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Grafton Street Musician.
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A couple from Grafton Street yesterday. This guy was a pleasure to listen to. Absolutely superb!
Shot with a 50mm & at 1600 ISO. I like the noise in street photography. I think it brings a more realistic feel to the scene?
2nd one for me. Nice shot. Though I think there may be a bit too much noise in it as the noise was the first thing I noticed and not the image itself.
Mark S.
If i had to chose i prefer the first one. It feels more street, which is what I prefer. The second one has been taken a million times, and also looks claustrophobic, there isnt enough space around the guy, he feels squashed into the frame..
Not sure about the processing either. Its obviously daytime but they are overly grainy from either super high ISO or purposefully added grain. I love a bit of grain and Manos even says that “grain is the photographers brush stroke”, but only in the right situation. In a moody, dark or highly charged scene grain can add to the effect, but in a scene like this, day time, peaceful, lots of light, nothing particular happening that makes the scene striking, grain detracts a lot & just looks like you forgot to turn the ISO down and are now suffering the consequences.
DOF in the first is a little off to my eye, guitar head is in focus but musicians head is not, maybe thats an stylistic choice, but for me that doesnt work.
The lady staring at the musician is the most interesting item in the scene, she has a good expression but again, shes not in focus, a deeper DOF would have helped here.
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