Have you ever covered a sporting event where you forgot to set you camera properly? And despite having the wrong settings, something beautiful comes out of it? Just wanted to share one that I accidentally took last Sunday :)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b349/erworm/IMG_2589.jpg

Parang dream sequence o matinding tama...

Something from LS


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Thought for the Day: The Spark of Accident

Twice now I have come across Benjamin’s famous line about the spark of accident, in Linfield’s article about photo criticism and in David Friend’s article in Digital Journalist, cited by Jukka on a separate thread. Here is Benjamin’s famous passage, he is looking at a 19th century picture of a man and his fiancée: “Immerse yourself in such a picture long enough and you will realize to what extent opposites touch, here too: the most precise technology can give its products a magical value, such as a painted picture can never again have for us. . . . The beholder feels an irresistible urge to search such a picture for the tiny spark of contingency, of the here and now, with which reality has (so to speak) seared the subject, to find the inconspicuous spot where in the immediacy of that long-forgotten moment the future nests so eloquently that we, looking back, may rediscover it.”
That phrase, the spark of accident (or contingency depending on the translation), seems to me to sum up the special allure of photography and contains the secret of its esthetic. Unlike studio photograph which is so controlled, it seems to me that street photography, documentary photography, photojournalism, and even portrait photography retains its special power to sway precisely for this reason: the bit of serendipity, the spark of accident, to capture something here and now that resists control, is self-assertive, and is something quite quite magical because of its contingency. this is precisely what brought me to the practice of photography.
Barthes later on developed this aperçu in his definition of the punctum:
“A photograph’s punctum is that accident [of photographic detail] which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me), ...for punctum is also: sting, speck, cut, little hole—-and also a cast of the dice” The punctum is the cynosure, but it is entirely a matter of a cast of the dice.

http://www.lightstalkers.org/thought_for_the_day__the_spark_of_accident

http://static.flickr.com/82/248226532_272dfd8ef5.jpg

this one breaks all the rules : subject is in the center, it's mega grainy, i used digital zoom. but still i love it.

Something from LS


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Thought for the Day: The Spark of Accident

Twice now I have come across Benjamin’s famous line about the spark of accident, in Linfield’s article about photo criticism and in David Friend’s article in Digital Journalist, cited by Jukka on a separate thread. Here is Benjamin’s famous passage, he is looking at a 19th century picture of a man and his fiancée: “Immerse yourself in such a picture long enough and you will realize to what extent opposites touch, here too: the most precise technology can give its products a magical value, such as a painted picture can never again have for us. . . . The beholder feels an irresistible urge to search such a picture for the tiny spark of contingency, of the here and now, with which reality has (so to speak) seared the subject, to find the inconspicuous spot where in the immediacy of that long-forgotten moment the future nests so eloquently that we, looking back, may rediscover it.”
That phrase, the spark of accident (or contingency depending on the translation), seems to me to sum up the special allure of photography and contains the secret of its esthetic. Unlike studio photograph which is so controlled, it seems to me that street photography, documentary photography, photojournalism, and even portrait photography retains its special power to sway precisely for this reason: the bit of serendipity, the spark of accident, to capture something here and now that resists control, is self-assertive, and is something quite quite magical because of its contingency. this is precisely what brought me to the practice of photography.
Barthes later on developed this aperçu in his definition of the punctum:
“A photograph’s punctum is that accident [of photographic detail] which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me), ...for punctum is also: sting, speck, cut, little hole—-and also a cast of the dice” The punctum is the cynosure, but it is entirely a matter of a cast of the dice.

http://www.lightstalkers.org/thought_for_the_day__the_spark_of_accident

... Currently absorbing what you quoted... Nice Tammy! :SunGlass:

... Currently absorbing what you quoted... Nice Tammy! :SunGlass:

likewise sir:)

... Currently absorbing what you quoted... Nice Tammy! :SunGlass:

:D

He was just smoking a cigarette but his expression looks as if he was smoking something else like his shirt.

http://static.flickr.com/68/190148443_e5364419ba.jpg

:D

He was just smoking a cigarette but his expression looks as if he was smoking something else like his shirt.

http://static.flickr.com/68/190148443_e5364419ba.jpg


lol howd you get that shot celcam? talk about incognito!

hehe he looks like a man that'll beat somebody up for taking his pic! :D

lol howd you get that shot celcam? talk about incognito!

I just found the guy (Photojournalist Patrick Chauvel aka GOD) funny so I just kept on taking photos then boom...happy herbs

Happy Herbs! HAHA
Thought I was the only one who used that term haha.

Happy Herbs! HAHA
Thought I was the only one who used that term haha.

Dood if you're free this November, join me and a couple of friends. Angkor Photo Festival. Happy Herb Pizzas galore.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/angkorphotographyfestival/

Just like Er, was shooting basketball but because of my constant moving around, the camera was accidentally set to Av instead of my Manual settings. Thought that I missed a nice layup but the resulting image was better than I had expected:

http://static.flickr.com/92/253957442_d7e89703cd.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nonofelipe/253957442/)