The Quietly Beautiful Photography of Josh Edgoose 

Wow thank you Alex - this video has made my week. You’ve done a much better job at articulating the book than I could have 😅. Thank you for taking the time to do this, it really means a lot to me - Josh

In a world of street photographers running around dragging their shutters with bright flashes in peoples startled faces josh's photography is an absolute delight.

I hope you see this comment! I found your channel a couple of weeks ago and now I am basically obsessed. As a "photographer" that started shooting last year, I am so thankful that this kind of content is available for the masses! THANK YOU SIR! YOU'RE AN INSPIRATION 🤝

Loved it. They are warm and soft. No emphasis on sharpenss, highlights nor definitions. Just plain simple old school styled photos. And its great. Loved it. Thank you for bringing this across to us. 'Quitely Beautiful' is apt

” Photography is an emotional thing”- I totally agree with you! I’m so tired of this obsession that photos must be absolutely according to all the rules and everything must be sharp. Yes, if you’re intention is to sell the photos as prints or to magazines I think that’s a must but if you are a hobby photographer, which the majority of us are, we don’t have to obey all of those rules. That’s what’s fun about photography, expressing your emotions, breaking rules, photographing things that appeal to us, forgetting about time and space and enjoying the photographic experience! I thank you for reminding us of that and bringing joy to photography!❤

Love your discussions, because they help me to think about my own creative process and had a bit of an epiphany during this video. Where I live in a mountainous post-soviet state, a more hard and brutalist style makes much more sense in a place with rigid cultural norms, an authoritarian government, and the physical environment is just very rocky and severe and everywhere you look in the city are just jagged broken things. Then to mix it up, I feel that a warmer tone makes more sense to reflect the warmness of hospitality, the bond of family, and hope for a brighter future sort of looming on the horizon.

Never heard of this chap but he’s a great photographer. He makes colour photos that not many do. They train on the bridge is amazing 👍

Josh's color palette reminds me of Wes Anderson films.

The Josh pallet is absolutely Norman Rockwell-ishian, tone, hue, the frame...! The whole new era thing, bright shiny day. You've picked up on yet another emergent aspect of creativity in the visual arts, the concept of iteration...in your home range.

Wonderful, subtle composition combined with an incredible sense of color. Thanks for showcasing Josh‘s work.

I was born on 64 so I remember the 1970's which I hated at the time and overwhelmingly orange and brown tones, a decade where fashion and style was omitted, but now, today I look back at that time with nostalgia. These images give me a warm feeling and remind me of that time with all the warm colours in the images. As soon as I see one of these images I know exactly who took them.

In a world that can feel full of negativity, Josh's photos are full of positivity with their bright, vibrant colours and also a warm 'feel good' factor. Even the busier scenes exude calmness. Studying them gives you a lift - 'hey the world isn't such a bad place after all, it's actually quite nice out there...' Great photographs indeed!

I enjoy the work of Fan Ho and Trent Park immensely, but I tend to like B&W, but also the colour slides of 50's and 60's street photographers. I'm more of an urban landscape photographer where people are more incidental to the scenes of architecture. They give my images a sense of perspective and scale. Quite often without realising it I have created a narrative within my images that were more on a subconscious level rather than consciously created.

Josh's colour palette makes you feel warm all over.

We do get sold the idea that photographs should be vital, provocative, challenging etc. etc. but feelgood is equally legitimate as a message. I love these litle slices of normal - well, almost normal for that very reason. Those classic rail and travel posters from the 20's and 30's do it for me too. It's good to be taken to a cleaner more innocent place where you can just relax 🙂

They are beautiful photographs aren't they? I am a subscriber to Framelines and find it a refreshing channel to watch. Just great, unaffected photographers doing a great job. Thanks for sharing Alex. I hope you do more of the more recent photographers out there, thanks.

Hi Alex, nice to see the work of Josh Edgoose. He has a good eye for great compositions. Thanks for sharing his work. 😊

Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful photographer. I love the look of his photos with the lovely color palette and softness.

I absolutely love the photographs of Josh!

Yep, loving the tonality and palette of those images 👍📸

Hi Alex, thanks for making and posting this video and sharing some of Josh's impressive images with us. I look forward to seeing more from you - and from Josh - into the future.

Thanks for sharing.

It seems that Alex can add professional coffee waver to his resume 😅 Good video, Josh’s work is wonderful!

Wonderful, another new name to me. Thanks for the post.

That's honestly an amazing discovery for me today. I love his work.

These photos are great. They remind me of water colour paintings; not all but many of them.

Oh forget the colour palette, wonderful as it is - this is a photographer who _really_ understand composition.

