Street Photography (not skiing related)

BrothsTopaz

BrothsTopaz

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Got into street photography around the Detroit area and looking to expand. This could go into media & arts forum, but it has nothing to do with skiing. Who else out there is into street photography as well? Here's my Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/plaqtaa/

Yeah, I'm kind of promoting my photos, but gotta start somewhere. Become passionate about photography in the past year and want to share my work. If anyone is around the Detroit area and want's to tag along, DM me.

Thanks!
 
13654903:BrothsTopaz said:
Canon t5i

18-55mm canon f/5.6-22
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right on! keep it up man.

btw if you're ever curious about film, I highly recommend it. there might be kinda a learning curve coming from digital, but there's nothing like shooting true B&W film on an old pentax k-1000.
 
13654939:RICK_ROSS said:
clicked on this to talk shit, but your feed is pretty impressive dude, keep it up.
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Honestly had the same idea when creating this post. Just thought I'd give it a try. Thanks for the positive feedback!
 
There are people way better then you in M&A and they don't make threads. You use way too many hashtags and your editing is off, it looks like angry Instagram filters have been applied for the sake of it and not to complement the picture.

Also street photographers don't use dslrs.

And yes my vagina is a sandy pit.
 
what I find with street photography is that I want the photo to tell a story. Oh you photographed a building? That's fucking great. It's boring. Where as the photo of the old black vet was cool and so was the musician.
 
13654997:RICK_ROSS said:
um no? like the most incorrect thing i've read all day.
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A LEICA, FIFTY AND TRI-X is street and all you need.

If it was good enough for Henri, it's good enough for me.

You are underexposed in M&A memes, push your D-76.
 
13654999:Abu-Baghdadi said:
what I find with street photography is that I want the photo to tell a story. Oh you photographed a building
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Street photography is just something I love to shoot. But it's not all I love to capture. I like anything raw, urban and gritty.
 
13654995:Laurent. said:
There are people way better then you in M&A and they don't make threads. You use way too many hashtags and your editing is off

Also street photographers don't use dslrs
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Haha, I don't use filters. I use Lightroom. Also, everyone has their own editing preference and I'm actually still trying to find an editing style I like. I treat every photo differently as every photo has potential with various editing styles. As for the dslr comment, i don't know if that was a joke or not, but if you're saying I'm not the old fashioned photographer/hipster today type of photographer, then I don't know what else to say. Every photographer is different. It's all preference. That's why it's called ART!! Haha
 
13655023:Laurent. said:
A LEICA, FIFTY AND TRI-X is street and all you need.

If it was good enough for Henri, it's good enough for me.

You are underexposed in M&A memes, push your D-76.
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dude wut. or a fucking dslr and replace all of those. go back to your holga where you belong artsy fuck.
 
13655762:RICK_ROSS said:
dude wut. or a fucking dslr and replace all of those. go back to your holga where you belong artsy fuck.
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Implying you can recreate Leica glow with your dslr.

Lel no.
 
13655049:BrothsTopaz said:
Street photography is just something I love to shoot. But it's not all I love to capture. I like anything raw, urban and gritty.
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Those are nice. But man, get out to the Heidelberg Project. Or out on the isle. Those are some detroits most iconic places especially for gritty photography.
 
13655804:Lonely said:
Those are nice. But man, get out to the Heidelberg Project. Or out on the isle. Those are some detroits most iconic places especially for gritty photography.
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I'm trying to go to those places within the next few weeks. There's an iconic prison at 5 and beck I'm gonna check out, go inside the old Detroit train station, and try and find some urban shots in the housing areas.
 
Expected much worse considering you called your lens an f/5.6-22 but it's not too bad. What do you have against blacks though? Stop crushing them so hard
 
Yo! Cool to see other people interested in street photography on NS. I barley shot at all this winter as all free time pretty much went to skiing but I'm stoked to get back at it this summer! I'll be posting stuff on insta @lorindaughton
 
13656193:erikK said:
Expected much worse considering you called your lens an f/5.6-22 but it's not too bad. What do you have against blacks though? Stop crushing them so hard
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I realized that after I typed but never made the adjustment haha. My bad. I meant to type

F/3.5-5.6
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BC0qLakBWn7/

The one I liked the most, but I don`t know about the others, feel like you are not actually focusing anything correctly.

I think that you either photograph architecture and the environment or you picture people, but you are not doing neither of those correctly. The man made geometry is cool too because you focus on the architecture and the lines right, but when you are taking a pic of the guy in the bike what can you say about that picture "there are bikers in detroit"?? "he is going fast"??? there is nothing interesting, but maybe if you shoot the face of the biker we could say something about him, or you can focus on the architecture and let the biker be just a secondary object.

Don`t take it badly, I'm not an expert or anything but thats what I feel about some of your pics.
 
I was going to say "Didn't people used to get really good at photography before blasting their photography page" But I've seen some of those "photographer" girls on there.

From the sounds of things you just started. Especially with not even have covered the city to well yet. Idk, give it time. Don't stop taking pictures but chill on the whole "Yo dawg I'm a street photographer check out my page".
 
I like to think of my photography as street photography but walking along hiking trails.

Best thing I ever did for my photography was buy a nifty fifty lens. Cheap, sharp and fast as fuck.
 
13654995:Laurent. said:
There are people way better then you in M&A and they don't make threads. You use way too many hashtags and your editing is off, it looks like angry Instagram filters have been applied for the sake of it and not to complement the picture.

Also street photographers don't use dslrs.

And yes my vagina is a sandy pit.
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1. A majority of his photos are better composed and of more interest than any of the ones you shot on your film cameras on your website I got bored looking at yours by the third one.

2. You use like 25 on each of your pictures dont be a hipstercrite I mean hypocrite.

3. Lol, I bet if we go out on the street 8/10 I could fire my dslr from at belly level know my framing my acceptable focus range as well as if i am properly exposed or under exposed without looking down at the camera. There's a funny thing where if you understand the rules of shooting on film it makes shooting with a dslr a cake walk. I would much rather not miss a shot having a fast fps buffer and not have to spend money on film any longer with the sacrifice of pretty grain and natural film glow.

13655051:BrothsTopaz said:
Haha, I don't use filters. I use Lightroom. Also, everyone has their own editing preference and I'm actually still trying to find an editing style I like. I treat every photo differently as every photo has potential with various editing styles. As for the dslr comment, i don't know if that was a joke or not, but if you're saying I'm not the old fashioned photographer/hipster today type of photographer, then I don't know what else to say. Every photographer is different. It's all preference. That's why it's called ART!! Haha
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Since you have a variable lens take a look at some videos about pre focusing and knowing your distances so you can quickly fire and for example know that anything between 6ft and 20ft will be in sharp focus then for your stationary shots look into properly focusing into your frame to keep focus from front to back, it will be a combo of your aperture available light and where you focus in the frame I find usually a 3rd way up on live view works decent foreground sharp but if the background isn't you stop down your fstop till you find that middle ground, if you can't nail the focus you may have to take two or three pics at different focus points then merge them with gradients in PS. dont go below f14 on that lens or you get some gross diffraction which may contribute to the "soft" look people have mentioned. As for your creative editing look learn about luminosity masking it gives you far superior control of each different tonal light range in your picture, so you can manipulate a finer selection of the pic without bleed through to other elements. Also on your waveform monitor keep your blacks no lower than 5-7 on your ire scale and no higher than 90-95 on your whites its a term called legality it makes it so the blacks dont crush and the whites dont blow out when viewed on different source monitors. Hope maybe some of that helped! I agree you did kind of shamelessly promote but you seem to be heading in the right direction
 
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