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Post by snackbugs »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #42
snackbugs wrote: post #16

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I don't know how to ask this without it seeming dismissive, but how much more difficult is it to live your normal life by someone's use of this word?

You are asking why sticks and stones break bones, but why should words hurt?

I'm asking because when someone says they are offended by someone else's words, it's because the use of that word makes their daily normal life more difficult to live in a direct material sense. That's the measure being defined when someone says "I'm offended". It's a matter of material conditions.

Slurs are used by people who have structural power in society, directed at those who do not. It's punching down, not punching across or up. That's what is meant by taking offense to someone's words.

Forgive me If I question whether or not a man, which is quite a privileged identity, is truly being punched down upon from someone more powerful by the word "creepshot".

Re: Snapshots of Tokyo’s vivid street life

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Post by closeparen »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #39
closeparen wrote: post #28

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US cities are a mess because middle class families abandoned them for the newly built suburbs in a coordinated, subsidized, and regulated movement. Individual families were not expected to walk out into the fields and personally make them habitable. They certainly weren’t turned away by policies designed to preserve the status quo, compensate/empower those adversely affected by a proposed change, etc. Highway constru…

We’re funding mass transit at a fraction of the rate necessary, and I don’t see that changing - along as governments are considered incompetent and taxes are considered evil.

That can’t really be the philosophy - even red states love their highways.

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Post by volkisch »

tokyodude wrote: post #72
rococode wrote: post #29

Somewhat related: One of my favorite Youtube channels is Rambalac. It's just videos of walking through various places in Japan, from crowded streets to peaceful natural areas. No voiceover or explanations - almost every video is as if a video camera were moving around on its own and recording everything it saw (occasionally he interacts with things). Super relaxing to have on in the background, and really cool to wat…

It will be interesting to see if TPTB allow Shibuya Halloween next year. This year a truck was turned over by the crowd and there was a fire.

Care to expand on this about what happened?

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Post by pcurve »

novia wrote: post #75
pcurve wrote: post #21

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I actually found this view point interesting. If you wouldn't mind elaborating on why you feel that way, I think it would be productive. Because it never even occured to me that these photos could be perceived that way by someone.

My definition of creepshot is a photo taken of someone without their knowledge. The photographer may have gone back to get consent from the people photographed after the fact, but I found no mention of it in the article. The only mention of the photographs being taken secretly is in the title, and that's where I'm drawing my conclusions from. I have lived in Japan. While I was there, there was a law that cellphones h…

Thank you for the response. Very much appreciated. I understand your reasoning 100%.

These pictures look like they're at least 25 years old.. pretty much before internet and digital camera.

I think people may have felt more comfortable with photographer taking picture back then... I'm guessing.

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Post by q-base »

piffey wrote: post #73
q-base wrote: post #40

I really like the photo-documentary style. If anyone else has links to similar style blogs/websites I would be very interested.

You'll want to look into any of the street documentary greats: * Garry Winogrand - NYC/LA/Texas, considered by many to be the best. * Lee Friedlander - From Aberdeen, WA, but really shot everywhere. * Anthony Hernandez - Modern, still working, has moved on to larger formats of environments. * Joel Meyerowitz - Modern, still working, has moved on to still lifes in Tuscany, but still teaches. Pioneered a lot of early c…

Wow - thank you very, very much!

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Post by rambalac »

askl wrote: post #51
dawidw wrote: post #46

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By any chance, do you know what kind of camera Rambalac uses?

It says "Filmed in UltraHD 4K with Lumix GH4 camera, 7-14 f4 lene and Beholder DS-1 stabilizer." in the video description.

That's some old video, now I use GH5 and Mavic 2 Pro

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Post by novia »

pcurve wrote: post #85
novia wrote: post #75

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My definition of creepshot is a photo taken of someone without their knowledge. The photographer may have gone back to get consent from the people photographed after the fact, but I found no mention of it in the article. The only mention of the photographs being taken secretly is in the title, and that's where I'm drawing my conclusions from. I have lived in Japan. While I was there, there was a law that cellphones h…

Thank you for the response. Very much appreciated. I understand your reasoning 100%. These pictures look like they're at least 25 years old.. pretty much before internet and digital camera. I think people may have felt more comfortable with photographer taking picture back then... I'm guessing.

"The images you see here were all taken between 1996 and 2009"

9-22 years old. some of them were well within the internet era.

I looked up more info on the shutter sound accompanying photographs taken on smartphones. This has been in effect since 2001. But I was wrong about it being a law. It looks like all the cell phone carriers in Japan self-regulated and made it a requirement themselves.

source: https://theuijunkie.com/japan-camera-sound/

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Post by rangibaby »

grecht wrote: post #33
rangibaby wrote: post #31

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Super cool results. I enjoy zone focusing with an Industar 50-2 on my Spotmatic. Actually, that is really the only way to enjoy using that lens because it has a fully manual, one-ring iris – on an SLR lens! Stopped down to about f/8 it was pretty easy to focus by the scale only. I did check my composition in the viewfinder, but that was about it. I'll try shooting without using the viewfinder at all next time. Shutte…

Thank you! I love Spotmatics! Sadly, the ones I inherited have light leaks. If you're not going to use the viewfinder, it'd probably be a lot easier to use something wider than 50mm. Besides the greater depth of field making zone-focusing a lot easier, there's literally "more room" for error in your (somewhat accidental) framing. Makes things easier. But I might be biased here, as 35mm is my favorite focal length on…

I prefer 35 for general shooting and 50-58 for taking pictures of people. I have one 40mm and it is a nice compromise. I’m going to try some viewfinderless shooting with my Spotmatic today - watch this space ;-)

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Post by Breza »

rococode wrote: post #29

Somewhat related: One of my favorite Youtube channels is Rambalac. It's just videos of walking through various places in Japan, from crowded streets to peaceful natural areas. No voiceover or explanations - almost every video is as if a video camera were moving around on its own and recording everything it saw (occasionally he interacts with things). Super relaxing to have on in the background, and really cool to wat…

This is a really interesting channel, thanks for sharing it!
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