Thread: Street - London 270113 (GRD3)

A few from a shoot this Sunday afternoon in the centre of London


Eyessssss...RIGHT!..check turn by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr


oh, 'allo deary by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr


Sorry, not hungry by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr


Mr Full Set 2 by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr


Mr Full Set by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr


Wrinkle Nose by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr


Graceful by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr


Direct Gaze by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr

I see you're keeping busy Pete. Keep up the good work.

Gary

Very nice shooting (and processing) Pete. Looks like you've changed your approach to more direct interaction with the subjects. It's working for you!

-Ray

thanks guys, appreciate it.

Ray, I guess I am moving on. LR4 is my procesing kit. I used to SFX everything to within an inch of its life.....I think I pretty much left it behind now. Nothing wrong with it....just changed my style. For some reason I had a revelation. Now I prefer to seek out eye contact at the optimum moment and I hand a card over. I take fewer shots too. I am comfy enough in my own skin to have some interaction with my subjects......never was before.


Thanks for stopping by.

pete

Peter, these are great! Having been there on the streets in London, I couldn't bring myself to stick a camera in anyone's face. I felt Londoners gave off a big "*** off" vibe. In India I have zero qualms about stopping people and asking them to pose for me, and I use the X100, which means they're standing still for quite a while before the darn camera decides to focus on their face. This set left me wanting to see more! Great stuff.

Originally Posted by Petach

thanks guys, appreciate it.

Ray, I guess I am moving on. LR4 is my procesing kit. I used to SFX everything to within an inch of its life.....I think I pretty much left it behind now. Nothing wrong with it....just changed my style. For some reason I had a revelation. Now I prefer to seek out eye contact at the optimum moment and I hand a card over. I take fewer shots too. I am comfy enough in my own skin to have some interaction with my subjects......never was before.


Thanks for stopping by.

pete

Well, you have to feel it for it to work, and you're clearly feeling it here. It's not what I'm after - I'm generally going for the moment without influencing the moment, which requires staying largely invisible. But sometimes I end up with more interaction than I was going for and I like a lot of those too. I'd be surprised if I ever adopt that as a regular intentional way of working - street portraiture is just a different thing than I'm after at this point. But never say never - someday I might. There's no right or wrong - just different approaches. Well, I actually find the highly confrontational Bruce Gilson "in your FACE" approach pretty offensive, but short of that, it's all good IMHO.

In any case, this is working brilliantly for you - I look forward to seeing more!

-Ray

Some interesting personalities coming through in those photos.

Originally Posted by Petach

thanks guys, appreciate it.

Ray, I guess I am moving on. LR4 is my procesing kit. I used to SFX everything to within an inch of its life.....I think I pretty much left it behind now. Nothing wrong with it....just changed my style. For some reason I had a revelation. Now I prefer to seek out eye contact at the optimum moment and I hand a card over. I take fewer shots too. I am comfy enough in my own skin to have some interaction with my subjects......never was before.


Thanks for stopping by.

pete

I have SFX. I looked at it and never really used it. I prefer to do everything by hand, sorta like the old dark room days. Whether it is good or bad, every image is unique and cannot exactly be replicated.

Gary

Originally Posted by Gary

I have SFX. I looked at it and never really used it. I prefer to do everything by hand, sorta like the old dark room days. Whether it is good or bad, every image is unique and cannot exactly be replicated.

Gary

Out of curiosity Gary, how is Silver Efex any different than Lightroom, Aperture, Photoshop, or any other program with editing capabilities in terms of whether an image is done "by hand" or not? All of them have tons of individual controls and sliders and options that you can adjust individually to your hearts content. All of them also allow you to group various settings into presets that allow you to have every image come out with some very similar look. But none of them force the use of presets or film simulations or any specific option they offer. Whether I'm just using Lightroom (or Aperture before I switched) or if I'm using Silver Efex Pro, sometimes I use one of a few presets as a starting point and then work "by hand" from there, other times I start with a totally neutral B&W image and start from scratch. Either way, something between most of it and all of it is done by hand, regardless of the program I'm using. In fact in Lightroom (or Aperture before), I was much more likely to rely on presets because I find the individual controls in LR more difficult to use to get what I want, particularly when it comes to specific areas in an image. I find the control points in the Nik products quicker and easier to use than the brushes in either Aperture or LR to do specific work to a specific area of an image. So sometimes I'll see if one of my LR presets works well with an image without any major changes, but if it needs more "by hand" work, that's when I'll move it over to Silver Efex...

How has your experience differed?

-Ray

very nice set. My favorite microbit from any of it is the disapproving glance nearly out of the frame of Mr. Full Set. But I really like them. The processing is dark and strong, but never overpowers the image.