Today SAR reader Sam Li has a great story to share!
Sam: “I follow your website religiously. It’s what made me decide to sell all my Canon gear to purchase the Sony a7. I recently just came back from a 22 day roadtrip across the west coast and shot these beautiful photographs with the Sony a7 + Zeiss 35 2.8.”
This is the official presentation of his work:
Artist Statement
Sam Li’s (22) lifestyle portraits captures the natural beauty of strangers through intimate moments by celebrating imagination and youth. His photography entices the audience to enter his own “Paracosm-” daring them to reminisce upon their own.
paracosm (noun):
A paracosm is a detailed imaginary world created inside one’s mind – often described as a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography, language and history.
Sam Li’s “Paracosm” began as a quest to capture isolated moments of youth in following his muse Jenna Lipps throughout the thick, thin and wilds of the West Coast. This desire lead to a successful Kickstarter initiative that funded their entire trip allowing for donors to feel included in the process.
The idea is that we have no way of apprehending our vision as years go by. No idea of what life has in store for us and how our lives and our mentality will differ 20 years from now. The Paracosm series stems from a desire to capture an expression of the joys of being young, wild and free.
Li and Lipps began and ended the trip with a distinct understanding of how youth in itself must be cherished, as at times there can be very little solace in an escape from reality. Each photograph was chosen specifically for it’s ability to capture the effortless nature of the pairs innocent chemistry and youthful joie de vivre. In an essence they are the moments that best give the audience a view into their shared Paracosm.
The Paracosm exhibition invites its audience to capture the essence of what it means to live in each moment – etching that redeeming bliss into their memories.
LINKS:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1643981001/paracosm
http://www.c-heads.com/2014/04/10/telling-the-story-of-the-nostalgia-for-youth-a-talk-with-sam-li-and-jenna-lipps-about-the-paracosm-trip/
www.instagram.com/samlivm
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what do you guys think about the OOP?
everyone is dying…. as time tick-tock non stopping… no news A7s price n new FF
There is more to life than A7s, its availability or pricing or even Sony’ s existence.
Just wanted to let you know. 🙂
Yep, on Sunday afternoon your are supposed to have some fun with your family 🙂
My cameras and this site are the only family I have left.
After I sold off everything to afford every new model, I ended up selling my wife too, my two children and my pets to human traffickers and some dodgy michelin star chefs.
These days I only drool my laptop monitor from any starbucks that allows me to stay long enough to charge my laptop battery and reload the page every minute. If the internet connection is not fast enough, I often just read the offline cached pages again…and again…and again.
That was an unpleasant and terrifying read :<
You’re supposed to check out this page every now and then so you can actually go out and live your life. Maybe even take a few pictures along the way.
I got a price about the A7s form a source. Trying to confirm it now before to post it because Sony itself shared wrong pricing info for purpose to check the feedback 🙂
Sound like it’s actually cheaper than the rumoured price.
If the rumor about the feedback is true, I feel vindicated about my repeated posts on the over optimistic price rumors. I hope Sony will price them sensibly, that is below that of the A7, especially given the lower specs of the camera (lower pixies, no internal 4K, low bit output, rumored rolling shutter, low battery life, etc, etc and in light of the splendid performance of the Panasonic GH4 for a much lower price). 🙂
I also wish that they price α7S sensibly, but how can you compare a full frame camera featuring 409.000 ISO with a micro 4/3? That’s blasphemy! 🙂
Agree .. It’s definitely cheaper but why sell a7s for let’s say $1800 when Nikon Df with almost same sensor type is selling for $2750.
They look at it this way I guess , they want to sell it less than the Df but not less than $2500 or maybe more than the Df.
I guess that’s why they rumored a high price to check the feedback , if it is not going to sell well for over $2500 then they will keep it in the range of it’s sisters the a7 and a7R
speaking from personal experience I can say that the a7 is the greatest camera in Sony’s line, you can’t beat it’s size & weight , price , IQ , ergonomics & handling , features and sexiness.
I can guarantee that all photography lovers will enjoy shooting with the a7 ,it’s the mirrorless revolution over DSLRs.
only negative is .. it’s going to make you clean your DSLR gear from dust more than you did before.
🙂
Glad you like it. My a7R sits in the bag more and more because it’s such a pain in the a$$ to use. Horrible ergonomics, can’t adjust rear dial without raising my hand on the grip, and can’t shoot in that position. My palm hits the VG button all the time. Must leave it off, so it’s not convenient.
Slow slow startup time compared to real Alpha’s.
Slow wake up time. So slow that I often check to see if turned on.
Battery life is horrible. Just horrible.
No diagonal scrolling for control wheel.
Doesn’t work with Phottix Odin radio transmitter… Only full power and no HSS.
Size very uncomfortable with any larger glass from 85/1.4 and up.
No click stops on the shutter release… Just one big spring with no tactile feedback.
Can’t use tripod on LAEA-4 when VG is attached.
Batteries go in both ways, so can’t do it by feel like a real Alpha.
Always has hick-ups… sometimes won’t play back. Sometimes won’t magnify. Sometimes just restarts without warning. Never trusted.
Playback and magnification are super slow compared to real Alphas.
Can’t change AF point with one click, like real Alpha.
Always menu diving for the simplest task.
Steady shot is dearly missed. I had no idea how much difference it made until the a7 blurry photos come out.
Love the IQ and the viewfinder. Wish the same was on a pro Alpha. Hate Sony for not doing that.
a7R sits in the bag collecting dust more and more, waiting for highest res job needs. 99% of everything else is well done with a real Alpha, in comfort with speed and no hick-ups.
You can’t ask for a DSLR experience from a smaller mirrorless camera, I agree on some of the negatives you mentioned but for my use those negatives are not that important.
About the slow start time.. Yes it was too slow until they released the new update it got much better.
We all knew about battery life from reviews, so everyone is buying at least 2 extra batteries ,it’s not a big deal.
Batteries go on both ways I totally agree with you I HATE IT, but do you think it’s something wrong with the a7R ? It’s the battery design.
No click stops on shutter release.. Another point we both agree on, it made me nervous when I started using the a7 but I got used to it now .. It something you should get used to by time.
Those hick-ups you talked about never happened to me with the a7, and you mentioned the VG and LA-EA4 problems and radio transmitters that I don’t use (thank god).
I think it’s a matter of your way of using the camera and for what type of photography ,the reason why I said in the strat of my comment “from personal experience”
All in all , I love the a7 with it’s negatives .. Hard to find such features with a FF sensor in this size
Nice photos! I love the theme (paracosm). Thanks for sharing.
Great shots. Nice lighting on the Zabriskie Point one.
Sam Li has at least one thing right: DSLRs will be a shrinking niche. They’ll never go away, just as film will never go away, but they are no longer THE camera to buy.
Out of the five photos shown here, only the second qualifies as “beautiful”. I like the paracosm theme though.