Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Hannah was cleaning a few eggs from our hens in the kitchen this morning, i thought it best to document this event along with its spectators
Hannah, Connie, my Dogs, and a few Eggs
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Brian Moore
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Nice documentary of the domestic activities. I especially like #5.
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Cheers Brian!
This has always been my favorite sort of photography!
My Facebook is rammed full of this sort of this from a few years back of mates at my place, in pubs etc ...but for some reason I seem to do it less these days...I said to Hannah today that I'm going to start doing more of it I think! Especially now I have a littlun!
It's why I enjoy weddings so much I think, photos of people and people's lives, for me at least, are just more interesting!
This has always been my favorite sort of photography!
My Facebook is rammed full of this sort of this from a few years back of mates at my place, in pubs etc ...but for some reason I seem to do it less these days...I said to Hannah today that I'm going to start doing more of it I think! Especially now I have a littlun!
It's why I enjoy weddings so much I think, photos of people and people's lives, for me at least, are just more interesting!
adrian jordin
Well-Known Member
I'm just impressed that you can hang around in the Kitchen taking photos while your wife is doing the work...
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
She's come to expect it Adrian 
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
Great minds think alike Hamish - was shooting dinner in the kitchen tonight!
Very nice
Very nice
Glen Roberts
Well-Known Member
I know people in the States like guns but is that not going a bit far??? I usually eat mine
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Pete Askew
Admin
I really, really like this sequence Hamish. What a great record of everyday events: Hannah, the dogs , Connie, the buckets on the side - wonderful. PP is just right and the expressions on the 'faces' of the dogs is just great. Love them.
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Cheers Pete!
Glad you like em, still tinkering with getting my Lightroom monos better... I'm much happier than I was with them!
The dogs are loads of fun to photograph... It's silly really, someone once said to me that Photos of pets are too homely to be any real good... Although I disagree, it stuck with me... Daft really!
Glad you like em, still tinkering with getting my Lightroom monos better... I'm much happier than I was with them!
The dogs are loads of fun to photograph... It's silly really, someone once said to me that Photos of pets are too homely to be any real good... Although I disagree, it stuck with me... Daft really!
Pete Askew
Admin
They obvioulsy hadn't seen the work of Elliot Erwitt then! What did you shoot them on?
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Haha, yes I guess they hadn't ...
D3 and 24-70
Somewhat inspired by Chris's shot with his 24mm and surrounding convos ... Although admittedly, mine isnt a prime...
D3 and 24-70
Somewhat inspired by Chris's shot with his 24mm and surrounding convos ... Although admittedly, mine isnt a prime...
Paul Lange
Moderator
In light of the discussion of the photograph of the river photo I post this with fear of repostes such as "Dont tell me what this photo is about, its a dog for ****s sake", "Comment on modern British society, Balls" etc. 
. OK I know people on here aren't like that really.
Have a look at Dan's post here http://www.realphotographersforum.com/people-portraits/2895-kids-cameras.html
Does anyone think it is interesting that Hamish has photographed his dogs with the same sentiment. Please lets not be flippant and say things like am I trying to say that the subjects look alike or anything like that.
What does that say? I would say that that it is clear that the dogs are part of the family unit and as far is allowed from a practical point given equal respect and love.
In a way they could be a piece of fine art or something leading up to it if that idea was explored further. Sorry to bring the river photo into this thread but really that photo is the result of an idea explored for several years.
Anyone?? just me??
. OK I know people on here aren't like that really.Have a look at Dan's post here http://www.realphotographersforum.com/people-portraits/2895-kids-cameras.html
Does anyone think it is interesting that Hamish has photographed his dogs with the same sentiment. Please lets not be flippant and say things like am I trying to say that the subjects look alike or anything like that.
What does that say? I would say that that it is clear that the dogs are part of the family unit and as far is allowed from a practical point given equal respect and love.
In a way they could be a piece of fine art or something leading up to it if that idea was explored further. Sorry to bring the river photo into this thread but really that photo is the result of an idea explored for several years.
Anyone?? just me??
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
This is photojournalism though Paul, it's a very different genre of image...
Not wanting to sound conceited, but there is a lot more to look at in my photos than that river picture...
Anyone caring to spend a moment looking at these could ask loads of questions...
