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SimonSawSunlight

SimonSawSunlight

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I just wrote a 'blog' entry on my deviantArt page, trying to summarise some of my most 'characteristic' ways, practices and 'tricks' in photography. I originally wanted to have a simple collection of different series but eventually ended up with this:
http://simonsawsunlight.deviantart.com/journal/33520764/
no worries, it's a lot of pictures (some of them twice :D) and not much text. click the pictures for full view.

thanks for your interest or feedback, even!
 
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I am going to have to agree with Patrick. I really enoyed that post, and your images. They strike me as being a street equivalent to Ralph Gibson. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work.
 
My style: good photo and written essay. I wish there were more photographers that would bare their souls; both with final images and why they did it that way, and with tricks of development, unusual equipment, films, filters, added light (flash), perspective because of an different camera type (TLR, SLR, RF).
 
Great artistic introspection. Not so much an expose on your style, as it is a look at how to evaluate style in general. Thanks for posting this!
 
Thanks for posting Simon. I have always enjoyed your photos here, flickr, and your blog.
 
thanks y'all, much obliged!

raytoei@gmail.com said:
hi. excellent. I tried to print the page but it got truncated. any idea how to make a printer-friendly version of the page ?

thanks !
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have you tried copying the whole thing into Word or something comparable? deviantArt is laaaaaagging right now, but I will try to print it here and see...
 
Much to admire there. Many moments that might have passed by lesser photographers (such as me!).

John
 
I've just read you're blog Simon, some excellent thoughts and good pictures...I particularly like the shot on the beach with the guy framed by the empty sign border.

Your thoughts have made me realise that I have kind of stopped thinking about pictures in the way you have described and seem to go by instinct instead. This is probably why I feel I'm not succeeding with my personal snaps much lately so I've decided to put a little more thought and analysis into what I shoot and what I have shot in the hope that my eyes ( and brain ) will look afresh at scenes that are before me.

Thanks for the, unintended but much needed, kick up the @rse
 
Thanks for sharing Simon.

I've enjoyed the Figurative Symmetry thread here at RFF, and immediately started seeing these opportunities after reading your intro post. Now have a number of shots where I'd somewhat avoided symmetry before. I think the idea of imperfect symmetry or symmetry with differences is more appealing to me.

Contrast and Dynamics are two elements I plan to consciously focus on in the coming weeks.
 
Excellent.
As posted above, sorta Ralph Gibson-ish in tone, but maybe Elliott Erwitt-ish in spirit?

I suppose this is an illustration of why i'll never make a decent street photograph. I just don't see that way, nor do i spend enough time looking for these types of images.

I wonder, though.... The fifteenth shot down... "I love it when they suggest something else than what is actually happening, or when they show something that IS happening but hard or impossible to see." In that brief instant, could you really see that the shadow looked so threatening (billfold versus knife)? Or was this an example of something 'found' on a contact sheet later, and appreciated+selected because of what you happened to catch?
 
thanks again everyone. :eek:

Simon, I'm not sure if the 'intellectual' part has to happen consciously or by intuition. in the end, it's important that the shot works, not how it came to be.
and I've yet to see a shot of yours that doesn't work.
:)

CK Dexter Haven said:
Excellent.
As posted above, sorta Ralph Gibson-ish in tone, but maybe Elliott Erwitt-ish in spirit?

I suppose this is an illustration of why i'll never make a decent street photograph. I just don't see that way, nor do i spend enough time looking for these types of images.

I wonder, though.... The fifteenth shot down... "I love it when they suggest something else than what is actually happening, or when they show something that IS happening but hard or impossible to see." In that brief instant, could you really see that the shadow looked so threatening (billfold versus knife)? Or was this an example of something 'found' on a contact sheet later, and appreciated+selected because of what you happened to catch?
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thanks! that shot has been taken last summer in Cogolin, southern France. I was walking behind that man for a minute or so, had been shooting a lot that day and was very aware of what was happening. his general attitude and his shadow had drawn my attention and when I saw him reach for his wallet cowboy-style I instinctively took the shot. I was lucky enough to get the timing right and it worked out rather well. :)
 
Simon, thank you for that inspiring piece of writing and photos.. It can be a nice exercise for me these days as I am struggling again here in Prague - after a month of journeys with plenty interesting sights in this damp city again..
Well.. Perhaps it's now the time for a short trip to Berlin.. :)
 
The photos included with the concept makes your point, and I admire your photos, especially the bocce player after all it is about timing.
 
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