First shots with my X-Pro2

I just took the camera out into Soho, NYC and took some shots and played with the settings. So happy with the performance and the black and white Acros shots look great if you bump up the highlights and shadow contrasts. A nice inky result that reminds me of film.
Wondering what you guys think of the shots. I am trying to improve my photography.

really good shots you got yourself there

fpoint1 said:

https://imgur.com/a/QyK35

I just took the camera out into Soho, NYC and took some shots and played with the settings. So happy with the performance and the black and white Acros shots look great if you bump up the highlights and shadow contrasts. A nice inky result that reminds me of film.

Wondering what you guys think of the shots. I am trying to improve my photography.

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These shots look OK technically, but from a composition point of view they lack a focal point for the image - either a person/group, or a particular feature of the surroundings, or a strong graphical symmetry and perspective.

As a result there is nowhere for the eye to go initially, always a good idea for street shots otherwise they can look a bit flat.

Also, try changing camera elevation for low and high viewpoints.

Try and contain this focal point with some context but not too much distracting detail. A good example would be something like this girl's photostream of a downtown location...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/noirchick73/page1

My motto these days is shoot less and walk further. It doesn't matter if you only get a few shots as long as they're good, but searching for those shots is time consuming.

Always worth searching through Flickr to find something you really like and then figure out how to do something similar.

Good advice.

Too often the category "street photography" is applied to any random composition of random urban events. Which I suppose is technically true, but doesn't make the image appear anything less random.

Nothing against the OP. We can all learn a lot from being perhaps a little more selective and self-critical.

Nicely processed shots. I agree about the inky balcks.

Hey I like these! They work for me. I see two categories of 'street photography'. The more story-telling art kind, and the more landscape type. I think these are more the latter and therefore the technical qualities and processing works well. (this is somewhat in reply to the C&C).

How did you process the color shot? And what Acros filter did you use?