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James Cook
{K:38068} 5/11/2007
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We shall see what the future holds.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/11/2007
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Got that james. Yup. Similar allright. Forgot to add my own staid tripod bound moonlit pseudo luxo. http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1086715
My reply to an earlier reply crossed your reply as I organised it. We must both be awake but I'm logging off for a while now see ya!
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/11/2007
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This is my more staid and tripod bound thing that fits what I think is exciting about your luxography. Blurred impressionistic ponds have been done and aint revolutionary but still nice. With an old manual lens I could change both aperture and focus in this shot as well as waving the camera round.
I went to dance lessons once, no twice, and no one could tell me what to do with my feet unfortunately. Similarly I found your short manefesto a little hard to work through. I'd add to it a brief non technical statement of what it is. perhaps a better musical metaphor than dubbing would be in camera mixing. Or even in camera photoshopping and EVERYONE would know, but aint it unfair that photoshop tm has claimed ownership of what freeware gimp, for example can do.
Here was the t-shirt I was thinkin of.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 5/11/2007
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You have it exactly correct in saying that the in-camera aspect is the primary element upon which luxagraphy hinges. I now make a very big point of emphasizing that for each such photograph I post (and also calling them photographs and not images). Maybe Cameraside Luxagraphia or some such.
I have enjoyed Jude's motion work, especially with TV captures. Very different from the results I was getting using CRT light sources. Here is one example:
http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1130761
One of the exciting aspects about luxagraphia is that I am able to achieve results that are highly similar to what PS folks can do (after much layering and blending and so forth)--all with a single shutter click.
I also agree with what you say about sampling. Very much in line.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/11/2007
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It may be as good a term as any but the word lux has some extra physical connotations.
You've seen Judes stuff here. It has similarities. What freaked me about her stuff was the blinking tv set strobes, it underlined the time aspect. photos of sculptures in the fourth dimension. Whatever narratives had been there on the telly were turned into changing textures on the skin of an alien or whatever.
What I can identify that I like is a similarity to cubism with the shifting perspective but also that it is photoshop layering crossed with modern dj-ing or old music concrete except one commits o taking ones samples from the moment. Nicks stuff lately is samples from his visit but is photoshop dependant to glue those layers together so it not so liberated.
I remember it took me a long time to use fully manual controls with my canon a80. I was entertaining a dog in my front yard, she was not a fussy client but I hesitated to be do it! What proportion of the planets digicams have never tried "M"?
There is so much to learn and cool images to be gained from both planned and spontaneous luxography. It may be just what people need to start to begn to sample their environment in-camera.
Your tai chi instructions are probably useful and give people a how without controlling their what. I can see how gaining those concepts can be useful to remember when waving ons arms around or flicking the wrist with ones cam... BUT Your images first, then your statement that it was all in camera seems the vital part.
What about "in-camera dub" as a slogan? Someone may get a gist of what your on about from that.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/10/2007
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May need a James cook t-shirt first.
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James Cook
{K:38068} 5/10/2007
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Yeah, I made it up. Photography was already taken. Maybe it's not the best name, but it's what I came up with at the time. I've been doing this kind of work for, what?, twenty years. I came up with this name when I started posting on-line (a little more than a year ago).
Joing my movement!
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/10/2007
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Is it YOURS James? I thought it was from some manefesto somewheres!
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James Cook
{K:38068} 5/10/2007
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Roger - In my conversation with Nick I described the four possible camera motions which could be employed in luxagraphic shots (especially in combination). This is how I broke it down:
1. Parallax--motion along a single plane parallel to the plane of focus (that plane which defines the center of the DoF).
2. Rotation--spinning the camera on axis perpendicular to the photographic plate.
3. Zoom--using a zoom lens or simple moving the camera toward or away from the subject in line with the above mentioned perpendicular.
4. Pan--basically rotating the snout of the camera as though mounted to a tripod (for instance)
This linear motion would be paralactic (according to the above definition) assuming the car was travelling in a strait line. Perhaps not the best term so I'll keep working to think of another.
Ian - Here is the full discussion:
http://www.usefilm.com/image.asp?id=1292241
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/10/2007
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Not averse to the process as I understand it with grudging interest, but the term, hmmm I feel weird about.
Maybe impressionists felt the same way about their tag.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/10/2007
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Interesting franchise this luxagraphic (tm).
I'm averse to it I mean. Still it might represent something that has developed as digital frees up the image, and any punk with a digicam can start to explore the long exposure without having to waste millions at the chemist to wait for the results.
I may google it one day.
Baha did a series of phots as a portrait today. That's the kind of thing I've thought could come into vogue with digital too. It was expensive before but now cheap as chips to do a zillion shots of a friend and then collect a few together.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/10/2007
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Thankyou for your eye Baha. I am enjoying your always always fresh way of presenting things. The shadow of the car window could have added some abrupt and dramatic context for this shot in hand with the soft rain drops if it had been bigger... the image may have been more interesting I think had I framed it black.
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 5/10/2007
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umm is Tosh bordering on luxagraphic shooting laterally rather than circularly?
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 5/10/2007
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extraordinairly beautiful stuff almost luxagraphic?
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James Cook
{K:38068} 5/9/2007
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Cool. Good luck with the your idea.
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Mahmoud Baha Sadri
{K:19634} 5/9/2007
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a very nice abstract landscape, I especially like its top right hand corner...baha
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 5/9/2007
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See?
These are on the Thames Estuary. Cool huh? A radio station broadcast there for a period.
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