Before getting discouraged about your own photography, don't forget these 116 or 300 images for his books are the best taken from hundreds of thousands over many years. His shooting ratio will be massive. The more you take, the luckier you'll get
What it takes to get a good body of work are thousands of hours of photography. Hard, consistent and thorough work.This way you also increase the amount of "keepers" you get. Of course in part, it is luck, but in photography you do make your own luck. Just as with any craft, dedication and effort go a very long way.
This street photography is everything that is missing from photographers today. They are not random chance images, like take out afterthoughts from a fast motor driven series. They are well considered and prepared for, a developed skill !!
I’ve always thought the photos i shoot now may seem ordinary but in 10 20 years plus they’ll be a good record of this time. I look back at pictures I shot years ago and it absolutely is the passing of time which makes a good image a damn good image. Enjoyed that video cheers
Some great shots here. I enjoyed the whole session and shooting in New York is a whole different ball game from shooting in North Carolina! I need to look for more of Richard Herman videos.Thanks!
Marvellous talk from a talented and humble man with a wonderfull history. I had to laugh at the irony of the horrible lighting on him though. What were they thinking?
Curious to intersect two of the audience topics: posterity and permission. How would we view photographs of the 50s if they never depicted children? Or depictions of cities if certain races or sexes were denied? Do the subjects have the right to refuse inclusion? What are the ethics of a parent in public refusing candid photography with their children? It's presumptuous and very narrow-minded to frame the ethics in terms of the subjects only; what of the future witness? It could be viewed in a thousand years. I recently saw photographs of Hemingway as a child dressed in a dress. This was common for boys of that era (although his mother insisted upon continuing the practice long enough for him to become deeply resentful). Would we even know if boys dressed this way without recordings? We carry so many assumptions and stereotypes of other times and places which records can dispel. Negotiation, and reading people and scenes is integral to civic life. Whereas dogma denies the will and presence of mind; it may have a place, of course, just as limitations can give the tension required to create work. If dogma were to replace discretion and connexion we would be lost.
..Richard Sandler may know about photogrpahy but certainly not about the ethics of Zen…."Good street photography is a very Zen act, a very Zen art....an end run around the mind… if I want to take a picture I'll take it…." No, Richard, Zen is not doing whatever you want when you want it.
I believe he's saying in the frame of that it's more about completely focusing on the moment, finding the picture, making it yours (as in your vision/signature), which is the only thing that matters if you're out there with the intent of creating a body of work. It's about focus, not about ethics and monk-like behavior.
Before getting discouraged about your own photography, don't forget these 116 or 300 images for his books are the best taken from hundreds of thousands over many years. His shooting ratio will be massive. The more you take, the luckier you'll get
What it takes to get a good body of work are thousands of hours of photography. Hard, consistent and thorough work.This way you also increase the amount of "keepers" you get. Of course in part, it is luck, but in photography you do make your own luck.
Just as with any craft, dedication and effort go a very long way.
This street photography is everything that is missing from photographers today.
They are not random chance images, like take out afterthoughts from a fast motor driven series.
They are well considered and prepared for, a developed skill !!
I am self taught, but I always say that if I could've had a mentor, I'd have liked it to be Richard...
its so fantastic to hear him speak. Thank you
That is a very informative presentation . I love Richard's manner and the way he presents
Thank you so much for this free workshop. This is Photography. Vote 10.
He is a photo genius, stills are indescribably great.
I’ve always thought the photos i shoot now may seem ordinary but in 10 20 years plus they’ll be a good record of this time. I look back at pictures I shot years ago and it absolutely is the passing of time which makes a good image a damn good image. Enjoyed that video cheers
Outstanding presentation and imagery.
fantastic work, sad time is running so fast and can't catch up those times...
Some great shots here. I enjoyed the whole session and shooting in New York is a whole different ball game from shooting in North Carolina! I need to look for more of Richard Herman videos.Thanks!
That cinematographic piece of art Gods of Times Square is a must see.
What an interesting video. Thank you.
Me to. I tried HC110 and other developers, but I came back to D76. Great developer. Plus-X and Tri-X.
I love the intentionality of "making a picture."
"Never shoot from the hip"... proceeds to show pictures shot from the hip. Lol. Great lecture from an amazing artist
"This is my Thing; I'm a photographer. I'm sorry if I upset you." - Richard Sandler
Excellent presentation. Thanks SVA!
Marvellous talk from a talented and humble man with a wonderfull history. I had to laugh at the irony of the horrible lighting on him though. What were they thinking?
you know... he truly is a master of photography you know ;)
Amazing pictures!
love this!
This is quite insightful :)
Fabulous...
Absolute top quality work and his talk. RS.
Ooooh im first to comment? ....hmm what to say- I LOVE SVA
Unfortunately people nowadays aren’t as present how they used to be. Taking a photo without someone holding their phone is somewhat near impossible
Enjoyed
oops! Richard Sandler I meant of course.....sorry Richard! : )
Miles above Gilden. Sandler takes Gilden and adds heart and poetry
that was first curtain flash but he talks as if its second curtain
Curious to intersect two of the audience topics: posterity and permission.
How would we view photographs of the 50s if they never depicted children?
Or depictions of cities if certain races or sexes were denied?
Do the subjects have the right to refuse inclusion?
What are the ethics of a parent in public refusing candid photography with their children?
It's presumptuous and very narrow-minded to frame the ethics in terms of the subjects only; what of the future witness? It could be viewed in a thousand years.
I recently saw photographs of Hemingway as a child dressed in a dress. This was common for boys of that era (although his mother insisted upon continuing the practice long enough for him to become deeply resentful). Would we even know if boys dressed this way without recordings? We carry so many assumptions and stereotypes of other times and places which records can dispel.
Negotiation, and reading people and scenes is integral to civic life. Whereas dogma denies the will and presence of mind; it may have a place, of course, just as limitations can give the tension required to create work. If dogma were to replace discretion and connexion we would be lost.
Photography is the most misunderstood of all the arts, that's why it has such a huge ratio of crap!!!
..Richard Sandler may know about photogrpahy but certainly not about the ethics of Zen…."Good street photography is a very Zen act, a very Zen art....an end run around the mind… if I want to take a picture I'll take it…." No, Richard, Zen is not doing whatever you want when you want it.
I believe he's saying in the frame of that it's more about completely focusing on the moment, finding the picture, making it yours (as in your vision/signature), which is the only thing that matters if you're out there with the intent of creating a body of work. It's about focus, not about ethics and monk-like behavior.