February 2012
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“The truth is that an artist’s appraisal of his own work, in terms of how much...”
– Andrew Hussie (via sillywillyver)
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“It’s your work that matters; you haven’t got to bother what people...”
– Richard Billingham (via dwbrewster)
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“He doesn’t care about what the mainstream wants, he makes music for himself, and...”
– Mr. Oizo: Anything But a One-Hit Wonder
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“There are billions of photographs online…, and the question often becomes how...”
– Jörg Colberg (via camerasimplex)
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“It’s time to realize that social-networking sites come with only one guarantee:...”
– Jörg Colberg (via Nina Perlman)
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“The next step would be to put the print up on the viewing board for 1–3 days and...”
– Mike Johnston
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I have been thinking lately about how certain visual effects caused by the technology of photography cause associations in peoples’ minds when they look at photographs. Not photographers’ minds; everybody’s. Take tilt-shift. The closer you focus, the less depth of focus you have, so photographs of small things tend to have large areas that are out-of-focus. Now flip that on...
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“Synesthesia is the way to go.”
– Artemis Günebakanlı
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HELLO NEW FOLLOWERS
→ Please follow jimfranks ←
because that’s where I post the photographs I take.
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“Does it though? The retort to fit virtually every artist statement.”
– Colin Pantall
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“Photography for me isn’t anything more than a way to go through life.”
– John Sypal
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The Helsinki Bus Station Theory →
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“I don’t want to think about technique, because technique blocks your mind.”
– Tomasz Lazar
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I did lose the last frame on my bulk-loaded roll :(
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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a...”
– Pablo Picasso
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“It is well known that Pablo Picasso had exceptional talent for drawing very...”
– Jerome Arfouche
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Ok, I’m torn. On the one hand I love intensely diaristic work like Patrick Tsai’s. On the other hand I love the idea of unplugging like Jake Reilly. Could I fully unplug like he did? Do I want to change how I spend my time online as opposed to erasing it altogether. So one-to-one emailing is something I’ve been crap at lately. I have an email from my-friend-red I’ve been...
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Yesterday I arrived in Brussels in the middle of a snowstorm. It was beautiful, big luxury flakes. The only problem was that inbetween sorting everybody out my camera ended up in the boot of the taxi and I couldn’t take any photos from the car :(
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“There is a big difference between trying not to influence a scene and trying not...”
– Severin Koller
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I bulk-loaded my first roll of film. Just the one for now: I want to see how many frames I end up with before I do any more. I wound out 35, but I’m guessing a chunk of that will be wastage.
January 2012
20 posts
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“I don’t want to stop and compose and make everything absolutely perfect, I...”
– Danny Wilcox-Frazier
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“One more nice correspondence between photography and fishing: the more time you...”
– Mike Johnston
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Thanks everyone for your replies to my bulk loading post! Hopefully the film will be here tomorrow, I’ll let you know how I get on…
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“If I take fifteen work prints that I just shot and put them up on the board, I...”
– Mike Johnston
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My bulk loader arrived, but the film that was in it was all exposed. I’m hoping this was because somebody opened it and not because it’s broken, because I just bought 17m of HP5 which I’m about to ruin if it is!
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“For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional...”
– Alec Soth
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One really neat way I streamlined my processes was that I realised I could just rack the enlarger out of focus to make the light big enough to cover a contact sheet. Previously I was raising the head, which was ok before I got the oversize carrier but now I have it it takes a good few sheets of paper before I have the height right for printing again, and I was putting off making contact sheets...
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“I find I am most inspired when I am not looking at other people’s photography on...”
– John Keatley
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I stopped smoking last week, and I’ve been wired ever since, like I’ve drunk a ton of coffee. I tried drinking a ton of coffee to see if I’d “catch up”, but it didn’t work, and nor did drinking beer to “level off”; I just ended up wired AND drunk. None of this really meshes with the calm, Zen state of taking pictures, so it’s all been a dead...
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“Don’t analyze enthusiasm.”
– Rumi
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“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as...”
– Garry Winogrand
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“I think consistency is as important as originality. I think if you stick to one...”
– Justin Vogel
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December 2011
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“When we enforce a constraint, we throw a boulder into the path of least...”
– CJ Chilvers
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