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Reply 1100

dd1989

I love the grainyness of the first and second pic.

Reply 1101

SMed

dd1989

I love the grainyness of the first and second pic.

That's the thing, they're not supposed to be. :p:

When I transferred the image to the iphone, itunes compresses it and it adds the grain. :rolleyes:

Reply 1102

dd1989

Yeah but it looks nice so shh :p:

Reply 1103

Magnanimity

SMed - love the first portrait and the ring ring one. I think they're awesome :biggrin:

Do the people in the pictures know you're taking photos of them? I'd love to do some urban photography stuff in the same vein as yours but I'm scared people will be freaked out by me :tongue:

Reply 1104

SMed

Thanks.

Sometimes they do know I'm taking their photo. These people didn't. I'm forever polishing my ninja skills. :biggrin:

I've never had any negative experiences with street photography.

I've learned to shoot from the hip, which is difficult and usually ends in failure. I also pretend to be shooting something else and rarely make eye contact. I also sometimes spray-and-pray. Another trick I do is to wear a rucksack backwards and rest the camera on tom of the bag. That way it keeps the camera steady and easier to frame than hip-shooting.

Some people use telephoto lenses and pick out targets from a distance, I prefer to get close and use a wider angle. I also find a good location and wait for the right person to come along, like in the above shots.

You still have to be careful and always be aware of your surroundings. Keep an eye out for who's around you. Try not to stay in the same place too long. I ask people sometimes too.

Reply 1105

dd1989

I took some photos ages ago from inside the car just playing around whilst my mum was driving, played around in photoshop and merged some of them in to one, think it looks quite cool and abstract.

Reply 1106

baby sexy

SMed

I haven't really been taking many shots for the past couple of months. But anyway, here are a few I had stored on my iphone (not taken with my phone), and it compresses the files quite a lot (very weird dotty grain). Some family stuff and a couple of my last street shots.

These were all taken with a 350D and 24-70mm f/2.8L.

I like some of them shots. I think the one second to last is my favorite. Did you know the guy who is in the shot? I'm a bit unsure about snapping strangers in the steet, I think I would get confronted, assault or my equipment smashed (or all three).

Edit - Question asked and answerd posts 1110 and 1111. :p:

Reply 1107

SMed

baby sexy

No I didn't know him. He did see me and I've got one where he's looking right at me too.

Street photography's easier in London in the summer; everyone thinks you're a tourist so don't really pay attention. :biggrin:

Reply 1108

Richie90

Two best ones from me:

Reply 1109

dd1989

^^ I keep meaning to do something with my train set at my dad's like that, it's really fun, has a childish charm about it :biggrin:

Reply 1110

SMed

Isn't that pseudo-tilt shift? Or is it real tilt shift? Or is it really a model? :biggrin:

Reply 1111

Richie90

SMed

Isn't that pseudo-tilt shift? Or is it real tilt shift? Or is it really a model? :biggrin:

Pseudo

for what i'd want out of it, it's really not worth investment in a TS lens!

Reply 1112

Steeps

dd1989

I took some photos ages ago from inside the car just playing around whilst my mum was driving, played around in photoshop and merged some of them in to one, think it looks quite cool and abstract.

Spoiler

Get a tripod and wedge it on the back seat :biggrin:

Reply 1113

dd1989

That windscreen needs a wash haha.

Reply 1114

dd1989

The main reason I went out that night....see all the hot pixels, that's mainly as a result of me playing in lightroom a little too much, there were some in the original RAW. I was testing to see if the noise filter actually worked, that was with it turned off, turne don there's no hot pixels at all.

Reply 1115

Steeps

I'd gone out because I was bored, thought I'd do some star trails but the "clear sky" was full of clouds by the time I'd got to location so I drove up and down the motorway a few times to kill the boredom.

Completely unprocessed, straight off the camera RAW: