Comments on: 'All pictures are unnatural' - David Bailey

'All pictures are unnatural' - David Bailey

anastasiav — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:00:44 -0800

Hu's Gallery in the Sky :: interesting and amazing cameraphone photos.

By: driveler

driveler — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:14:38 -0800

Excellent. Ideas, composition, and lighting are often way more important in photography than fancy gear.

By: Gooney

Gooney — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:32:55 -0800

Whoa! My camera phone sucks....

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:50:22 -0800

Amazing.

By: Qubit

Qubit — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:26:32 -0800

Interesting? Some. Amazing? None.

By: davebush

davebush — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:42:05 -0800

Every photo in Gallery 1 looks like a 4AD record cover.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:56:11 -0800

"what u see is what was shot - no digital manipulation just daylight cut wuth talent." The site shouldn't be called "hupix." It should be called "hubris."

By: apis mellifera

apis mellifera — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:02:59 -0800

I particularly liked the first gallery.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:12:50 -0800

Brilliant. This is the sort of thing that has stopped me spending a small fortune on a digital SLR and work harder n making the most of the equipment I already have.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:14:48 -0800

I'm fondly drawn back to PenCam

By: Substrata

Substrata — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:26:57 -0800

great stuff, thanks

By: matteo

matteo — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:06:44 -0800

no digital manipulation there's some good stuff, but more than a few shots look Photoshopped to death

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:08 -0800

are you talking about the pics in gallery 2? Because they're probably the result of a technical glitch. I ran into similar results early on with pencam.

By: kcds

kcds — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:27:27 -0800

Wow, I gotta get me one-a them Sharp GX20 camera phones - they take great pictures ... he musta got a good one, though, just like that Henri Cartier-Bresson got one-a th' good Box Brownies 'coz his camera took great pictures too ...

By: surplus

surplus — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:35:40 -0800

I am not a world class photographer, crunchland, but I am pretty sure the effect is an exaggeration of color banding which can be achieved by combinations of overcompression and underexposure. So maybe it's possible he forced the camera into low light situations with small image sizes. Just guessing. I'd be more interested in how he got some of the washouts with color isolation like in gallery 3. Any ideas?