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Self Portrait
Image Title:  Self Portrait
 
 By: Peat Bakke  
  Copyright ©2001



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Photographer Peat Bakke {K:250}
Project N/A Camera Model Graflex 22
Categories Film Format
Portfolio Lens 75mm f/3.5
Uploaded 10/26/2001 Film / Memory Type Delta 3200
    ISO / Film Speed 0
Views 919 Shutter 1/10th
Favorites Aperture f/22
Critiques 6 Rating Critique Only Image
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Bakke


A Liz.  A Pipe.  A Camera.

Surrounded

Grinder

untitled

Sidewalk

Wood Bench

Shoes

Room Mate I

Skate Wheel

Library Tree

There are 6 Comments in 1 Pages
  1
Chris Hayward   {K:1519} 10/27/2001
Pete - I've looked at this one several times now (so it
does stand out from the crowd in that manner), but after
some consideration, I can't make an interesting image out of it. It just doesn't work for me. Part of it may be
that this is what things look like before I put my glasses
on anyway, so its not new to me.

What was your objective here?


Peat Bakke   {K:250} 10/27/2001
I spend a lot of time assisting on commercial shoots, and I wanted to burn some film without metering, focusing, or even really thinking twice about what I was shooting. I was feeling a bit frusterated with the assumption that photographs have to be structured and precise to be "good." So, I shot through a couple rolls of film and I liked a few of the pictures - but I don't particularly know why, and it would be silly to put some sort of deep meaning behind it all ...


David Goldfarb   {K:7611} 5/31/2003
Julia Margaret Cameron, in the age of soft focus, was criticized for her focus or lack thereof, and she responded by asking, "Who is to decide where the focus is?" The idea that there is a single point of focus may be true in some physical sense, but there is no truth to be had about this in the aesthetic sense. Indeed, in the days of soft focus lenses, different photographers might not agree on where the best looking focus was for the same image, and the instructions for these lenses spoke in terms of "firmness" and "softness," rather than of a single point of sharpest focus.

Even today, you can buy a Linhof selected Rodenstock Imagon, but they won't make a rangefinder cam for it, because the point of focus for any given subject distance is subjective.

I like this kind of experimentation in this image, and I think it works here.


al al   {K:2} 6/24/2003
code test - ignore me - code te


Peat Bakke   {K:250} 6/27/2003
Just another test of the system. Woot.


Peat Bakke   {K:250} 6/27/2003
test comment 1 2 3.


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