U75 Photo Assignment 1

[sovietpop]

consumer society

My attempt - not too many photos I'm afraid, too busy with christmas an all.
Its on flickr cos I couldn't find another way of putting text with the photos. Use the next button rather than the slide show option if you want to be able to read the text as well.


edited to add: I think Flickr is a very ugly photo hosting site.

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

My effort.

I really like this.

And I like the weird angles and the use of motion blur in this picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/23864891@N00/70171852/in/set-1510177/ and the commentary on the whole set really made me think.

 

[sovietpop]

Hmmm, what do we do now. Is it possible for someone to put all the links together - maybe on the OP- and then do we vote for three?

 

[Barking_Mad]

Soz, just been too busy to sort stuff out for this. Will try after Chrimbo. Like the photos though, good efforts

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

Hmmm, what do we do now. Is it possible for someone to put all the links together - maybe on the OP- and then do we vote for three?

I'll see what I can do.

 

[sovietpop]

 

[Paul Russell]

Has the assignment officially "closed" then?

Hmmm, what do we do now. Is it possible for someone to put all the links together - maybe on the OP- and then do we vote for three?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I guess that now the extended deadline of the 15th December has passed, those of us who have entered need to agree that the competition is closed. We also need to decide on how voting is to be done. There is no imperative to use the same voting system as the more established competition.

I suggest that we only vote for 1 each. I also suggest that voting be open, but perhaps some may think that it should be restricted only to those who have entered.

What do others think?

Hocus

 

[sovietpop]

I think it should be open, and I kind of like having more than one vote each, it spreads the joy around a little (though it probably wouldn't work if the number entering are very low, as they are this week, but if there is more than 10 entries I think it should be three favorites as usual).

The biggest problem with this competition is that there don't seem to be any good free photo-sites that incorporate both text and photos.

 

[Robster970]

I think it should be open, and I kind of like having more than one vote each, it spreads the joy around a little (though it probably wouldn't work if the number entering are very low, as they are this week, but if there is more than 10 entries I think it should be three favorites as usual).

The biggest problem with this competition is that there don't seem to be any good free photo-sites that incorporate both text and photos.

I think a single vote for low numbers too. I suspect there will only be a fairly hard core of us who will go and do this anyway because of the amount of time spent on it (that's rich from me, one afternoon......)

Given the lack of sites, probably best to put up a single page with the links only on it - can't see how else it would work.

 

[Biddlybee]

I also suggest that voting be open, but perhaps some may think that it should be restricted only to those who have entered.

I didn't get my shit together for this assignment, but would still like to vote, so make it open - please.

 

[hiccup]

Open voting I reckon, as there are a relatively small amount of entrants, and it would be nice to get as much feedback as possible.

Are we declaring it closed, unless anyone else is going to enter in the near future?

For the next one (if there is a next one) maybe we should mention it a lot more on the photo comp thread.

 

[disco_dave_2000]

as long as people don't have to pay to vote, it should be open

 

[franklin1777]

I vote for open. I also agree with one vote each. Although what we could do is have one vote for best assignment and one vote for all time favourite photo.


How many entries we got?

I think we should also say it is now closed, looks like everyone has pretty much got everything together.

 

[Robster970]

How many entries we got?

All these -

Robster970 - day out in maidenhead

Paul Russell - con cult

Franklin1777 - Consumerism

Hocus Eye - Consumer Culture: Hocus Eye view

Disco Dave - Consumer Culture

Hiccup - My effort

Sovietpop - consumer society

My vote goes on Hiccup - like the style of it all.

 

[franklin1777]

right it is obviously a very difficult choice but my vote goes to sovietpop for the different way for looking at high street scenes. love the angles and some of the small details in the folio.

Love the festivals pic and the commentry for that one.
I think the last picture of the shop assistant in the window is great too, it looks like she is about to climb into the display.


Well photographed and good commentary well done.

 

[sajana]

I know its too late to enter the competition. Took these pictures late last week, and scrambled to put them together. Could not even add commentaries to individual pics. Since the competition is closed, feedbacks and criticisms welcome.


“Consumption in a cultural context.” (click on slideshow)

My core premise while taking pictures was to capture the consumption of goods because of its cultural value as opposed to say buying for need.

Bangles are important to married Indian women. Women from various regions wear specific colored bangle to symbolize their marital status. Red in Bengal, green glass bangles in Maharashtra, gold bangles in Kerala and so on.

These pictures are of my bangle-freak colleague seema, on a buying spree in Kolhapur city, Maharashtra, India last week.

 

[sajana]

opps, i should have perhaps posted this first. the competition should be open i think. and my vote goes to sovietpop.

(liked the composition of cineworld )

 

[sovietpop]

My vote goes to Paul Russell.
(but I think Disco Dave should be congratulated for having the most imaginative approach)

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

Everyone, can you post your votes on the newly-added poll at the top of the thread? It seems that you have decided on one vote each and that the comp is now closed (I agree).

Note that I've set the poll to end in five days, so get them votes in quick!

 

[hiccup]

I voted for sovietpop, cos I liked the commentary that accompanied the photos, and I thought the photos were quite evocative of the de-humanising effect of consumerism.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Bloody hell! These are all a bit good. Sort of enjoyed looking at what I've been escaping from for the past year here in rural Spain.

Really don't know who to vote for. Liked Sovietpop's Lowry analagy and use of quotes. I think the mall shots are very like mice cages with all those escalators shovelling nobodies to the next treat. Liked Hiccup's global theme also (even if the Irish Bar in Manhattan didn't happen!). Robster970's are very nice also. They're all good. What a great idea this was.

Tough call but, I go with Sovietpop simply because the 'mall' theme and Lowry comparisons held the whole selection together a bit more tightly than the others.

 

[Paul Russell]

Nice theme.

I suppose one good thing about only having a few entrants is that you can have a poll and nobody has to do the adding up!

How about doing a post in "General"?

Must get round to voting soon...

I liked Hocus Eye's picture of the [adopts Leslie Phillips persona] splendidly attractive young lady eating an apple.

 

[Biddlybee]

All really good entries and fair play for sorting it out (unlike someone ).
Not easy with just one vote... but sovietpop it is. Liked the narrative and the shots were all from great angles.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Another vote here for Sovietpop. I chickened out of photographing in my local shopping mall so well done for getting past the security guards and taking some lively pictures.

Hocus

 

[sovietpop]

I posted an ad in general.

to security guards.

 

[Paul Russell]

I voted for Hocus Eye, BTW.

 

[Robster970]

It's looking remarkably like a Sovietpop whitewash at the moment. I demand a recount !!

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

He has reprogrammed the poll software to discount all the black voters' votes, that's why he's winning.

 

[sovietpop]

I guess that means I've won then. Thank you all for your votes. My computer crashed and I've lost the original pictures so now they live only on the internet. Let that be a warning to you all, BACK UP YOUR PHOTOS.

I'm trying to think up of a new theme, if people are still interested. I'll post it up in the next few days, and then I suggest we go from Jan the 1st to Feb the 15th (6 weeks) which will give people a bit more of a chance to think about it. I think a longer time frame will encourage more people to participate, and I'll try and think of something that is fairly open.