Trey Ratcliff (again)

This guy makes me sick with jealousy! His photographs are so good and it gets to travel all around the world!

MAC vs. PC

Thought this was quite amusing.
So...
which is it to be?

Henri Cartier-Bresson

"For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in a face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

To take a photograph means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second– both the fact itself and the rigorous organisation of visually perceived forms that give it meaning.

It is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis."

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a french photographer. He is known for his candid style photographs. He is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism and helped develop the 'street photography' style.

He achieved his intimate photographs by wrapping black tape around his camera and hiding his camera with his handkerchief and pretending to blow his nose.

He also used fast black and white films and sharp lenses so he was able to photograph almost by stealth to capture the events.

I'm particularly interested in his work as I am looking at candid photography for my dissertation, investigating whether you can ever have a truly natural photograph.

The Mighty Boosh

The Lynx Effect, you never know when

This is quite an old advert for Lynx and I was reminded of it the other day when I went to the Media Museum in Bradford. It shows a couple lying in bed and going around the city picking up their clothes and putting them back on, as if they are going back on a journey they have just taken. The ad ends with the couple back where they started, meeting in a supermarket.

I think this advert is nicely presented and it helps that the couple are both truly gorgeous people. I've decided to include this in my blog as I feel it is a gentle, clever way to express the idea of the 'Lynx Effect'. Subtle.

More Trey Ratcliff Photographs

Thought I would just include some more photographs by Trey Ratcliff. I am particularly interested in how people are presented in photographs and how they react to the camera as this is what my dissertation and independent project is related to.

I love how Ratcliff has captured the character of these people and the high dynamic range style has created depth and detail as if we were looking directly at these people.

Coca Cola, Holidays are Coming

It loathes me to write about coca cola in a favorable light, but they're TV commercials (and their innovative bottle design of last year) are sometimes quite something.

Christmas is coming, well according to the advertising world it is, and already we are seeing awful Argos ads with "I wish it could be Christmas everyday" playing in the background. The question is, when will we see that famous Coca-cola advert, 'Holidays Are Coming'. That advert from that corporate brand that makes us feel all warm and fluffy and tells us Christmas is on it's way... strange really.