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Am I missing something?A BBC item on a little known Welsh location

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Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 13th, 2016 02:46

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Reading the news this morning on the BBC website I noticed an item on photography in a little known Welsh location.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-37034154

The photographer has used very out of date film and under/over exposed intentionally to create 'artistic' effects. Not only that but he has also run films through the camera twice??? Just to get 'effects'...

I think most of us here try to get faithful colours, in sharp images with nice saturation and definition free of colour casts and fuzziness in the subject.

Having looked though the images presented in the BBC item I don't think one would have survived my initial cull on inspecting my freshly exposed photographs.

Just because the BBC publicises the photographer and presents this as art, does it make these (in my view) crappy images acceptable? It may raise awareness of the location, so perhaps some proper, nice images could be made, but why could the photographer not have done a less controversial job himself? I accept less sharp, 'dreamy' images can be nice, but this seems to me to be intentionally sub standard. Should it be encouraged by national coverage? Malcolm's efforts with his steampunks are far better than this in my view?

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Posted by jk: Sat Aug 13th, 2016 03:08

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I think the BBC have got a set of the Emperors new clothes!
No more than I would have expected when I had my Pocket Instamatic!!

Unimpressed.

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Posted by Eric: Sat Aug 13th, 2016 06:12

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I just forwarded this image to BBC Wales.

It's a new way of expressing the spontaneity photography can bring to visualising the ethereal nature of working at the BBC.

I called it 'leave the lens cap on'.

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Posted by jk: Sat Aug 13th, 2016 09:14

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Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 13th, 2016 15:48

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Eric wrote:
I just forwarded this image to BBC Wales.

Brilliant!

:lol:

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Posted by Graham Whistler: Sat Aug 13th, 2016 18:37

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Sad set of pixs!

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Posted by jk: Sun Aug 14th, 2016 02:45

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Yes it is the triumph of crass over quality!

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Posted by highlander: Sun Aug 14th, 2016 04:50

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I went through a whole bunch of my macro photos shot yesterday and although some were artistic and I loved the composition and the shallow depth of field (it's a project I'm working on), I deleted a whole bunch because they weren't just sharp enough. Even with very shallow depth of field you need something sharp surely (and I need my eyes testing because my manual focus is crap). Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps I am a vulgar realist as my lecturer said...

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Posted by Bob Bowen: Sun Aug 14th, 2016 05:13

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To coin a phrase 'What a load of Castel Coch'

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Posted by Eric: Sun Aug 14th, 2016 07:00

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Bob Bowen wrote:
To coin a phrase 'What a load of Castel Coch'
I didn't realise you spoke Welsh, Bob!
:lol:

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