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A thousand pictures

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Defection: Apologies to SY and GR


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I'm not one to do something without any reason. I may have, in the past, asked many of you to edit your photos before showing them to me [my time is precious, but I really do want to see your photos!], but this time, I am about to step into hypocrisy, or so it seems.

These are all thirty-six exposures from one roll of film, shot entirely in China during my recent travels. They are presented from the first exposure to the last exposure taken in chronological order.

I will now complain of my lack of skills in formatting images for websites, so I will say, this is very basic, and I am working on a way to make this look good. Otherwise, it will just look like a bunch of thumbnails for my images [as it does now], rather than a coherent whole [as it should].

Patience. I'll try not to play around with this set too much - I want to have a record of its progression, hopefully, to better aesthetics.

Does this sound familiar?

Tell me what you see. Pretty please.

I won't ask you to edit your photos ever again.

3 Comments:

At 08 March, 2006 01:35, Blogger Lin said...

Hey Martin,
I don't like it when I click on a thumbnail and it directs me to the Flickr website, which takes awhile to load...and has all this distracting stuff around the photo. After 2 or 3 clicks, I can't really be bothered anymore, although the photos look interesting. Maybe that's just me...
How bout just normal blog photo posting (like on my site) whereby u click on a photo and a larger version pops up...?
I dunno...after the simplicity and beauty of the large one-by-one shots in your previous posts, this just seems rather slutty.... :)

 

At 08 March, 2006 01:41, Blogger Lin said...

As for looking like a coherant whole, I tried looking for something...and I saw a bit of a storyboard here and there, and I tried again and saw a pattern here and there... but in the end, I don't think I got the point - trying so hard and all....

 

At 17 March, 2006 21:56, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't think there was an actual point to the photos in terms of subject matter. This was an experiment in seriality. I hadn't shown any images from this roll of film. That was somewhat important - this roll was less interesting than the other five rolls. There are only a few that I might consider singling out as individual images, but what would happen if I just showed them all? Warts and all...

I've said 'A thousand pictures'. That is there two days of my life. Two days in the space of about one second - the combined shutter speed of all thirty-six exposures. It could also be the time it takes you to read the layout of all thirty-six thumbnails [okay, it takes a bit longer than that... maybe just a cursory glance takes one second].

 

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