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Snow shoeing in Italy
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Eugene 2 great shots considering the conditions, I would have definitely had a lot more camera shake and it wouldn’t been the cold. have you any more. Love the foot prints in the first.
Soda
:D Thanks Soda
yeah have others but these are the only ones I was happy with. Never happy me!
Thats why I’m trying to improve my photo technique. Great site this and nice people!
I’m away to the Alps Sunday week for a big trip so I’m hoping to get some good shotsYep nice shots. This may not be easy, or even possible – but some expressions on the faces (grimaces showing the struggle of the climb or whatever) might make the pictures more engaging…? Just a thought, but I have no idea how difficult this would prove to be!
cheers,
beef.I really like these. Not something we see much of (if any) on these forums. So that is always a welcome start.
When I opened these I was immediately reminded of something I’d read recently in a book on Iconic Photos. Actually this was the second time this week, as the other was the Grand Prix de l’A.C.F shot by Jacques Henri Lartigue that Joseph posted on another thread.
The series of photographs this reminded me of was by another French Photographer by the name of Auguste Rosalie Bisson. The series was called Ascent of Mont Blanc and he took them 1862.
Granted this is probably a long way from snow shoeing in Italy, but from a photographic point of view not that different :wink:
The interesting thing to me is that you probably carried your camera in your backpack, but in 1862 they could only fantasize about something like that. Mr. Bisson had to ..well..actually his team of approximately 25 men…had to carry the camera equipment and mobile darkroom necessary to process the images he took, as he used a process called the Wet Collodion Process, which involved 18 seperate steps and which I wont even attempt to describe as I don’t have enough knowledge of it and I doubt you’d want to know anyway.
My rather long winded point being..how times have changed..what was in 1862 a major undertaking which most people at the time would have thought crazy is now a rather simple matter of a decent DSLR (or compact) tossed into a backpack as you leave the house.
I tried to find something online about Bisson, but there wasn’t a whole lot. Here’s a link to a copy of one of his shots from this shoot.
Anyway..sorry for that rambling post… I must be bored…. :wink:
Robbie
8)Thanks everyone for your time and effors :P
very informative and encouraging
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