If photography was music

Photography itself is like the blues scale. You can learn the mechanics of it very quickly, but you can spend your whole lifetime trying to say something original with it.
 
If Leica were Gibson or Fender, they'd be producing historic reissues of all their most revered cameras, and you would have a choice of NOS, Closet Classic, or Relic treatment on your new M3.
 
If photography were music...

If photography were music...

rohankent said:
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...
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An M3 is like a Gibsom L5CES, my friend. Otherwise, I agree 100%
A fifty-year guitarist and forty-five-year photographer.
 
If photography were music, mine would be Tom Waits' Chocolate Jesus played
on a record player in the garage with a blown speaker. Bzzzzzt. 🙂
 
Vics said:
An M3 is like a Gibsom L5CES, my friend. Otherwise, I agree 100%
A fifty-year guitarist and forty-five-year photographer.
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I stand corrected. I've never owned an M3 but I do own an L4CES, and have always wanted an L5CES 🙂
 
Yes!!!

Yes!!!

Vics said:
An M3 is like a Gibsom L5CES, my friend. Otherwise, I agree 100%
A fifty-year guitarist and forty-five-year photographer.
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I was about to post this, but you beat me to it.

Jazz?

An M-3 is a Gibson L5 in the hands of Charlie Christian.

An M-2 is a Selmer in the hands of Django Reinhardt.

An M-6 is a Gibson L4 or L7 in the hands of Wes Montgomery.

A Russian camera would be like listening to a Poem by Taras Schevchenko...

Weegee or the likes would be like listening to the soundtrack of a film noir.

M-9/M-E/or M would be like listening to Acid Jazz...or Trip Hop. Lot's of samples from Jazz, Bluebeat, and Bossa Nova...but with a new twist. New, with a twist from the old.

Contax G-1...Devo drum machines.

...I can't figure out how to work in a Gretsch.
 
My Nikon SP loaded with Kodak XX is "Blood Money" by Tom Waits, I think.

My D2x... I'm not sure what it is yet. Since it's kind of funky these days and a bit older, I'm thinking maybe "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I guess it all depends upon my mood.

Phil Forrest
 
Music...me

Music...me

And, if my photography were music...it would be Gil-Scott Heron.

"Black and Whitey on the Moon"

and

"This Revolution Will Be Digitized, by a Nikon Scanner."
 
bohdan said:
I was about to post this, but you beat me to it.

Jazz?

An M-3 is a Gibson L5 in the hands of Charlie Christian.

An M-2 is a Selmer in the hands of Django Reinhardt.

An M-6 is a Gibson L4 or L7 in the hands of Wes Montgomery.
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So, which camera would be like a Telecaster in the hands of Bill Frisell? I want that camera.
 
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