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Anonymous
Hi /p/

I'm looking for websites/books that deal not with photography technique itself, but all surrounding it - for example how to "fit" into a group of unknown foreign people when wanting to shoot portraits and stuff...get my drift ?
>> Anonymous
It's easy, try EMPATHIZING with them.
>> Anonymous
Just give them money, you pretentious twat.
>> Anonymous
>>84900
Exactly. Get in with them. You can't expect more than just one quick candid portrait out of a group without talking to them. Someone once said something to the effect of that it's near impossible for people not to notice your camera, so the goal instead is to stop reminding them about it. If you hang around them for a time, constantly taking a snap here and there, they'll get used to it.

And first, just try going in with them without taking any shots, maybe even without a camera. Get them comfortable with you. I've never done this, but what a lot of people do is after a little taking a camera, shooting them just a little, and making some quick cheap prints and bringing them back, as a gift. People don't upload hundreds of shitty photographs onto their Facebooks for nothing; Kodak didn't get big because the Brownie was a specialty product. People like pictures.

And remember- the most important factor in whether a portrait turns out well, as has been stated, is empathy, or rather, how interested the photographer is in the subject. Not as "a cool shot," but as a genuine human being. Best portrait I've ever taken is of my best friend, while she was sitting next to me at a concert: 36mm equiv. lens, noisy as all get out, breaking all the rules for portraits.

As a response to your question, David Alan Harvey's blog (google his name) is great.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
David Alan Harvey's blog is win. Even more win is that he posts jpegs straight from his camera, so check out the EXIF for many lulz.

Pro-tip: he shot in Korea with a D200 and Aperture-priority, lol.
>> Anonymous
>>84960
And a zoom lens, which was a first or near-first for him. Somewhere in the comments on one of the relevent posts he talks about it.

I doubt the JPEGs are straight from his camera, though their EXIF is pretty thorough. I just can't imagine someone who does photography both as fine art and as a way of making a living sacrificing the advantages of raw.

You thinking of submitting to the thing he's started there, Heavyweather?
>> Anonymous
Oh, and OP, it turns out DAH just made a post on his blog today on this exact topic.

http://davidalanharvey.typepad.com/road_trip/2007/10/eye-contact.html#comments

Enjoy.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
>>84970
I wish, but I don't really have the time to start a major documentary project with any expectations of completing it. I'm a full time student and on the staff of our student-run 30,000 daily newspaper, so I've got my hands full right now. If I was in grad school or something, I think I could definitely have a shot at it.
>> Anonymous
AARON...
i do remember recommending some books for you...i am so pleased this has led to your continued work...so you are one of those "lurkers" !!! i am pleased to have you here, invisible or out here in the open..
keep smiling!!!
cheers, david
lulz were had
>> Anonymous
>>84974
You don't have a general thread or something in your work over the past few months? Or even just some rich event or something you have to/can shoot?

Honestly, you're too good a photographer for /p/ and deserve at least a shot at the professional attention and grant money.

>>84975
Harvey is literally at the very top of the photography world, and he runs a blog where he'll talk without any arrogance to the smallest noob that stumbles on it. He's a real mensch, not something to have "lulz" at.
>> Anonymous
op picture is cool

the contrast of the white cigarette smoke and black coal on the miners face
>> Anonymous
>>84983

FYI, it's shot by Steve McCurry.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
God damn, I'm so ridiculously hung over right now... last night I drank beers and smoked weed with my photo crew from the paper. One of the dudes, Joe, JUST got back from a workshop with David Alan Harvey... who is apparently a HUGE pothead. He smokes out with all the workshop people. It's awesome. He was pointing to various photos he's made, like from his hiphop project, and describing the various drugs he was on while making the photos. One he was apparently he shot at all, since he was on like 5 different drugs.

Dude is a HERO. I am not as hardcore, but I'm working up to it.
>> Anonymous
>>85177
i told u i was hardcore
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>>85177
Pot doesn't surprise at all, but much else does.

Oh, and Joe Buglewicz?

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>> Anonymous
>>85177He smokes out with all the workshop people.

Psh. Big deal.

Now, if he was on an assignment for National Geographic and took photos while fuckin' stoned, that would be fuck win.
>> Anonymous
>>85339
>He was pointing to various photos he's made, like from his hiphop project, and describing the various drugs he was on while making the photos.
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>>85177
I tried photography on drugs once. This was the end result. I swear that tree looked awesome in my head...

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>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
>>85180
Yeah, Joe is awesome. I'm totally in awe of several of his projects. There's this amazing series he did on wheelchair rugby that just blows my mind. Dude has SKILLZ.
>> Anonymous
>>85487
I've been checking the "Student Work" section to see if any of his stuff has been posted, but none yet.

What do you make of the work he's put up so far from that workshop? I like Young's and German's the best... Goudal's is interesting, but I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's well-shot, whatver story it's trying to tell.
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>>85495
so I was perusing Joe Buglewicz's photo blog and came across this and I figure with all of the mention of him in this thread you guys would know: Was this done with a special effects filter or was it done after the fact?
>> Anonymous
spin the camera while you take pic?
>> Anonymous
>>85519
no, I thought of that already, look at how spun everything else is except the subject...
>> Anonymous
>>85463
Its not bad but I mean, its the sun. The sun is awesome when your high.
>> Anonymous
>>85531
Spin the camera. But, and this is key, use flash and a long exposure.

The flash exposure lights up your subject and the duration of the flash is effectively the shutter speed for that part of it, so he's sharp. The flash isn't enough to light up the background, though. That comes from the long exposure, which is done while spinning the camera, so you get the spinny effect.

(This explains why the guy isn't perfectly sharp, which he would be if this was a 9000 HOURS OF MS PAINT situation)
>> Anonymous
>>85517
Ah, I was an idiot and didn't think of searching for "Joe Buglewicz."

You're right, Heavyweather: this guy is extremely good.