…
1. A good image is a good image.
2. It’s not the camera, it’s the photographer. The camera is just a tool. No matter how much you spent on a camera, in the end it is a dumb block of mechanics that needs your vision and creativity to work. For those who feel that the iPhone app Hipstamatic is somehow “altering” the image I would say this:
What about grain? That’s not “natural.” What about the particular color palette of a film- Velvia, Kodachrome (had to get that one in for historic sake!)? What about TX pushed? What about print size, lens choice, framing decisions, depth of field— all of these affect the visual quality of the final image and are not “real” or neutral… and I have not even touched on the darkroom or Photoshop as editive creative elements! All photography is manipulation, all photography is editive!!!
3. Photojournalism has the word PHOTO in it for a reason.
Viva la Revolution- Stephen
PS- Thanks to Art for sending me these links and for helping start this conversation here on FR.
Article for Consideration
First click on the link below and read the article and look at the examples…
http://www.twinlenslife.com/2011/01/digital-vs-film-canon-5d-mark-ii-vs.html
Now here are my thoughts…
1. The film looks fantastic! The latitude is much better and I like the feeling of the film file much more.
2. The test was very good. It would have been even better if the film scan was done on a higher resolution scanner like say an Imacon. This would have also leveled the field a bit as the RAW processing done to the digital file corrects a lot (but apparently not enough) and the film image was stuck with a relatively middle of the road scan on a Fuji Frontier SP-2500. It is a shame that the scanned image had to be upsampled (due to the scanner resolution limitation) as this film has a lot of subtle detail that a higher quality scanner could have showed optically.
3. I would also like to hear their thoughts regarding a side by side print analysis say at 2 or 3 different sizes… the proof is in the print!
4. The digital wins in the high speed test but the film is still quite good.
In the end will this article sway any true blooded digital shooter to consider film…? I don’t think so, as there will be a myriad of excuses on the RAW conversion technique or other BS that really does not matter. It is a good solid test and it confirms once again the many strengths that film and the hybrid workflow provide for the working creative photographer
Viva la Revolution- Stephen
Missing Dennis Hopper Polaroid
Taken from http://laist.com/2011/02/05/missing_dennis_hopper_polaroid_disa.php
If you know anything please help in the recovery of this artwork.
Why Is It Not Still Good Enough For Us?
Good interview with Stephen Spielberg… if you want you can fast forward to 4:27 and listen to him speak about film… as I have said before, as long a motion picture film survives so does our medium…. suggestion- becomes friends with your local cinematographer as you both have a lot in common these days.
Between The Folds
After watching this movie last night I knew I had to share it here with a few of my own thoughts…
1. I really love paper and the Origami in this video is amazing (some more so than others).
2. Listen to the creative language used by the Origami masters… simplicity, technique, does it look real / does it matter if it looks real, art with emotion… sound familiar?… it should if you listen here on FR or if you’re one of my students.
3. The voice of the narrator is a bit hard to listen to at times and it drags a bit, but in the end it is a video quite well done.
A definite watch for creative people.
Click on the LINK below to watch online at PBS…
Want of Wonders
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
— G.K. Chesterton
Quick video on advertising and perception… many of the points raised mirror thoughts in the Figital Revolution Manifesto… thanks to Eric for sharing this.
Viva La Revolution- Stephen
Figital Revolution 