Diploneis, stunning series! My favorites are 3rd and 10th.
Ronny _Olsson, superb light.
OneAnt, your signature sets of images! I really loved 2nd one of 1st set.
Rodluvan, fantastic control of exposure.
rji2goleez, nice way unusual post-processing.
akul, superb work!
Taylor Sherman, like the 2nd one.
Its already been made into a book ...The Picture of Dorian Grayscale, where with each use the photographer gets uglier and uglier.
Its gotten too easy, I just sit there on a milk crate with a coffee, but I'm hooked ...and now I'm real ugly.
Can you believe it, this is a tiny city and so far I'm the only one to notice a bloody mirror.
Ant - Your art work raise the bar on this thread. Love the first one with shopping bag and the hand. Great timing, really.
Smridevan - Great to see your work again. D800 with 21 and 100 seem like a great fit. Hand stand shot is great. It makes it feel like she is really on the edge, but I truly hope that is just a visual trick. Very nice tone on all of them.
Thanks, Akul. Nice fall colors in your shots. I see the leaves have already peaked in NY.
As for the hand stand, she was literally next to the edge. I did not know her but she is young and brave. Her parents definitely would not approve.
Rodluvan wrote:
Make a book, calle it Mirrored City, and you can even include some of your kaleidoscope stuff as well. I'll have 10% for that, thank you very much.
Here's "mirrors of the poor southern suburbs". But get rid of that business style jacket, shoes are ok though, fits right in :-)
Seriously nice shots. #3 is amazing especially coming from a 35. I wonder how you do that, you're so close that it cant have been a silent moment.
wfrank wrote:
Seriously nice shots. #3 is amazing especially coming from a 35. I wonder how you do that, you're so close that it cant have been a silent moment.
Well, thanks Frank! But you've been pretty close as well with your 28 so this can't be all that foreign to you.
Very few of my photos are 'silent/candid'. I actually feel guilty when I don't give the subject at least a chance to see me. It's not a moral consideration at all, it's a consideration I feel I must do to push myself. Without the excitement it wouldn't be any fun (for me). This is also why the lenses have gotten shorter over the years, I started street using a 180mm lens then a 85, then 50, 35, 28 and even 21! Now, getting close is no longer the problem (or not _that_ much of a problem), being far enough back is though, as people don't tend to notice you if you're 0,5-1m away, but they do notice you if you're 2m away and are taking your time composing the shot! So, for now, I'm back in the 35mm region.
Also being to close has had a detrimental effect on my photography; I lose context.
wfrank wrote:
Here's "mirrors of the poor southern suburbs". But get rid of that business style jacket, shoes are ok though, fits right in :-)
Btw, it's funny you should reflect on this as it is something I've done as well. In rhetoric there's this thing called Ethos and in part that includes how you present yourself e.g. dress. People nowadays are very weary about strangers taking their photo (which is a paradox as we've never been surveilled as much as we are now). The way I dress can either increase or decrease this feeling. A side effect of this is that I'm very envious of women in this respect, I believe they have a lead coming out of the gates; they are seldom seen as hostile or creepy, they seldom pose a physical or cultural threat etc If I wanted to take a photo of a kid in a situation on the street, I'd think twice before doing so (I hate this aspect of current society), but a woman wouldn't be vilified to the same extent.
Why aren't more women into street photograhy??
Rodluvan wrote:
Btw, it's funny you should reflect on this as it is something I've done as well. In rhetoric there's this thing called Ethos and in part that includes how you present yourself e.g. dress. People nowadays are very weary about strangers taking their photo (which is a paradox as we've never been surveilled as much as we are now). The way I dress can either increase or decrease this feeling. A side effect of this is that I'm very envious of women in this respect, I believe they have a lead coming out of the gates; they are seldom seen as hostile or creepy, they seldom pose a physical or cultural threat etc If I wanted to take a photo of a kid in a situation on the street, I'd think twice before doing so (I hate this aspect of current society), but a woman wouldn't be vilified to the same extent....Show more →
You know those rubber chickens ...?
And you remember those fake dog leashes with just the dog collar ...?
Well I was thinking of fixing one of those leashes to my belt buckle and hanging a rubber chicken from it.
If you like I can make one for you.
Why aren't more women into street photograhy??
Dunno, do you think maybe the rubber chicken is too much.
Great images over the last few pages as usual, to mention a few:
dupaiphils and Rodluvans informal portraits are always great (and very different)
Proseps macros from the 100MP are impressing, the spiderweb is my favourite.
Diploneis fall scenery is pure magic, #3 is may favourite.
Ronny Olssons flowers just keep getting better.
OneAnts streets scenes always surprises, exentric lady in car my fav.
Bobs staged band shots are cool.
Smirdevan - lots of fresh air in your last set.
darbo - really great colours from the 1.4/35 and 2/25
akul - two great sets of fall colours, #1 in the first set my fav.
PictureThis - great simplicity and beautiful blues.
I´m familiarising myself to the wide angle view of my 2.8/21 this month, with the ambition to make one picture almost every day using only this lens. Thematically they might be inspired by akul´s urban images. Some results so far:
OneAnt, you are a superb observer!
Smridevan, details and colors of your images are awesome.
akul, another fine set.
darbo, excellent exposure and composition.
Picture This!, unusual take.
twoeye, superb set. 2nd one is my favorite.
