Capture a stranger street style : Part 2

FishyFish said:
Thanks Lee. I don't think the picture would have been much without it.
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Ah but hardly any pictures would be much without "the decisive moment" and that's exactly what you caught,.. the decisive moment. (y)
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
Very nice candid street style shot Lee, with good timing. It wouldn't have worked nearly so well if the guys face wasn't covered by the brolly.
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Thank you George. I agree about his face being covered. I like that her face is turned away too. Leaves something to the imagination. :)
 
saltireblue said:
Counting the drops?
_DSF3347 by Malc Bernhard, on Flickr
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Very nice candid street style shot Malc, nicely composed with a good strong mono presentation.

"It's strange I've been doing a personal project for quite a while now called "Faceless" and both you & Lee @Merlin5 put in a Faceless type shot within a couple of posts etc"
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
Very nice candid street style shot Malc, nicely composed with a good strong mono presentation.

"It's strange I've been doing a personal project for quite a while now called "Faceless" and both you & Lee @Merlin5 put in a Faceless type shot within a couple of posts etc"
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Thanks very much, George.
Purely coincidental on my part, apart from that great (photographic) minds think alike... ;-)
 
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Hey Nige @FishyFish , back a while ago you posted a shot of an American Candy store in Oxford St (post 5186) and two or three posts later you mentioned that the prices on the American goods were insane. A couple of weeks or so back I passed that very same store and took some snaps but me being from the USA I wanted to compare some of the prices so I went in and asked. A Large box of breakfast cereal that we have back home is less that $1.00 but in that store a Small box of the very same was £7.50, as you say insane prices. However yesterday I wandered around Canterbury for a couple of hours and there is a new American Candy store opened there. The price of the Small box of the same breakfast cereal was £9.99, I'm not kidding you. Needless to say I didn't make a purchase.
 
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G.K.Jnr. said:
Hey Nige @FishyFish , back a while ago you posted a shot of an American Candy store in Oxford St (post 5186) and two or three posts later you mentioned that the prices on the American goods were insane. A couple of weeks or so back I passed that very same store and took some snaps but me being from the USA I wanted to compare some of the prices so I went in and asked. A Large box of breakfast cereal that we have back home is less that $1.00 but in that store a Small box of the very same was £7.50, as you say insane prices. However yesterday I wandered around Canterbury for a couple of hours and there is a new American Candy store opened there. The price of the Small box of the same breakfast cereal was £9.99, I'm not kidding you. Needless to say I didn't make a purchase.
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That's just crazy isn't it George. I can't see why these american food products are so expensive here. My local Tesco does a selection of american products such as that sponge cake called Twinkies and various candies, condiments, etc all at silly prices.
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
Hey Nige @FishyFish , back a while ago you posted a shot of an American Candy store in Oxford St (post 5186) and two or three posts later you mentioned that the prices on the American goods were insane. A couple of weeks or so back I passed that very same store and took some snaps but me being from the USA I wanted to compare some of the prices so I went in and asked. A Large box of breakfast cereal that we have back home is less that $1.00 but in that store a Small box of the very same was £7.50, as you say insane prices. However yesterday I wandered around Canterbury for a couple of hours and there is a new American Candy store opened there. The price of the Small box of the same breakfast cereal was £9.99, I'm not kidding you. Needless to say I didn't make a purchase.
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I know. You have to wonder how much of it they sell. I can only assume it's mostly bought by tourists.
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
Very nice set of candid street style shots Lee, gatecrashing another toggers shoot Tut, Tut, whatever next ? :) :)
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I know George, bit naughty I suppose. But the way I see it, whatever happens on the street is fair game for a street photographer to capture. :)
 
Merlin5 said:
I know George, bit naughty I suppose. But the way I see it, whatever happens on the street is fair game for a street photographer to capture. :)
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:) :) :)
 
Merlin5 said:
Great shots garry, particularly like the first one. (y)You've definitely got a consistent style. That's something I don't really have but need to develop as mine has a different look for every composition which is good and bad.
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Thanks, Lee. In fact, these shots and the other ones in the same album (The Soho Series) were inspired by the work of Joshua K Jackson. He has a great way of capturing the atmosphere of late-night Soho that I can't duplicate. But that's OK with me.

Merlin5 said:
Was in Threadneedle Street yesterday and noticed a shoot going on so I secretly gatecrashed it. :D
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I spotted the Bank of England in the background as soon as I saw the other (cheeky) photo in the Spotted a Togger thread. These are all good. You had a great light to work with and you captured it with excellence.
 
garryknight said:
Thanks, Lee. In fact, these shots and the other ones in the same album (The Soho Series) were inspired by the work of Joshua K Jackson. He has a great way of capturing the atmosphere of late-night Soho that I can't duplicate. But that's OK with me.



I spotted the Bank of England in the background as soon as I saw the other (cheeky) photo in the Spotted a Togger thread. These are all good. You had a great light to work with and you captured it with excellence.
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Thanks very much garry, Oh the light was lovely, it was just right. But I noticed that all my shots were at 800 ISO. When I got home, I found out that at some point during my fiddling around in the camera's settings that I had accidentally changed my minimum auto ISO from 100 to 800! So the exposures could have been better but it's not too bad.

Good call garry on Josh K Jackson! I love his photos. Yes your style is definitely like his. And he in turn is very much inspired by Saul Leiter's work.
 
garryknight said:
Thanks, Lee. In fact, these shots and the other ones in the same album (The Soho Series) were inspired by the work of Joshua K Jackson. He has a great way of capturing the atmosphere of late-night Soho that I can't duplicate. But that's OK with me.



I spotted the Bank of England in the background as soon as I saw the other (cheeky) photo in the Spotted a Togger thread. These are all good. You had a great light to work with and you captured it with excellence.
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Sean Tucker did a nice video about Joshua Jackson
 
Mountkeen said:
Sean Tucker did a nice video about Joshua Jackson
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Ah yeah, I've watched that a while back, good video. (y) He's quite matey with Josh K. There's also two or three very short videos, (Adobe presentations I think), showing Josh K demonstrating his basic processing style.
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
Another "Excellent" candid street style shot Lee, love the contrasty light and of course the mono presentation.
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Thanks George! I just quickly replaced the shot you quoted because I'd forgotten to spot remove a couple of distracting white bits on the wall. There was nice evening shadows on sunday so I took advantage of them. :)
 
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Merlin5 said:
When I got home, I found out that at some point during my fiddling around in the camera's settings that I had accidentally changed my minimum auto ISO from 100 to 800!.
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Yeah, I think we've all got that particular t-shirt! You don't want to make the mistake I did once, which was to change the ISO in the wrong direction, and end up on 25600 while shooting JPEGs, shortly after getting my second-hand Fuji X-E2. I then spent the rest of the day wondering why my photos looked weird on the screen! When I got them home, I realised what I'd done, but at the time I thought my LCD was on the blink,
 
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