Lets get familiar with the work of Ernst Haas (1921–1986)
Haas is acclaimed as one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century and considered one of the pioneers of color photography. He started as a photojournalist, in the post-WWII years, working for Magnum and Life Magazine. His landmark exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1962 was the first to challenge the rule of black and white photographs in the art world . Well known for His trademark punchy colour, intentionally out of focus photographs motion studies using a slow shutter, and also celebrity portraits and film stills, street photography, flowers and abstracts.
to quote him
"Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry."
So your mission is to be inspired by the work of Ernst Haas in some way, either trying to emulate a particular image, technique or subject matter and interpret it in your own way,. One hint i would give is that if you have nik colour efex, try out the modern film filter on kodachrome setting, which will give you the richly saturated high contrast colour.
Images should be shot and or processed between 26th March and 15th April 2018
tag is ac-haas
@farmreporter note i have extended this challenge by a few days until after the weekend of 15 April, as people are preoccupied with the one week only challenge at present
@kali66 Thanks for this challenge. I have really enjoyed looking at Ernst Haas's photography online over the last week or so, and have just posted my first entry, 'Peeling'.
@kali66 - you're doing rather well with entries. i won't add to your headache anymore. :-) ♥ (that sounded over-confident, didn't it? in truth, the entries are so good i know i couldn't compete!)
I 'found' him when I was doing a photography course last year & love his work! :)