at MOCA LA

[Bo_Lorentzen]

at the Robert Frank - the Americans exhibit this afternoon. Noticed this young man engrossed in the images. I gotta stop bringing a M with me.



Also I noticed the statistic on the wall, he photographed about 680 rolls of images, printed 1000 of them, that is about 1.5 images per roll, and out of those he picked 80.. (that is about 8.5 rolls for each image he published, for the ones among us slow on the calculations I can tell you that is about 1 print for every 300 exposures.... Clearly I need to stop fretting about not being able to find one picture I love on each and every roll of negative I pull out of the camera.

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[roguewave]

Bo is this with the new 50? I like everything about this image. Did you hook him up with the forum?

[Bo_Lorentzen]

Hello Ben,

Yes thats the CV 50mm 1.1 wide open at 1/60th iso 160

Im really kind of pleased with the lens, it is rather soft but I like how the images come out.

Ehhh, no I did not hook him up, he was with a crowd of a very young photographers most equipped with one or another type of camera, among them one M6 and a film SLR. besides, he is the web generation much more than I am... I can't imagine he have not been by here already.

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[stuny]

Bo -

Excellent for moment, composition, light, color, detail and brand of camera he is carrying.

[Bo_Lorentzen]

Thank you Stuart,

Not only do the young man have great taste in cameras, he also have a 21mm mounted on there. (yes the lens is sharp)

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[pauledell]

Bo,

Excellent. Great color and sharpness. Perfect focus.

Paul

[thompsonkirk]

Nice photo, nice lens: I can almost read the engraving on the lens barrel - & can see his skin problems in fine detail.

I like what you say about low contrast: I find it much easier to improve a low-contrast image than to tame a high-contrast one.

As you've presented it, the image isn't flat at all.

Kirk

[photophile]

Bo - nice capture. It is interesting to see an image of an image as seen by an image maker...by an image maker. ( ok its late but it makes sense). technically and aesthetically well done by the way. Best. Coos

[allamande]

Bo, this lens is doing great in your hands. Wonderful image.

Your comments on the shooting data are quite interesting. There is at least one "lurking" variable to consider, when you think about this ratio. When you look at the numbers in total, a piece of the puzzle gets hidden.

In the SF show, there is some discussion about how he used to shoot many more frames of a given scene, when he did not have the Guggenheim funding yet. Because he was trying to cater (at least in part) to commercial interests, he was trying out different approaches in any given scene, to make it more "marketable." And, you can see this in the contact sheets. After he got funding, he has far fewer shots of a scene, but he was shooting many more scenes (most of which didn't make it into the book). The curators suggest that he knew exactly what he wanted out of a scene and once he got his funding for the project, he didn't need to worry about "selling it" anymore, and therefore the fewer shots per scene. And, indeed, you see this shift in the contact sheets that are part of the show.

Ece

[jackart]

I really like this image

Jaak

[George James]

Super capture. Well done.

George

[vdb]

This is excellent in many ways: superb clarity,sharpness,colors and detail within a wonderfully composed moment.

[Bo_Lorentzen]

Thank you everybody, so much for all the kind words.

Ben, I did run into the young man on RFF.

Paul, Thank you.

Kirk, Thank you, yes agree, one can always add a bit of contrast to a flat image. seems to work pretty well for Digital.

Coos, LOL. thank you, seriously, don't ask me to say that 3 times fast.

Ece, Nooo, now I have to go to SF for the full show... interesting how he changed his approach. but to some degree I figure that translates pretty closely to what we do now a days anyway. as Im sure most shooters work a subject with a few frames. I got 3 of this young man.

Jaak, Thank you.

George, Thank you sir.

Thank you vdb, for the very kind words.

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[Mystic]

Originally Posted by stuny

Bo -

Excellent for moment, composition, light, color, detail and brand of camera he is carrying.

Indeed.

[epand56]

Bo, beautiful composition and selective focus.
This picture really shows what this new 50 can do.
And is not at all soft, IMO, you can almost count any pimple on this young photographer's face...

[azzo]

Bo,

Lovely capture with awesome shallow DOF.
I bet, it would just as nice in b&w.