The Liberation of Limitation - with Alan Schaller
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- Alan Schaller, an early adopter of black and white photography in the digital age, was among the first to get his hands on the new Leica M10 Monochrom.
Narrative and reduction - two essential factors that are the hallmark of street photographer Alan Schaller’s visual signature. In dense, atmospheric images he manages to capture life in all its shapes and shades.
Outstanding images are never a matter of chance. They require dedication, courage and the will to do whatever it takes to see a vision realised. As an icon of contemporary black and white photography, Alan Schaller’s distinctive visual style works as a universal language understood around the world. Equipped with the new Leica M10 Monochrom, Alan wandered grey and rainy London, shedding light on the liberating quality he finds in limitations.
Since the beginning of his career, Alan Schaller decided not to look for colours, using a focal length of 24mm for the most part. These decisions helped him develop an eye for the interplay of light, geometry and humans.
“Experimenting will only get you to a certain point.”
To decide early on how and what he wanted to shoot, ignoring all other photographic opportunities, has enabled Alan to define his own niche and learn how to master it.
“You need courage to know what your direction is.”
The concept behind an image is as important to a photographer as the image itself. Only a body of work that shows consistency creates recognition.
“You have to go out and engage. Only then will it come to you.”
Alan Schaller’s images often seem to convey a deeper message, but don’t expect an exact explanation from the photographer - he likes to leave them open to interpretation.
Alan Schaller is hands down one of the best photographers of this generation
Tae I’m glad you are enjoying my work 🙏🏼
With all due respect...I would have to say one of the best to ever live!!!
Alan will be remembered as one of the greatest photographers of this current generation
He will be remembered as the photoshop king, he is overrated.
@Enrique I gotta say you're right. Very sterile. But he still does what he does extremely well
Been following Alan on Instagram for a long time and he is by far the favorite in my feed. A huge inspiration.
Hows the md ?
@@soundchecked123 Fantastic but now it's in for calibration and check-up. Wanted to make sure it's good to go for the rest of the year.
Cheers Mattias
Alan Schaller creates amazing images, excellent video.
The cinematography here is as striking as Alan Schaller's photographs.
What Amazing pictures!!!
Being a huge fan on B&W photography I really like Alan's images and style of shooting.
What beautiful work. And thank you for your inspiration. Love your advice too. Cheers
This set of images and the way the video was shot is very inspirational. As someone that has often gone down the rabbit hole of ‘too much’ gear, I find myself finally letting go of extraneous gear and settling in with the Monochrom and 2 lenses. It is like a deep weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
wow, just wow...by far the best 24 mm photographer I have ever seen
You can see that he does it with passion. Amazing photos! :) I love it!
Respectfully i think Alan Schaller is one of the best photographers ive ever witness. To me he is among my pantheon of photographers.
Really talented artist and a gorgeous video that compliments well. The Monochrom seems nothing short of marvellous. I also have to say that it is refreshing watching a promo video for a Leica Product where it doesn't feel pretentious or have a product that feels over milked by the photographer just for the sake of promoting a new product. It's a good camera with genuine words and even greater photographs. Well done!
Max Fairclough Thank you Max, it’s a really great camera for sure.
thanks Alan for your pictures and your great play with light!!
It inspires me very much to use my M Monochrom different as I did up to now.
Great concept....”the liberation of limitation “. So true.
Just discovered Alan. Super inspiring and excellent collection of photos.
What a great little film and the photography is just amazing.
Simply stunning.
Such a talented artist ! Kudos Alan !
Very well done Leica & Mr Schaller ! Beautiful photography with good story. Refreshing.
wilhelm westergren Thank you very much Wilhelm
Spectacular photos 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Great publicity for a great camera. Wonderful images.
This was such an amazing video, so emotional too
What a photographer.
Some of us really have talent.
The others have pleasure to shoot ; which is not bad already.
The issue is when you're not aware that you don't have any talent 🙂
Goosebumps !
Joris Vanné I’m glad you like it
Great video with nice pictures and i totally agree with the liberation of limitation theme.
One technical point is the author was using the in camera viewfinder with a 24mm lens even though the camera has no frame lines for that particular lens.
Fabulous.. Loved this. 😍😍👌👌
Love the idea of fixing a focus distance. Very nice tip.
Another great video!
The one of the child in the holocaust memorial in Berlin is incredible, I love your work and there so many outstanding shots in this series.
3:03 till the end. The images combined with that Roza song.... pure genius ❤️ great work Alan
Could you tell me whats the song please, im looking for it !
@@emptyel the wait is over my friend! The name of the song is "Giving Her Inner Fire"
Awesome!
Phenomenal... :-)
Like Allan's bag...some great shots..
Really awesome i like his works very much even if I don't take pictures with Leica and unfortunately I don't have any.
Great Video!
These are what I want my photos look like.
Alan is a master of composition and the high contrast look of his images is achieved mostly in camera by exposure, choice of subject and knowing how the camera sees the light differently than our eyes. I wonder if the monochrome sensor plays a hole here also, giving him more information to play with in post.
Shaller's work inspires me greatly. Thank you for showing us more about his mindset as a street photography.
Unfortunately he photograph only in black and white. Think limiting to that kind of genre hold you back to develop new skills. Think there are way better photographers out there but not so well known.