Yeah he’s good. Thanks for showing this.

Thank you.

Very interesting. Quite a stimulating discussion. The work is beautiful 😊

I have followed Josh for a few years now on instagram and have a real appreciation for his photography😊 great feature for him!

The images remind me of the Kodachrome look which I really love, as my dad has boxes of Kodachrome slides, all reminders of an earlier time. I think Kodachrome has more red/orange, but it gives a similar vibe of the past.

Some of the photographs of Josh Edgoose have a real Norman Rockwell look to them in pastels. The classic moment, like the woman hanging clothes, a scene played out in all our lives, yet rendered gentle and timeless.

Great watch

Thanks for this one, Alex. I realized about halfway through the video that the look Josh Edgoose gets is slightly similar to where my own editing style has gone recently. It's almost as if instead of crushing blacks, he's crushing the range of colors, if that makes any sense at all. At any rate this has inspired me to attempt the look of Edgoose. I think by punching the blacks and whites, and decreasing contrast, I could at least get pretty close.

Lovely

I really enjoy the content on your channel, and i really connect. I once come across i few words ,that was look for the detail in your local area.

It would be interesting to have you discuss Josh's colour palette. Beautiful photographs.

Really interesting discussion of process, well illustrated, thanks

I visited his website. Felt like being in a candy store. Terrific.

I love your videos, Alex

Nice one!

Hi Alex, it is a great joy beginning my Sunday mornings with a lovely breakfast and your videos. I really like the way you point out how photographs feel and work, how the different styles differentiate or compare to one another. Mostly I got a feeling in the same way but I am lacking the words or probably the vocabulary to bring it to the point as you do. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and visions. And one more thought: last night I’ve been flicking through photos of a recent trip to Spain, but it is hard to make out the photos which resonate in me. First quite a number of those are the photos you’ve seen so many times. Second it is far easier, as you said, to find these scenes in the right conditions and light when you are exploring the same neighbourhood of yours over and over again. You have the chance to make a scene work for yourself which is far more difficult when travelling to other places. Have a great week, Thorsten

A good photographer is good anywhere in the world but it definitely helps if you are in London or another major city. It is true though that no matter where you are in the world that in your local area you should be able to take the best photographs possible as you know it so well. One just has to keep an open mind and a curiosity to dispel the feelings of mundanity that come with familiarity.

Another great video-except that coffee never goes in a mug! :)

Three comments, three different bots. RU-vid is getting worse by the day.

Wish I could afford his books. I love the color and the limited contrast he uses. Also, there are Cats. This is very important. 🙂

My approach to black and white urban photography is similar to your. I will include people at times, but they are just an element in the urban environment to me.

Only dead fish swim downstream! Keep facing the current and creating. Thank you.

You always present some interesting ideas! Thanks Alex! I really like Josh's photos. I wonder how he gets those filmic soft colors ??

Love the pastel (almost painterly) rendition of these images. I commented on another forum that we have to be brave in post production: brave enough to know when to stop. So much work is over-produced (imo), designed for impact rather than immersion. If photography is not good enough to draw us in, to reflect and consider, what's the point?

The low contrast look kind has the same feel like black 7 white does its relaxing. I do like photos with contrast also. Sometimes I'll make a few different edit of my images.

"People say there's nothing to photograph", yes; I agree with your suspicion that many people suffer from the problem of familiarity, wherein they see the things in their own area so often, that they don't credit them as being able to make an interesting photo. I know this well because I struggle against it myself, even though much of the world think I live somewhere fascinating in eternal antipodean delight. I enjoyed your review here of works by a less famous, less acclaimed but well competent photographer.

“…tube going over the Thames…” is a great atmospheric shot, but it isn’t the tube, it’s an SWR train 😉. But yeah, you can take fabulous photos on your doorstep. It’s an opportunity, perhaps even forces you, to be more creative, to see as well as look, to experiment. Interest can be found everywhere and anywhere. By all means experiment with the taken image. Josh’s colour palette makes me think of using an 81A/B/C warm-up filter in the days of film, or orange filter for b&w.

The world is not one genre ! You can specialize in one or more but please don't limit your potential creativity in photography. Every area of the planet is different, and it would be the wise person who tells the world through his / her photographs what they are.

Some of the pictures remind me of the illustrations from Fun With Dick and Jane and other books of that period. I adore the cotton candy aesthetic Yes, people bemoan "there is nothing to photograph". But you teach there always is 😊

Thank you for this insightful profile. I just take photographs within 2 km of my home. There are endless possibilities. @within2km

It has that “it” factor. The feeling you get when you know its a good photograph but it look plain. No disrespect to it being plain but that’s what makes it IT. Very Eggleston and Haas inspired.