I hoped to capture somthing that makes people aware of the feeling in the room at the time...
The family feeling etc
It's a lot more tangible than a contrived concept!
And for me at least, these photos are worth way more than 2.4million...
This is what photography is about for me ... As Bresson calls is "desisive moment" photography ... That after all is the beauty of out chosen art form... It captures moments, often fleeting ones, in our lives!
The concept explored in that river shot could be explored in any number of mediums .. I could make a clay pot then sand it down until it was really smooth and dull on one side and leave the other side rough yet full of character and attach a similar concept to it!
I'm not saying don't use photography for conceptual art, I was facinates by your ideas of exploring framing within frames ... I'm just saying there is a broad difference between photography and photography as part of a "concept"
I'm not sure I'm really answering your comment here, or just agreeing with you??
I guess I'm just tryin to say there is no "concept" in photojournalism ... Other than the fact that it is what it is ... It is supposed to make the viewer ask questions... Or at very least feel some connection to the content ...
Of course it can be analyised, andesite a bit of time spent looking at it you can probably learn as much about me as you can the subject matter...
One way or another, that is much more of a deep interest to me than some flippant, and fairly obvious comment on society ... And I'm not just saying that because they are my photos, I get much more out of looking at other people images that are like this than I get out of images of a river with some trees (or whatever) photoshopped out ...
The river shot, however long the idea has been explored for etc is just not a big enough or deep enough concept for me to get into!
It's like crating an image that somehow depicts the corruption I politicians, just like I know, and am really past caring that politicians are corrupt ... I know and am past caring that we live in a society that doesn't see that striving for perfection is ultimately damaging ... I'm so aware of these facts that I'm bored of them ... And I guess that's why that image, despite it's meaning now being apparent to me, is still boring!
Not wanting to sound conceited, but there is a lot more to look at in my photos than that river picture...
Anyone caring to spend a moment looking at these could ask loads of questions...
I hoped to capture somthing that makes people aware of the feeling in the room at the time...
The family feeling etc
It's a lot more tangible than a contrived concept!
And for me at least, these photos are worth way more than 2.4million...
This is what photography is about for me ... As Bresson calls is "desisive moment" photography ... That after all is the beauty of out chosen art form... It captures moments, often fleeting ones, in our lives!
The concept explored in that river shot could be explored in any number of mediums .. I could make a clay pot then sand it down until it was really smooth and dull on one side and leave the other side rough yet full of character and attach a similar concept to it!
I'm not saying don't use photography for conceptual art, I was facinates by your ideas of exploring framing within frames ... I'm just saying there is a broad difference between photography and photography as part of a "concept"
I'm not sure I'm really answering your comment here, or just agreeing with you??
I guess I'm just tryin to say there is no "concept" in photojournalism ... Other than the fact that it is what it is ... It is supposed to make the viewer ask questions... Or at very least feel some connection to the content ...
Of course it can be analyised, andesite a bit of time spent looking at it you can probably learn as much about me as you can the subject matter...
One way or another, that is much more of a deep interest to me than some flippant, and fairly obvious comment on society ... And I'm not just saying that because they are my photos, I get much more out of looking at other people images that are like this than I get out of images of a river with some trees (or whatever) photoshopped out ...
The river shot, however long the idea has been explored for etc is just not a big enough or deep enough concept for me to get into!
It's like crating an image that somehow depicts the corruption I politicians, just like I know, and am really past caring that politicians are corrupt ... I know and am past caring that we live in a society that doesn't see that striving for perfection is ultimately damaging ... I'm so aware of these facts that I'm bored of them ... And I guess that's why that image, despite it's meaning now being apparent to me, is still boring!
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Paul Lange
Moderator
I agree with what you have said about these being of different genre, I was striking a parallel that hopefully others could understand. You have something to say and you say it through a photojournalistic method. You could have written about it but instead you communicate it through images. From that point of view it is not to different. FTR I believe what you have to say is far more honest and relevant to me personally. I like honesty in work, it keeps it grounded. In uni tutors would often say things like "thats an honest painting" They would say that because they could not be honest and say "There is just not enough ******** in that painting for it to be up to our elitist ideas".
Sorry to drift the thread off a bit it was just that I saw your photo's went far beyond just the visual element and behind them there was a narrative and a context that I hoped others would see and draw a parallel.
