rkm
Well-known
Long time musician here, and novice photographer. I can't help notice how many parallels there are between music making and photography.
For instance:
- Street Is the Jazz of photography: It happens in the moment, interprets a complex set of circumstances, can be ugly/beautiful... It is what it is. Shadows and highlights are equally important. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. Jazz is existence music. Street is existence photography.
- A Leica M3 is like a Fender Telecaster: Deceptively low on features, but surprisingly versatile. The emphasis is on what the hands of the artist can do with it. Also, they don't make them like they used to.
With broad brush strokes, and tongue firmly in cheek if you wish, add your own observations...
For instance:
- Street Is the Jazz of photography: It happens in the moment, interprets a complex set of circumstances, can be ugly/beautiful... It is what it is. Shadows and highlights are equally important. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. Jazz is existence music. Street is existence photography.
- A Leica M3 is like a Fender Telecaster: Deceptively low on features, but surprisingly versatile. The emphasis is on what the hands of the artist can do with it. Also, they don't make them like they used to.
With broad brush strokes, and tongue firmly in cheek if you wish, add your own observations...
Roger Hicks
Veteran
8x10 inch: kettle drum. Hard to ignore!
Minox: Piccolo. Just looks like one.
M9: Second-generation Moog.
Leica S: Grand piano.
Nudes: chamber music?
Olympus (until recently): fiddle.
Cheers,
R.
Minox: Piccolo. Just looks like one.
M9: Second-generation Moog.
Leica S: Grand piano.
Nudes: chamber music?
Olympus (until recently): fiddle.
Cheers,
R.
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Hexar AF - air guitar
daveleo
what?
My current photographic style is . . . elevator music
My stylistic ambition is . . . . . Jazz
My stylistic ambition is . . . . . Jazz
sreed2006
Well-known
So which camera is the cannon from the 1812 Overture?
The one-time-use cameras are like penny flutes.
The one-time-use cameras are like penny flutes.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
12x15 inch Gandolfi Universal.
Frances suggests that a Nikon SP is like Mozart: covered in twiddly bits.
Cheers,
R.
sanmich
Veteran
HCB would be Bach at the cello
Elliott Erwitt, Eric Satie
I would be a 6 years old on his third lesson of violin.
Elliott Erwitt, Eric Satie
I would be a 6 years old on his third lesson of violin.
mbisc
Silver Halide User
Merge the two -- listen to Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite while looking at (or taking) images of the Grand Canyon 
charjohncarter
Veteran
If you saw my cameras, you'd say Blues.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band:
"Can blue men sing the whites...?"
Chers,
R.
"Can blue men sing the whites...?"
Chers,
R.
grapejohnson
Well-known
I wonder who Dorothea Lange and Weegee would be musically
grapejohnson
Well-known
rangefinders remind me more of telecasters than strats
pakeha
Well-known
FSU must be anti establishment,anti cliche,anti status quo punk then...cool
charjohncarter
Veteran
IIIf reminds me of a Telecaster. Les Paul=M-3, M-9=synthesizer.
grapejohnson
Well-known
The M9 would be a DX7. Absolutely.
lynnb
Veteran
lynnb
Veteran
Mustn't forget to mention Steiglitz's 1923 series of cloud studies he called "Equivalents". An example from this series is "Clouds, Music No. 1, Lake George", part of a series of ten cloud photographs that he directly identified as visual music. (Source: "A History of Photography from 1839 to the Present, The George Eastman House Collection", pp. 483-485, Taschen).
grapejohnson
Well-known
man, what would be the glorious 9th? the hubble?
f6andBthere
Well-known
I can't think of a Nikon F without thinking about Duran Duran's 'Girls On Film.'
rkm
Well-known
I can't think of Girls on Film without thinking about the accompanying video clip.
I remember playing a bar gig when it came up on the venues TVs. I lost my way in the song :S