most of the pics i take are of "boring" things but actually they mean a bit to me and hope i can make others see what i see

Thanks for reminding me about his work. I'm gonna dig into his work again. Good video!

Excellent to see you back at portraits....it's what I love to do as well !!!

This is a great series. I recently have been trying to approach my work with the idea “would I print this out and hang it up?” And I’m looking to take more photos like that. A lot of times, I don’t know if it’s my glass (or lack thereof), skills (or lack thereof), or composition/editing (or lack thereof) that is holding me back the most. But I’m definitely getting better approaching my work as a craft. Videos like this are always my favorite. It’s more impactful to hear stories of the people who were here before and the intangibles of their art rather than just “buy this camera and shoot at these settings” no offense intended towards the latter type of video.

The silhouette alone provides feeling

I hate taking portraits, I find it difficult with my disabilities, I can’t pose people and I just don’t 'feel it'. However, I think in many ways this increases my respect for those who can do it and I love playing with studio lighting and still lives. If you give me a book by Avedon, Penn, Cunningham, Litchfield or Neumann and many more and I can sit for hours looking at a single image working out the lighting etc. There’s something very special about how they created with the equipment they had. I think Avedon and Penn had much more respect for each other than they let on, The 'couple' were the Duke of Westminster (Edward VIII who abdicated) and Wallace Simpson. Great video Eric, I can talk the greats all day long.

Greatttr video. Super on point with fear being a helper, I remember when I threw my first event, I was sooo nervous. I was working with someone who could not standdd me but by the end of the event they were asking me to partner up with them again ASAP 😂 I was sooo terrified during the event, but I can remember the fear keeping me focused lmao

Eric, the people in that photo at 7:00 are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, formerly King VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson.

@Eric_Rossi

5 жыл бұрын

yup!

This is great man. It's so true about printing. I have a big time Canon printer. And haven't printed in forever. That needs to change.

@Eric_Rossi

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I still need to get mine fixed, failing on that as well

That image of Malcolm X demonstrates that if one is famous enough some of your failure can be regarded as success. I do not believe Avedon set out to make the image, however the image is credible because it is different than any other, and because it was shot by Avedon; anything shot by Avedon is good!The average photographer cannot deliver such abstract like images to their clients! That image is my favorite Malcolm X depiction, it is abstractly different, it was shot by Avedon and it is just plain cool.

@MoncoField

3 жыл бұрын

Avedon intentionally made that photo of Malcom x like that. There were no failures with him. His failures were the pictures no one ever saw lol

@RickMentore

3 жыл бұрын

@@MoncoField For security and other reasons, one could not easily get an audience with Malcolm X. I am convince Avedon's deadline forced him to submit that image. That image is a mistake made famous because of the photographer Avedon and the subject Malcolm X. It is a cool image!

@MoncoField

3 жыл бұрын

@@RickMentore i completely understand that but also at that time Avedon was intentionally slowing the shutter down to quote: "make peoples faces move." Nevermind the fact that malcom is posed in front of a white backdrop (Avedons signature look) and if you look at the contract sheet from that shoot there are a ton of regular shots not in motion.

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@Eric_Rossi

5 жыл бұрын

thanks man, welcome to the community!

Fell like the X pic was more about the man then the picture