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Subject: [Leica] Seven decades of classic photography from the Observer
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Photography)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 01:25:16 +0100
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Peter,

Beside the charme of the film nuances, one of the things that in my opinion 
makes a difference is the concept of ?perfection?, generally the digital 
offers more perfection and more information about the image, film looks like 
it is hiding a little bit of something. I think that a film picture requires 
more of our attention looking at it than a digital where everything is so 
evident. The fact of hide something, invite us to ask more questions, I 
don?t remember which great photographer has said that a good picture is the 
one that ask us a question. The lack of the evident perfection give to the 
film an special ?sensual? attraction?. at least is what I think.
Lluis
 


> El 8 des 2016, a les 1:00, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va 
> escriure:
> 
> I wonder if the fact that you can't take as many photos with film as you 
> can
> with digital makes you concentrate more on what you are photographing and 
> how
> you do it. That in turn may lead to different styles of photography, as
> different from 35mm film as 35mm is from wetplate.
> 
> An example might be that a lot of digital images are much less likely to be
> posed; more "snaps" (I am not talking about LUGers shots here). I recently 
> went
> to see the Vivien Maier exhibition "Chroniques Am?ricains" in France. I 
> was very
> much struck by the picture taken in Florida of a woman in a ball gown 
> walking
> towards a big fifties car (it's about halfway down this page:
> http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/vivian-maier/ ). It could only be film: the
> blurring, the depth of shadow, the opportunism all say "film" to me.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 07/12/2016 19:29, Lluis Ripoll Photography wrote:
>> Peter,
>> 
>> I?ve started on digital in 2009. I think it not has influenced on my 
>> work, maybe I?ve increased the night work, for me one of the things 
>> producing a change on my work has been that the ?click? is much more 
>> quite on a classical M than on a digital, the recent last M?s M240, 246 ? 
>> are much more quite than the M9 or the first Monochrom
>> 
>> Lluis
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> El 7 des 2016, a les 20:13, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va 
>>> escriure:
>>> 
>>> Both,
>>> 
>>> beautiful images.
>>> 
>>> Luis, is 2004 when you went digital? Is it just me or is it that digital 
>>> has
>>> completely changed styles of photography? I sometimes feel as if film 
>>> yields a
>>> different type of image because of the difference in working with it. 
>>> Does
>>> anyone agree?
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> On 06/12/2016 00:38, Lluis Ripoll Photography wrote:
>>>> Gerry,
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you very much for sharing these masterpieces I will be never 
>>>> tired to look at. 
>>>> 
>>>> When I see these I?m more convinced that the perfection of the digital 
>>>> images has spoiled the magic charme of the classical photography and 
>>>> even I regret more and more to have discontinued the use of film, even 
>>>> if in my opinion, it is no more as it was in the past. 
>>>> 
>>>> Even looking at my own film pictures, lately I?m working a lot with my 
>>>> old pictures, I can see a difference between the pictures I shoot 
>>>> before the year ? say 2004 and the later ones?. Did you noticed this?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Lluis
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> El 4 des 2016, a les 8:23, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> 
>>>>> va escriure:
>>>>> 
>>>>> A great ?anthology? of 70 years of images from some of the best around:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/gallery/2016/dec/03/seven-decades-of-classic-photography-from-the-observer?CMP=share_btn_link
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Enjoy!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Gerry  
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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