civilized ku # 2096-97 ~ night skating

Night skating / 1980 Olympic Speed Skating Oval ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Birch tree / 1980 Olympic Speed Skating Oval ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenOn the same night I drove into Lake Placid for a hockey game (civilized ku # 2087-91) I made these 2 Juha Haataja-like night pictures.

Update on Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 01:19PM by gravitas et nugalis

Featured Comment: Sven W asked: "... if it were possible to write a "recipe" for a Hobson image and a Haataja image, what would the recipes look like?

Juha Haataja's response: ... I don't know of any particular recipe. I shoot straight jpegs (no RAW) and usually I don't do post-processing. I often underexpose a bit, but that is the way I see the world.

my response: I don't know of any particular recipe. I shoot straight RAW (no jepgs) and usually do a fair amount of post-processing. Although, recipe and presentation speaking, my pictures will always have a black edge - an homage to the film-based printing era - and corner vignetting, but that is the way I see the world.

Comments

[Sven W]

Ha! I follow your blog and also Juha's. I saw the two images here and thought to myself "they look a bit familiar".

I think Juha might have borrowed a couple ideas from you e.g square format (not sure though).

But here's a more general question: if it were possible to write a "recipe" for a Hobson image and a Haataja image, what would the recipes look like?

[Juha Haataja]

Indeed, I followed Mark's blog for some time until I grow into appreciation of the square format. He is definitely my inspiration.

But it wasn't until the Panasonic LX3 got the ability to take square photographs (and see them on the LCD) when I started to experiment with it.

Slowly I realized that the square fits my way of looking at the world. Maybe I always have been a bit squarish.

I don't know of any particular recipe. I shoot straight jpegs (no RAW) and usually I don't do post-processing. I often underexpose a bit, but that is the way I see the world.

By the way, my mother had a 6x6/120 film camera, and was quite skilled with it. It may be that I learned to appreciate square photographs when looking at the family photographs when I was young.

[Sven W]

Thanks guys ... when I used the word "recipe" I really meant to say "composition / mindset".

For example, you both [seem to] compose in the square format, more than the rectangular formats.FWIW, I shoot in 4:3 format then sometimes crop to 16:9 or 1:1 (if it works better for the image). Never use 3:2.

Juha made an interesting comment: "I often underexpose a bit". Mark, is this something you picked up on and then adjusted your images accordingly?

It's also interesting the Juha gets his "look" with jpegs SOOC whereas Mark applied post-processing.

I guess where I'm going with all this is the notion of deliberating copying another photographer's "style". If done wisely it's probably a good way to learn a few things about the art of photography.