Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I loved Cuba and would go back anytime. I was taking photos to sell for stock and photos for myself. I think you can tell the difference. The stock ones are selling very well because everybody wants the cliche photos that look like "Cuba". I think if you look far enough you'll find the real people. http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery/Cuba/G0000TudpsyJmsLU/ TIna On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Luis, > IMHO, the most difficult assignments in photography are those that take > you to iconic places or events, because it is so difficult to find > something new to photograph and show, that has not been done a few million > times before. Human interaction is certainly one way out, because of its > innate unpredictability, but when an entire population gets used to posing > in a certain way, and loses all spontaneity, it becomes repetitive as > well. It is definitely is very true of tourist dependant cultures, like for > example the Masai in East Africa, and I suspect, the Cubans as well. > Cheers > Jayanand > > Sent from my iPad > > > On 09-Mar-2016, at 04:38, lluisripollphotography < > lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Jayanand, > > > > You mention a very interesting aspect on photography. Many of us we are > going to events or places to take photographs because there is some event > that make > > an interesting subject for a shot, however we are reproducing something > that it is there, at that moment, except if we capture an exceptional > decisive moment on the action, we are not creating we are simply copying. I > think and I try to search on ordinary life, on everyday scenes something > interesting in the sense that I would like create the even and not > reproduce an even as it is. > > > > I think your observation very interesting on this sense. > > > > Cheers > > Lluis > > > > > > > >> El 6 mar? 2016, a les 14:11, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > va escriure: > >> > >> Cuba has been "discovered" some years ago, and most photographs from > there show a touristy sameness that is getting monotonous. Time to go to > other countries, and show your tourist snapshots, before they, too, lose > their novelty value, like Myanmar or Iran.....:-) > >> Cheers > >> Jayanand > >> > >> Sent from my iPad > >> > >>> On 06-Mar-2016, at 11:51, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Well, as for colors, all the pictures from that exhibition are B&W. > >>> > >>> The other one, from Murcia, is in color. > >>> > >>> There are many photographs from Cuba these days, but the percentage of > good ones is not high. These are good, IMO. > >>> > >>> Finally, having been born and lived the first 11 years of my life in a > Communist country, I can assure you that the Cubans look forward to the > arrival of Starbucks, Safeway, modern cars etc. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Nathan > >>> > >>> Nathan Wajsman > >>> Alicante, Spain > >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > >>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > >>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > >>> YNWA > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> On 06 Mar 2016, at 01:23, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> No reflection on the exhibit shown, which is quite nice, but any > images > >>>> taken in Cuba seem to be winning formula.... > >>>> > >>>> ......Mind you, I am jealous,,,,, > >>>> > >>>> But the place looks like every photographer of people, old stuff, and > color > >>>> should go there.... before us Americans ruin the place with Starbucks, > >>>> Safeway, B of A., and "modern" color palettes of Gray, Mauve, and > >>>> Taupe..... > >>>> > >>>> Frank Filippone > >>>> Red735i at verizon.net > >>>> > >>>> Alicante has decided to have a photography festival, I supposed > trying to > >>>> emulate cities like Madrid and Perpignan. So today I went to see four > >>>> exhibitions. Two of them were quite indifferent, but these two I > really > >>>> liked: > >>>> > >>>> http://www.mayoralphotography.com/entre-dos-aguas-2/ > >>>> > >>>> http://gustavoaleman.net/No-soy-de-aqui > >>>> > >>>> Both are the kind of photography I like to do, and the first one very > much > >>>> made me think of our own Lluis. > >>>> > >>>> Cheers, > >>>> Nathan > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Leica Users Group. > >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/tinamanley http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/