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I was a designer/art director working in tech...
Sep 17, 2020,14:41 PM
...before digital photography (it got easier with digital but setup was still a bitch). We would set up a table-top shot with multiple lights, gels, different exposures, etc., and shoot maybe 20 to 30 4x5 film positives. Then we'd go to lunch and wait for the developed film, slap them on a light table, and pick the 'magic' image. All to make a hard drive or a modem look sexy : ) Of course, after scanning and ultimately printing in CMYK, the bright, sharp, saturated film positive has lost much of its impact. Good thing only me and the photographer knew how good the original was...
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Pepper № 12
By: cshimokita : September 16th, 2020-13:39
To acknowledge the work of Edward Weston (1886 – 1958). His famous "Pepper No. 30" photograph was taken during a four-day period from August 2–6, 1930... a little over 90 years ago. One of, if not his most well known photograph... the story behind the Wes...
I looked at the original 'pepper' photo...
By: mdg : September 16th, 2020-17:26
...and saw nothing earth-shattering. It was a pepper with nice lighting. I think it's only famous because someone paid to much for it. His portraits, on the other hand, were incredible...
mdg: Weston's "still life" period
By: cshimokita : September 16th, 2020-21:15
reminds me of Alfred Stieglitz's cloud photographs... which he took between 1925 to 1934. The same time frame as Weston's Pepper No. 30. Siteglitz's clouds are generally recognized as the first photographs intended to free the subject matter from literal ...
What a great version you made
By: Jurry : September 17th, 2020-01:46
At first I thought the shutter speed you used was a typo but then I read that he himself had a 4 hour exposure haha In today’s world his photos may not be so special, but in his day and age, it was pure pure art. Early last century taking photos of vegeta...
I was surprised to read that Weston's Pepper photo was 90 years old...
By: cshimokita : September 17th, 2020-13:52
it doesn't seem like it's been that long but I guess time slips away. Not so much that his subjects were vegetables, sea shells, etc., but that they were abstract. I was interested to read a bit about his set-up and execution of Pepper No. 30 I can't imag...
I was a designer/art director working in tech...
By: mdg : September 17th, 2020-14:41
...before digital photography (it got easier with digital but setup was still a bitch). We would set up a table-top shot with multiple lights, gels, different exposures, etc., and shoot maybe 20 to 30 4x5 film positives. Then we'd go to lunch and wait for...
Henry Moore's first public commission
By: cshimokita : September 17th, 2020-13:54
"West Wind" (1928–29), was one of the eight reliefs of the 'four winds' high on the walls of London Underground's headquarters at 55 Broadway. So in some ways he might be considered a contemporary of Weston and Stieglitz. It always intrigued me that a num...
I know that building well
By: Centurionone : September 17th, 2020-14:12
It’s in Petty France just off ’ Park . A must for Art Deco lovers 😍
hahaha... we see what we see
By: cshimokita : September 19th, 2020-14:16
Thanks for the comment terbaboom... as Weston wrote, in the end it's also just a pepper ; ) Casey