@@Krabspinne yeah, there are lots of great artists that don't get much recognition. Alan is a great artist and also makes success. Im glad for him
Excellent video
enormous talent
Makes sense. But just some times for me. Then I switch and LOVE the combination of colors... or something nearly monochrome in... blue... the pastels of Saul Leiter for instance. Then again, the B/W photography of a film like THE MAN WHO WAS NOT THERE (DP: Roger Deakins!) then the mad colors of the final sequence of 2001 or APOCALYPSE NOW or a film by Wes Anderson. Brillant pics, Alan, for sure. But I would NEVER give up the opportunity of a RAW pic that let's me decide if I want to keep or lose the color. The picture will tell me, if it is better this or that way.
impressive images.
Alan your my great inspiration and would you like make more video that's make us more encourage.. That's right people buy some much equipments and confuse which one is better to use. would you like make tutorial for black and white editing .
wow!
A MASTER... 👌🏼
Yan green eyed.
Amazing
He's genius!
Great
Incredible :)
krishnan srinivasan Thank you!
Awesome work - my only issue with the Leica marketing is that I noticed they used all of Alan’s photos for their monochrome campaign. Not every one is going to achieve those kinda of results...it’s such a unique style that I fear you’ll have lots of copy cats.
Well you know, give 100 guys an M10M and none of the pictures probably would turn out like that.
Alan has talent and he works hard at his own vision.
No amount of money thrown at gear will ever equal that combo: talent and vision trumps all
NICE
what is the make of the black leather camera bag i see in your videos? love your work. inspired me to get the q2 mono which i love.
Typically Alan wears ONA bags. A leather Ony bowery. and perhaps a secodn model.
Hi Alan , do you use any colour filter?
Can just somebody mention me which camera Alan uses?
The main problem now with street photography is a lot of photographers who show there work in galleries sadly use models so it's not real street photography in the historical sense; the reason for this is copyright and lawsuits against the gallery/ photographer. So although the photographer legally owns the image the person within the image they don't and by showing this without their consent can be liable. That's why a lot of galleries reject or get very nervous of street work which is very sad for all of us who like street photography.
Ralph Gibson uses the same approach, i.e, placing limits on himself. Aha, it IS a Leica Monocrom! Well, then, never mind what I said about shooting in B&W! ;)
Guy is a stud.
One of the best is our time. Mate used the 35 APO and he said the gear is not important in the clip😂
O cara é muito bom
Really, my unkown guy. 💋s to you.
👍👍
Quando potrò mi comprerò la leica Q2 monochrom! ...ci manca poco...
The beast M Camera....
Who’s got the song?
Great images. I love to know if these images where straight of the camera or edited.
They are edited. I remember in some other interview he edits his images but he also warns never to over edit in that you can never turn a bad photo in camera to a good one through editing. Think the video is called 7 tips for black and white photography Alan Schaller
You can clearly see that they edit :D
Missed opportunity to color grade this video in black & white
That’s a cliche
What is the name of the song, anyone knows ?
Christoph Niemann the song is from Roza - I‘ll understand
The boss
Anyone have a link to the song?
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Pavel Petrov Thank you!
My goodness does anyone know this song
You can't go wrong with leica cameras
awesome pictures. But I am curious how he shoots a 24mm on a leica without an external EVF
Jacob Christiansen he uses rear display.
@@evertigo he was was clearly looking through the viewfinder in the video.
@@stephenedmunds207well maybe he's framing using the whole of the viewfinder window area and not bothered about frame lines.
If I was sponsored by Leica, I could also go out every day and take pictures, instead I have to be on a desk and go out whenever I can.
I am missing the original Leica Monochrome project where Leica had collaborated with Jacob Aub Sobol; there was a soul in the project (Arrivals and Departures) itself and of course in Sobol's pictures where the observer could take time to enjoy and most importantly feel the atmosphere. However, here, I only see images which are highly post-processed via Photoshop. Half of the images are blacked out. Yes, today's instagram people will love it, but I think people are being amazed by the high contrast characteristics of images but not compositions itself anymore.
delimanyak I totally agree with you. Pictures are too post processed. It would better to be amazed by the compositions rather than to see all the high contrasts.
It is a shame that they use highly processed pictures with no character to identify this camera. Heck, even the pictures are not taken with the M10 monochrome...
You are absolutely correct in your assessment. Sadly, today, with all the terrible images from i-phones and such, there are VERY,very few people who know what a good photograph (in color) looks like. Taken to black and white which an abstraction of and abstraction ( to paraphrase the late Ansel Adams) and the high-contrast is better attitude takes over, I think. The extreme post-processing is too much like spending days in the darkroom and 50 sheets of photographic paper to make one "good" print. Composition and shapes juxtaposed in unusual ways are the greatest strengths of black and white photography. I wonder what Preston Seaton or the late Brett Weston images from the Leica M 10 would look like?
@@Walkercolt1 I couldn't agree more than that. Thanks for your wonderful analysis. Sadly, photography is turning into a "image making" with photoshop and other available software; and sadly people are thinking that it is the true photography. To be honest, no one needs such camera to take images like in this video. even iPhone and a good software can handle that. I also wonder how Preston Seaton or the late Brett Weston images from the Leica M 10 would look like : )
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if only leicas would be affordable...
I ran when he mentioned geometry as I see another white person talk about photography.
Don’t focus to hard
don‘t focus too hard
Don't get me wrong, I really like your pix and I think you've got a great eye but limiting yourself to just this format is just that; limiting. Try taking a camera with a prime telephoto too.
Too constrasty for my taste, B&W should have the beautiful midtones.
Should? Photography is subjective and I’m a firm believer in no rules. Make your own art
Not exciting.. Hehehe boring thx leica