What films inspire your work

MarkGerrardPhotography said

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I really can't see any connection. I really have no comprehension of the notion that a film has influenced my photography. My images just happen. I never think " Ooo, I must think about xxxx film" as I shoot. I can't see any correlation between the films you quote and the images you shoot. Just my opinion.

Couldn't agree more.  It's the same as saying inspired by Ansel Adams or whoever.  Nobody inspires me I just shoot for fun

I shoot for fun too…..but still I’m inspired by all the great photographers’ images I’ve seen - consciously or unconsciously.  Gunther Blum, Helmut Newton, John Everard, Sam Haskins…..not forgetting David Bailey et al. 

It's the same with films and their cinematographers/directors………though not as overtly geeky as @Huw I’m inspired (no doubt almost subliminally) by what see on screen: themes, colour saturation, composition, juxtaposition, framing, props, clothing and everything in-between from those films I noted…..and many others.

Carlos I have a visual memory, visual job….
   

I’ll recognise a picture I saw years ago. Or a microscope slide. Or a disease.

On the other hand, I’m “Face blind”. Won’t recognise someone I met and talked to the day before. Only recognise people by voice. Handy during Covid, when masks didn’t stop me recognising people.

Specialised vision, adds something, takes away something.

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Same way, I can tell Tri-x shots from HP5+ most of the time, although digital can now get very very close to either.

Thats what prodded me on Oppenheimer. 
I immediately thought “that looks like Tri-X on medium format”, and had to find out.

Carlos this is actually the best way I've seen it put, whether it's colour palette, depth of field, composition etc that's what inspires.

What the negative people don't seem to realise is that it's not about copying what you see, but what you take from it in your own head.

That or they have nothing exciting in their life and just have to shit on everything they see

If one stops learning, one is condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Sometimes painfully obvious here.

Huw said

ClickMore 📷 said

I really can't see any connection. I really have no comprehension of the notion that a film has influenced my photography. My images just happen. I never think " Ooo, I must think about xxxx film" as I shoot. I can't see any correlation between the films you quote and the images you shoot. Just my opinion.

Yet your profile says “I work very hard on ideas”?

Possibly a difference between word based learners and visual learners?

Not criticism, just interested in the process.

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Huw, my ideas come from me. They might be a vision that comes when I am doing something else. Others might come as I am shooting and I change tack to incorporate. I enjoy the cinematography of some films, "Rabbit Proof Fence" comes to mind but does that film influence my photography? I don't think so. I love David Bailey's classic 60s/70's photography but do I try and copy it? Absolutely not. It would lack the mood, the essence and be very flat and a poor imitation. I like the freedom to have my own ideas, the rapport between the subject and myself at that moment. If I try to compare my work with someone else's then it would probably affect the way I take images. 

Huw now I get it….just thought your detailed dive was amazing.

Im very visual too but in almost completely the opposite way to you.  I recognise faces and names….even when young or old.  Not quite a super recogniser but almost.  But couldn’t ‘see through or behind’ or dissect a piece of film or an image even if my life depended on it.

I also have a weird ‘tic’ on hearing.  I listen to podcasts when I do my constitutional daily.  Occasionally the current podcast will be interrupted in my head by the podcast I last listened to passing that particular place.  Very (literally) schizophrenic and disconcerting.

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Huw said

ClickMore 📷 said

I really can't see any connection. I really have no comprehension of the notion that a film has influenced my photography. My images just happen. I never think " Ooo, I must think about xxxx film" as I shoot. I can't see any correlation between the films you quote and the images you shoot. Just my opinion.

Yet your profile says “I work very hard on ideas”?

Possibly a difference between word based learners and visual learners?

Not criticism, just interested in the process.

Edited by Huw

Huw, my ideas come from me. They might be a vision that comes when I am doing something else. Others might come as I am shooting and I change tack to incorporate. I enjoy the cinematography of some films, "Rabbit Proof Fence" comes to mind but does that film influence my photography? I don't think so. I love David Bailey's classic 60s/70's photography but do I try and copy it? Absolutely not. It would lack the mood, the essence and be very flat and a poor imitation. I like the freedom to have my own ideas, the rapport between the subject and myself at that moment. If I try to compare my work with someone else's then it would probably affect the way I take images. 

Yep, I absolutely wasn’t criticising, just curious.  :)

I learn all the technical stuff, partly because the brain won’t shut up.

Never plan a shoot, just look and react to the light.
Probably a reaction to work, which is planned and documented in minute detail months ahead.

ClickMore 📷 I will often try to copy something as a learning exercise if I can’t work out how it was done.

Then it’s just another tool in the toolbox.

Been teaching myself video that way (and simplifying everything as I go along).

I put a fair bit of effort into finding the lazy way to do stuff.  ;)

Carlos said

Huw now I get it….just thought your detailed dive was amazing.

Im very visual too but in almost completely the opposite way to you.  I recognise faces and names….even when young or old.  Not quite a super recogniser but almost.  But couldn’t ‘see through or behind’ or dissect a piece of film or an image even if my life depended on it.

I also have a weird ‘tic’ on hearing.  I listen to podcasts when I do my constitutional daily.  Occasionally the current podcast will be interrupted in my head by the podcast I last listened to passing that particular place.  Very (literally) schizophrenic and disconcerting.

Hmmm….   What’s your reading speed like?

Mine is around 100 pages an hour when not hurrying (read a line at a time). A lot of us in the job are the same.

I can’t do podcasts, or have someone read aloud to me. Never could. Too slow, painful.

Brains are weird.

... and back on topic "Suicude Squad"

Huw said

Carlos said

Huw now I get it….just thought your detailed dive was amazing.

Im very visual too but in almost completely the opposite way to you.  I recognise faces and names….even when young or old.  Not quite a super recogniser but almost.  But couldn’t ‘see through or behind’ or dissect a piece of film or an image even if my life depended on it.

I also have a weird ‘tic’ on hearing.  I listen to podcasts when I do my constitutional daily.  Occasionally the current podcast will be interrupted in my head by the podcast I last listened to passing that particular place.  Very (literally) schizophrenic and disconcerting.

Hmmm….   What’s your reading speed like?

Mine is around 100 pages an hour when not hurrying (read a line at a time). A lot of us in the job are the same.

I can’t do podcasts, or have someone read aloud to me. Never could. Too slow, painful.

Brains are weird.

Nowhere near that speed but I go through 3-4 books a week, so must be reasonable.  Oddly enough my dyslexic son in grappling with learning (painfully) to read ended up as speed reader by accident effectively ‘scanning’ pages down the middle.
I find podcasts immersive.  I understand while you think them slow…..you want a shower……I wallow in a warm bath.

Brains are definitely weird.

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Sorry....  having been accused of faking a 5x4 shot yesgterday on the phone competition thread, just waiting for the same person to turn up here and explain how everybody sees exactly the same.

Hence the detail.    ;)

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