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City life….
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A few from Dublin city centre one day at lunch time…!!! Some I like more than others.. All shot with 5D2 and 70-200 F4L IS….
Sometimes I’m not sure about shooting people who are obviously in need of help. I try and give something if I can, especially if they appear in an image of mine.
Thanks for looking
Richie
Not too bad actually, better than what you usually see posted anyway, although none really stand out. Some look a little over cooked, and it takes away somewhat, but that just me, others like that approach I know. The decent compositions saves most of them however. As for photographing homeless people, I have a thing about that. But I am going to start a thread about it, so I’ll vent on that issue there. Overall opinion, a decent set, if lacking something a bit different. Keep it up.
Thanks for the comments guys. A feel of ‘City Life’ is what I am after and as such is a work in progress. Street photography is something I love to look at but am still slightly nervous about….
Steveb…. thanks for your comments…. I try to compose my shots carefully in camera and generally wait for someone to move into postion in a frame rather than shoot and crop later. Where possible I also tried to locate these images by including something that is familiar to its location… boardwalk, ha’penny bridge etc etc…. As for the overcooking could you elaborate? You mean the dodging and burning? I try to make my blacks black and my whites white without loosing much detail etc etc. I like a really good contrasty feel to my images. As for the homeless people remark… I’m not sure I did shoot a homeless person..! Regardless I spoke with him and gave him enough money for a decent lunch. I’m not one to shoot and run. I’ve read your other thread over in the General Photography section. Its an interesting debate and I know I sit on the sympathetic side of the fence but only where there’s an obvious ‘hit and run’ style photograph or where the photographer has photographed a person in a compromising state (regardless of their wealth or situation). If permission was sought and given to take and use a photograph then I dont see any problem. I’m not sure its any different to documentary journalistic style photography showing for example somebody grieving a loved one (like in the PPAI Photojournalism Exhibition 2011 http://www.photographers.ie/2011/02/category-winners-and-the-ppai-photojournalism-exhibition-2011/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;)…. Regardless yes its an edgy issue…!
Anyway thanks for the comments….. and yes I’ll try to “Keep it up”…! A little condescending dont you think…?
Richie
I do like the first photo. Stark. And I really particularly like no 3. There’s such a lot going on in the shot, plenty of energy. If I had one negative comment it would be that the two men talking could have be shot more to the right of the frame as the woman looking at the dog is a particularly good image – in my humble opinion, and then I ask myself how many do I get right!? Thats the shot I’d like to have seen – she’s really not keen on that dog!
I’d say well done to you.
Nice set Richie. I like the contrasty look about them and find the composition ideal for all bar the guy with the walking stick on the bridge shot. But all have some feature that makes the image appealing. I’m not getting to the “photographing people of a disposition” argument – life’s too short.
Yeah, good to see you taking up this street photography lark. :-)Alan
Good shots Richie, 1 and 6 I think are the best, I particularly like the geometry in the first one, I think you could probably add a bit more contrast to them if possible, maybe its just my monitor (any excuse), what iso were you shooting at ?
Anyway thanks for the comments….. and yes I’ll try to “Keep it up”…! A little condescending dont you think…?
Well it wasn’t meant to be.
By overcooked I mean the contrast is a tad too high.
By overcooked I mean the contrast is a tad too high.
Funnily enough I like the sort of shots you speak of. They generally make images ageless and less of the “digital camera” look. Vivian Maier was a photographer that’s been referred to here regularly and she had the sort of look that has detail but a nice softness about them too – grey & greyer. They all work for a selected audience.
Alan.
I really like number 1, well spotted location. Would actually have slowed the shutter speed a bit, and perhaps crop the door and pillar out. Keeping it clean while getting some action.
I allowed my self to take a swing at it. Hope thats ok, else please let me know and I will take it down asap.
I have an issue with 2 as well. I would only very rarely photograph a homeless and thats if there is something truly unique to capture.
Though, photographers have the right.I like 3, would have tried to get close to the guy with the dog, but the dof does separate them. Nice.
I like no 4 ,the chap struggling across the bridge, his face/body gesture is wonderful
They generally make images ageless and less of the “digital camera” look
well then shoot on film, digital is digital and will always look digital either embrace and work with it or change. I’ve seen thousands of photo’s on the web taken digitally that have then been manipulated to look like film and I really cant understand why, if you want the “film look” go buy a roll of film and some chemicals.
rant over, I think the 4th image is the strongest of the set.
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