Interesting website

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Found this website recently. Thought someone else might find it interesting. There is some good street stuff.

http://www.in-public.com

-- jeff voorhees (debontekou@yahoo.com), December 14, 2001

Answers

Nice site, Jeff.

Thanks!

-- Steve Hoffman (shoffman2@socal.rr.con), December 14, 2001.


Pity a great bulk of the shots are laden down with the standard SP cliche's of tilted + uber-wide angle + shoot-from-behind + B&W. :?(

-- Andrew Nemeth (azn@nemeng.com), December 14, 2001.

Andrew-

I do have to agree with the tilt/wide angle/posterior POV's present in too many of the shots. Perhaps we can straigthen them out a bit.

-- jeff voorhees (debontekou@yahoo.com), December 14, 2001.


Once you get over feeling sorry for their lack of originality, take another look. There are some absolute gems of vision in there. I wish I had a fraction of the instinctive visual understanding that's sprinkled so liberally through these pictures.

This site really struck a chord with me - thanks for posting the link, jeff.

-- Paul Chefurka (paul@chefurka.com), December 14, 2001.


Yes, perhaps some or many of them could have specific non pleasant characteristics for specific tastes, but I second Paul. I sent this site right into Favorites in my computer. Lots of stuff to study . . .! Thanks, Jeff

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), December 14, 2001.



I sent this site right into Favorites in my computer.

So did I. Curious to see who is going to be the first among us "usual suspects" to be exhibiting there...? Drop a note. ;o)

-- Lutz Konermann (lutz@konermann.net), December 15, 2001.

excellent work!

what is wrong with tilting the camera? i have no use for a bubble level. isn't that what street photography is about?

i bookmarked that site too. and i guess i have to rethink my aversion against the london underground.

-- stefan randlkofer (geesbert@yahoo.com), December 15, 2001.


Best "Decisive Moment" work I've seen for a long time. The shot of joggers stretching their legs against a fence and the dogs raising theirs is a classic. Bravo! Definitely bookmarked.

-- Bill (bmitch@home.com), December 15, 2001.

Interesting site with visually nice photos, but it reminds me of my main problem with "street photography"--that it often uses people purely as props in a graphic layout, and reveals nothing about people as individuals, much less even as human beings.

-- Michael Darnton (mdarnton@hotmail.com), December 15, 2001.

It's good that the site offers some surrealism and whimsy, which is street photography's great legacy. How much "street photography" is little more than B&W surveillance of strangers eating in cafes or buying a newspaper . . .

Preston

-- Preston Merchant (merchant@speakeasy.org), December 18, 2001.



Some is no more than 'Colour' surveillance of strangers eating in cafes or buying a newspaper . . .as those who have visited Mr Nemeths site could testify. If you cant 'see' any of the wonderful happenings that go on in public places it may be because you are concentrating on the spirit level on the top of your camera. Good Photography is about looking harder and seeing more, whatever film,camera or lens you are using, it is about the way you select and edit time and space. Regarding cliche's, the oldest one in the book is the photographer with all the equipment and all the talk but no 'eye'.

Happy New Year

See you on the street.

-- nick turpin (nick@turpin-online.ukf.net), January 02, 2002.


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