Frank van der Salm

November 22, 2009 10:32 AM

Frank van der Salm Photography: Zone ll Cluster ll Control ll Sector ll Gate ll Descent
posted by vronsky (16 comments total)

Wow, tilt-shift. How original.
posted by Dr. Send at 10:48 AM on November 22, 2009

No people. I like.

almost none
posted by sidereal at 11:07 AM on November 22, 2009

Some of the pics are very cool. I particularly like the ones in China.


Wow, thread-shit straight out of the starting gate. How original.
posted by ClanvidHorse at 11:11 AM on November 22, 2009

I must admit, I was all meh until I saw this.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:36 AM on November 22, 2009

Love this image and this one.

And yes, tilt-shift is the photographic equivalent of auto-tune.
posted by rottytooth at 11:56 AM on November 22, 2009

i came for the dog-pile on tilt-shift abuse, but it's 4 comments in and i'm already late.
posted by klanawa at 11:59 AM on November 22, 2009

To be fair, it's only a small minority of the photographs that are tilt-shift.
posted by bjrn at 12:01 PM on November 22, 2009

tilt-shift is the photographic equivalent of auto-tune.

Well, this guy isn't doing his stuff in PhotoShop (or is he? :-), and didn't exactly start doing this because it's the latest trend on the interweb -- his career is a bit longer than that.
posted by effbot at 12:05 PM on November 22, 2009

I like these photos.

And there's nowt wrong with tilt shift or autotune!
posted by the cuban at 12:22 PM on November 22, 2009

"Wow, tilt-shift. How original.'

well a lot of those tilt shift shots date back to 1995, so yeah, they probably were pretty original back then.

alt site
posted by vronsky at 12:33 PM on November 22, 2009

I don't care if the mechanics of achieving these pieces are readily available. These images are beautiful. Many of them made me think again about the way I normally perceive clusters of buildings or business spaces. Thanks Vronsky.
posted by bearwife at 1:26 PM on November 22, 2009

Recognizing and photographing patterns in the modern world around us: he's a poor man's Andreas Gursky.

Gursky does it better.
posted by Andy's Gross Wart at 2:54 PM on November 22, 2009

To each his own I guess Gross Wart. I personally didn't find any of these very engaging.

More on Frank.
posted by vronsky at 3:15 PM on November 22, 2009

I don't like tilt-shifts in general. Some of the other shots are kind of nice. I was going to make another "Oh look it's a guy with a camera" comment, but then I figured, why be so crude? If anyone put up a post about my photography, I'm sure it would get the same kind of snark, but as we are being smothered with ubiquitous photography these days, most of it drivel, any attempt to retain a modicum of artfulness should be at least noted, if not applauded.
posted by Poagao at 4:39 PM on November 22, 2009

great flickr sets Poagao :)

Interesting and Stall are my faves so far.

(It's a shame that Flickr remains so hard to navigate. It really only works as a slideshow.)
posted by vronsky at 6:28 PM on November 22, 2009

Thanks, Vronsky. I've been wonderingly lately about other venues besides Flickr, as well as if I should put images I would like to publish elsewhere up there as well.
posted by Poagao at 8:46 PM on November 22, 2009