trent parke
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A short Presentation on photographer Trent Parke and a sample of his work.TRANSCRIPT
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TRENT PARKE
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Who?!
• Australian born Trent Parke is considered one of the most innovative and challenging young photographers of his generation. After covering sports news for a paper in Sydney Australia for a few years,
• He bought a Lieca, was introduced to Rodinal and the high contrast way of processing and printing images.
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Technical sidebar…
• (Rodinal (aka Adonal) is a concentrated liquid developer with very long storage life; the working developer is used once.
• Rodinal increases perceived edge sharpness dramatically: since the developer is used up more quickly in dark than in light areas, development of light areas next to dark areas (the edges of the image) is reduced, increasing contrast at edges.
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• His mistake of putting a battery incorrectly into his Nikonos and developing the underexposed film for an inordinately long time led to a two year brush with the the sea that led to the The Seventh Wave and further experiments with chance and experiment and serendipity and contrast and technique.
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The Seventh wave
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The Seventh Wave
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The seventh wave
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The seventh wave
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Minutes to Midnight
• In 2003 Parke was awarded the prestigious international W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his series Minutes to Midnight. Parke documented his journey around Australia over a two-year period, examining 'the current and changing state of the Australian nation'
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Minutes to midnight
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His mouth to our ears
We don’t have him right here to tell us about his
technique, but we have the next best thing: He taught a week long seminar once and one
of his students kept a blog. Here are those words of wisdom:
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“Shoot the S**t out of it”
• Trent’s favorite phrase. It doesn’t just mean “take a lot of photos”.
• Change angles, play with the light, go back at different times of day, return to the same subject over and over trying to find a new way to shoot it.
• More about obsession than repetition. Work hard for your shot. A corollary: “Stop thinking and just shoot”.
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BEGINNER’S LUCK
• When starting out, just turn your camera into a black box so that you don’t need to think about it.
• Set it to f11, 1/250th, pre-focus, then just concentrate on the light and subject. Subject is key. Light is everything.
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BEGINNER’S LUCK
• Sequence your photos to tell a story. • If you can get photos out of your backyard you
can get photos anywhere.• Anyways think “how can I shoot this so it will
look different to how everyone else would shoot it”.
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Working the brewery
• The low light levels in most breweries meant I was using wide apertures which give you out-of-focus backgrounds and a bit of a romantic look to the photos. I never used flash, in fact I refused to use flash because the light was too harsh.
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• Trent thought they were good, but the lighting was too ‘flat’.
• He spent 10 minutes showing me techniques of using off-camera flash and sent me to back to the brewery looking for interesting textures and shapes.
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• In the new style everything is the complete opposite. Small apertures (f/11-f/22) mean almost everything visible is in sharp focus
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The Brewery
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• OLD STYLE• NEW STYLE
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• There is nothing really wrong with the first set of pictures, but in the new style, the play with light and shadows is more dramatic, making the pictures that much more interesting.
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• Trent does with color as well, but with his new photography Black Rose has returned to black and white and medium and large format .Most of his books are available for browsing at Barnes & Noble and Youtube has one or two clips of him talking about the passion behind his projects.