Some new street moments...

Hi Georges!

Looked through your gallery with a great interest and pleasure. Nice work! Your photos could take place of illustrations for the "Book of Life". When looking at one thought what was next. Got a good feeling and a slight smile on my face.
Thank you!

Kind regards,
Oleg Gusev
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http://picasaweb.google.com/sigmagus
 
All nice indeed.

Please let me vote for #0013 (I should have enjoyed #0090 and #6239 in B&W, as well as some of the jazz shots).
Thanks for sharing. Regards.
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Nacho Reina-Aguirre
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27349234@N02/ (please, all be merciful)
 
Nice to walk the streets of Lyon with Georges, as always. Carrying the 70-200 EX as a walkaround lens, no less! Thanks for taking us along...

Robert
 
Glad to see that you are out there making images on the street.

Some suggestions, though. I notice an awful lot of views of peoples backs, or people from the front obviously shot with long lenses.

Look at the best street work--Winogrand, Robert Frank, Cartier-Bresson and you will notice a couple of things. What really engages us in these images is there specificity. They are of real living unique individuals, full of emotions and intrigue. You cannot capture this from the rear. Views of backs are best suited for generic images like greeting cards, not serious street work.

Also, they best images are always shot with wide to normal lenses to give us the feeling that we are part of the scene, not viewing it through a telescope. That direct, feel-like-I-am-there element is crucial to involving the viewer.

So the hard part about street work is standing there, right there in front of your subject, looking at their faces and not flinching to make the shot. A small non-obtrusive camera like the dp-1 is great for this. Or, of course you could be like the greats mentioned above and use a Leica rangefinder, though I think a good deal of the greats would be taken with the dp-1 if they were still around. Leave the long lenses and big cameras at home, they only make people suspicious. Shoot lots of shots. It takes considerable guts, and practice, and patience.

Also, like any photography, the light, and background are crucial. You seem to have a good sense of that so you are off to a solid start.

Sorry to sound critical, but I think you may benefit from some study of the classic images that work in the genre. Good work is never easy, though in this discipline it always looks like it was (until you try it yourself).

Best wishes.
 
Georges, the first two are wonderful, subtle shots -- and with a joy.

There are so many others.

You are sharing with us a thinking of the eyes, of the heart as I know you wish to.

There is more in this gallery that we can take at once, and so, it will be a further treat, to return as the fox teaches in Le Petit Prince, to come a little farther in our patience to befriend.

Well, you know the thanks, and you can imagine well I think, the smile.

Best regards, Georges,
Clive
--Among so many others! :o)

http://www.pbase.com/ianvermeer/people__somebody_someplace

Thank you very much for the visit! :^}

Kind regards,
Georges

'On ne peint pas qu'avec la couleur, on peint avec le sentiment.'
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

http://pbase.com/ianvermeer
 
Cheers,
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larryj

If you can see the light, you can photograph it
Quote from Myron Woods
 
....comme toujours...! ! !

The SD14 does very well at 400 ISO as your photos show. I hope you do a 2nd book; your first book, which I have, is so nice and a real inspiration.

Can you tell me a few "secrets" of your shooting technique?
1. white balance, custom all the time?
2. processing, SPP only, or another progam afterwards?
3. anything else?

Time to go out with my 70-200 once again !
 
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Thank you very much for your kind words! :^}

I use very often AWB. Customed WB when I make picture of painting for restoration, or work in studio. Firmware 1.05 (colours are better, no problem with blinking).
I correct WB if necessary when I process with SPP.

After some work with PS CS3 if the picture is less than my first feeling when I catched it. I never look at some numbers, the eyes have always the final word!

A second book is going well, with a Swiss publisher, in association with two other photographers.
A third is going also in Italy (Torino).
Another in some monthes with a photographer in and about Grenoble.
Two exhibitions in near future.

Kind regards,
Georges

'On ne peint pas qu'avec la couleur, on peint avec le sentiment.'
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

http://pbase.com/ianvermeer
 
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Thank you very much, Oleg! :^}
I am very happy of this smile! It makes that my time was not too badly used! :o)

Kind regards,
Georges

'On ne peint pas qu'avec la couleur, on peint avec le sentiment.'
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

http://pbase.com/ianvermeer
 
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Thank you very much, Robert! :^}

70-200 is lighter than 50-500, more luminous, especially in the gray dark winter days, sharp.

Kind regards,
Georges

'On ne peint pas qu'avec la couleur, on peint avec le sentiment.'
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

http://pbase.com/ianvermeer
 
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Thank you very much for these good advices.

I also hold those of Vermeer, Alexandre Calame, Turner, Leonard de Vinci, Rembrandt, Georges de la Tour and many others else, the enumeration of which would be boring! :^}

Kind regards,
Georges

'On ne peint pas qu'avec la couleur, on peint avec le sentiment.'
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

http://pbase.com/ianvermeer
 
--The words of the fox: "apprivoise-moi!" are very beautiful an d so right.

Thank you very much, Clive, for the friendly words! :^}

Kind regards,
Georges

'On ne peint pas qu'avec la couleur, on peint avec le sentiment.'
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

http://pbase.com/ianvermeer
 
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Thank you very much, Vitée! :^}

Each morning, 8 to 15 kms by walking (good for the restored heart) and taking 200 to 400 pictures. The city is a horn of plenty for the eyes (with a lot of attention and concentration).

Kind regards,
Georges

'On ne peint pas qu'avec la couleur, on peint avec le sentiment.'
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

http://pbase.com/ianvermeer
 
Yes. 'Tame me'. It is a beautiful and profound thought in English as well.

Speaking to who we best are, as we live the most, one might feel...

Regards, Georges,
Clive
--The words of the fox: "apprivoise-moi!" are very beautiful an d so
right.

Thank you very much, Clive, for the friendly words! :^}

Kind regards,
Georges

'On ne peint pas qu'avec la couleur, on peint avec le sentiment.'
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

http://pbase.com/ianvermeer
 

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