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Posted by: Michael McGowan (24.93.248.8) on June 29, 2003 at 02:14:53
Location: Ohio
In Reply to: Your Future........... posted by Owen Phairis on June 29, 2003 at 00:20:00:
Owen, I know you're trying to copy the type of work done a long time ago. But I've seen many prints from that era. They have a vibrancy and tonal range you might find surprising. Your photos look like the third-generation material we see these days, instead of the strong, full-range photos that originally wowed people.
We don't have many sources for really good reproductions of photos from that era these days. The shows I saw that knocked me out were in the 1960s and 1970s. By now, many of those images are simply crumbling into dust, because the materials from which they were made are dying.
But the memory of strong, fluid and tonally wonderful images lives on with me. The depth of the blacks, the long, smooth transition of tones from blackest black to whitest white, the amazing detail, even in the intentionally soft pictures. All those elements made those photos very alive.
Those pictures weren't like Ansel Adams' pristine shots. But they did have a texture and a depth that was amazing.
The more you can incorporate that into yours, the more you'll be able to say with your own photography.
(By the way, this is a notion that my first photography professor instilled in us: Don't try to emulate reproductions of photos. You'll always come up with a second-class image.)
Oh, and not all color is "drug store color."
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