Funny there was a sign saying underground. Here in America there was a camera store called Underground Camera. I think I still have a few of their lens for Minolta mount. I got this camera for my uncle when he passed away. They are not never good lens. They contracted other companies to make lens under their name.

There's a photographer that just walks around LA. As I'm sure most are aware, nobody walks in LA. Believe it or not, there are some quiet, off the beaten path residential neighborhoods of Los Angeles where there is not a lot of traffic. He picks them, drives there, walks around in the late afternoon and evening. Another guy photographs a lot in Vernon, an industrial and warehouse area, at night with some neat results. I think all of us have that tendency to dismiss the area in which we live as not being photo-worthy partially because we are used to it and don't really see things because (A) we are rushing about our day to day life and (B) we see stuff time and again so don't REALLY see it. Contrast that when we go on vacation and we are excited, wandering around here and there without the time worries we have at home and discovering things. The trick is to try to get in that vacation mindset at home to see what photos might be lurking around the corner. I dropped a relative off at the airport last year, and wound up in a neighborhood I hadn't really given any attention in the past. I poked around there and got some neat photos out of it. It turns out there was a little lumber mill tucked away there among other goodies tucked away at the end of residential streets that ended by the railroad track, who'd have guess right in the middle of the city? There is a television show in the USA and, like many television shows, is filmed in California. The show itself, though, is set on the East Coast but they don't like the expense of having to move the whole cast and crew back east to get location shots unless they really have to, so they have a set of people connected to that show whose job is to drive around Los Angeles to find spots that look east coast like. They found a surprising number of spots that could pass for the east coast with the right lighting, although perhaps someone actually from the east coast might spot the difference. The movie ET serves as a similar example. The subdivision that the family lives in is obviously SoCal but the adjacent forest is like one sees in NorCal or Oregon. Someone from back east might not even notice, but for someone that grew up in California it stands out like a sore thumb. That they appeared to be adjacent is the result of movie editing.

Excellent cerebral content as always. Is there an alternative version that doesn't include the ubiquitous coffee-containing vessel?

I’m very much an amateur. How does he make his photo’s look like they’re right out of the fifties. Back then it had a lot to do with the film. Thanks to those who know for any help you can provide.

I have a question, can Josh's style be called as retrofuturism? Photograph of recent times but feels like taken decades ago.

I’m not that familiar with London, having travelled there only a few times, but the Tube logo at 13:11 is orange - aren’t all of them red? Did Endgoose purposely process it differently, in order to align with his vision for that photo?

The phrase "getting it right out of camera" is an age old fallacy. Ansel Adams literally spend days in his darkroom creating the image that he saw in his mind. Often, he would make several differently edited prints before he was satisfied. Also, he would return to a negative after a considerable time, years perhaps and make another different interpretation of the image. regarding your "almost lithographic" monochromes, it's a style I aspire to. I once won a photo competition, actually the only one I have won and the only one I have entered. I was a member of a scuba diving club that ran a diving related photo competition. I entered a shot I took of my dive buddy exiting a small tunnel. He was backlit and carrying a dive lamp which created rays in the murky water. I also used a fill-in flash. The photo stood out amongst the rest of the entries purely because the light and shadow created a very dramatic scene. The rest of the entries were just record shots. I learned the lesson that light and shade are the prime elements of photography. It reminds me of something a famous landscape photographer once said - "Photograph the light, not the land". Thank you for another very interesting and inspiring video.

Well this is embarrassing. I was watching this and thinking "wow, I love this kind of photography, I should buy his book", and, er, turns out I already bought it 8 months ago 😑

accidentally Wes Anderson HDR low contrast

Not a bot. Alex is one of the best.. certainly the one I look forward to every week. He speaks as though he's a pal..

Wes Anderson-ish

Tea or hot chocolate???

I really like his work, but I'm not so keen on how he processes the photos to have a strong cyan and orange tone to the point that London buses are orange and not red. Still great images and a minor gripe.

Webb's image at 3:05 feels loud? What specifically? If anything, it's much more peaceful than the Edgoose image, which is a bit busy. Webb's composition is harmonious. Your eye travels around the image from left to right and back in a circular motion. The framing is very classical. The Edgoose image doesn't really have any order. There's a bit of layering but it's meaningless. There isn't a relationship between the figures other than their juxtaposition. Cutting off the guy's head on the left doesn't add anything to the image.

During thunderstorms I wish I had a ... 'bigger' view. But, generally, when I am not in a funk, I can find things around to photograph.