I think Opening image is pretty good as it captures all the elements of a good street shot, but I really love the scooter capture...Well spotted and captured !
wildman said:
Thanks!
I always have the camera out when I have some free time or walking around London (say from my uni campus to the nearest tube station). That way I'm always ready and people around me can see I have a camera, therefore they can expect me to take photos. It's more attention grabbing if you're sitting there and suddenly pull a camera out. Getting over that fear of being judged is the biggest hurdle, but just throw yourself into it - you'll find that most people in the city don't care what you're doing. If you shoot with a frame of mind that you're getting caught, people will assume that you're up to no good! Whenever I get confronted (very rare, it's only happened once, most other interactions are just jokey, light hearted ones), I just say I was checking if my focus was working or seeing what the light was like. Although I actually have a project I'm working on now so I talk about that.
.. Far too much 'street' photography posted here (including mine) is just the 'point and hope' variety, which really dillutes the genre, IMHO :|..
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Lloyd, I like these, they're 'clever'
Nearly every frame has a 'hook' element to it, which makes the viewer (eventually) realise just what it was that the photogapher saw and why he (i.e. you) pushed the shutter button. That's just as it should be with this kind of candid photography
The themes of repetition, 'recognition' (of a particular focal point/situation) and pure documentation are the three that I see at work here.
Frankly, you deserve to own a Leica, if this is how you're going to use it
Very, very good work, IMO
demonicangelz said:
Fantastic news for me! I ordered some Diafine and Tri-X 400 last week (should arrive today) and I was really curious to know how much grain there would be if I pushed it to 1000 or 1250. Looking at your shots, the answer must be, "not much at all" .
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How long do you keep the film in solutions A and B for, Lloyd
The negatives will come out having a low contrast though (especially compared to using something like Rodinal), but it just gives you a lot of flexibility with setting a tone curve. I've been using the same solution for about 3 months now, I've put about 20 rolls through it. It looks quite dirty now (need to run it through some filter paper) but it's still working perfectly. I might buy a gallon kit soon as I'm starting to dev my film in larger batches haha.
Right now I'm quite inspired by Frank's The Americans, but that's quite hard to find right now for some reason. I go back to Snaps by Elliot Erwitt quite often, it's quite a good overview of his work, I think that's the book that taught me to spot visual hooks.
Diafine + Tri-X is amazing, even more so on medium format.
- half a gallon was 20 Euros and a full gallon, 27 Euros :shrug:.
