Where's everybody?

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), February 13, 2001

Answers

here

I'm here trying to learn enough about posting with my cornpeuwter so you all can see what a hack I am at people pictures.

-- james (james_mickelson@hotmail.com), February 13, 2001.

I'm here. Just haven't been shooting as many people shots for a while. But I have some new projects going that have people in them.

Two in the Restaurant, Copyright 2001 Jeff Spirer So here's one I happened to pop last month.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), February 14, 2001.

Hi Tony

I'm busy taking pictures of people. Need to create something to give to the board!

-ed

-- ed (ekang@cse.nd.edu), February 14, 2001.

Tony,

All sorts of reasons spring to mind. Some people may have wandered off to the new forum (what happened to that post -- can't find it again?). I have been terminally depressed ever since I discovered that Kodak has stopped the Photo CD service (well, maybe not terminally, but wondering what do do next). I've been trying out a new camera for light travel (Voightlander Bessa-R with 15mm f4, 35mm f1.5, and 70mm lenses) and while it is a great (GREAT!) little camera with truly wonderful lenses, I'm still trying to get used to a rangefinder so about a third of my images are out-of-focus.

And finally, I just have not been taking many people shots lately. Photographs with people in them, yes, like the one shown here of German commuters starring at a television screen on the central station. The funny or slightly surreal thing is that they'll stand and watch for half-hours at a time, but the screen only ever shows adverts for the national railways (DB). Bizzare.

Anyhow, how about this: everybody please post their latest image with people in it, even if it is crap like mine, to get a little traffic and discussion going. Also suggest what you would like to see in the forum.

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), February 18, 2001.

Struan plus two.

For the first time in my life I have a really good excuse for not doing things. For the truly starved, there's a gallery of people pics here.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), February 20, 2001.

Struan, you have done a remarkable job of documenting your budding family's beginning years. Along the lines of "what is the highest purpose of photography?" asked in the philosophy forum, how can a project like yours not be at the top? And what's funny is, you and me and most other adults marvel at the fact that our pictures are now on line and digital. When our children are grown, they'll ask "So what. What _else_ would you have used??" :-)

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), February 21, 2001.

Thanks Tony. It's been interesting to be in a situation where I really want to take a photos, while knowing that there will be no second chances. There are any number of babies in the world, but these two will be five minutes old but once.

I don't like rankings per se - it's the process of constructing them that I find interesting, not the final result - but my own photography is usually aimed at documenting my life and the things I find interesting, and it is hard to think of events with a similar significance.

I have a photographic memory, and have always thought of images seperately from their physical representation, so the abstraction of the online world already seems natural to me. Also, the ease with which I can use my website to distribute a whole photo album to literally hundreds of friends and family around the world is a massive practical advance. But, and I think it is a but which applies generally, the physical presentation of a real print still adds something extra, just as live performances are more than recordings.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), February 22, 2001.

o my. new job (again!)...i have computer access, and i just realized i have a purty little scanjet 4c sitting beside me. gotta get some new work up asap. missed you guys and girls...hope ya missed me just a little too...ugh...:-)

-- shawn (seeinsideforever@yahoo.com), February 23, 2001.

Hey gang, I've been busy pushing forward with my work, but just wanted to say 'hey', and help keep this baby goin', it's a great source of info!

-- Robert Anderson (rap@rapfoto.com), February 24, 2001.

Wow, Robert! Nice picture! Could we have some more, please? :-)

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), March 26, 2001.

It's time to resurrect this thread and ask the question again....

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), October 17, 2001.

I hear that! I've been having a hard time taking pictures lately. Don't know what it is. But at least I have access now to a scanner (again. finally.) so I actually "could" be posting some more here pretty soon.

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), October 17, 2001.

I didn't want to flood the forum with my crappy pictures, but I have one in my camera that I think will be worth posting!

-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@unite.com.au), October 17, 2001.

Post whether you like it or not!!!

Or if you have scanned it or not!!!

(Wait a minute, that doesn't work.)

This has been a great forum, but it's gotten r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w.

I will try to scan tonight from some studio (!!!!!) stuff I did this week.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), October 17, 2001.

The Swedish state is paying me 90% of my salary to stay at home and look after my kids. Goofing off from that is proving harder than goofing off from work, so for the moment I'm enjoying other people's efforts and trying to work out when I can next sit down with a scanner for longer than ten seconds.

I actually think it's a healthy thing if people wait until they have something to say. That is, provided they do eventually find *something* to say.

Nigel: I've learnt a lot from posting images I'm unhappy with here, particularly ones where I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong.

James: when do we get to see the girls skateboarding down the boardwalk? You've had your scanner long enough now :-)

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), October 18, 2001.

yes, I've learnt a lot. Never really took many pics of people until finding this forum. Still don't really, but slowly geting more adventurous. Actually, it's probably a good thing the forum isn't bombarded with pics!

BTW, James has been posting over at usefilm.com Must be testing the waters before coming into the wolf's den :)

-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@unite.com.au), October 18, 2001.