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Vidau
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Very good photo, especially with the difficulty of taking it with the camera and a bottle in handSomewhere in Manhattan today.
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Thanks Vidau. I needed the water today, it was hot out there! ;-)Very good photo, especially with the difficulty of taking it with the camera and a bottle in handSomewhere in Manhattan today.
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Excellent selfie KF. Love the lighting, composition, and PP. It reminds me of the feeling in a Hopper painting.Very good photo, especially with the difficulty of taking it with the camera and a bottle in handSomewhere in Manhattan today.
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Thanks Steve, I appreciate the feedback!Excellent selfie KF. Love the lighting, composition, and PP. It reminds me of the feeling in a Hopper painting.Very good photo, especially with the difficulty of taking it with the camera and a bottle in handSomewhere in Manhattan today.
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Also, the fellow on the right in the straw porkpie hat looks somewhat bizarre, probably because he is shaded and because of the reflection of the car behind him. I think this works to the advantage of your photo. And the lighting on the lady in that unusual dress is beautiful.Thanks Steve, I appreciate the feedback!Excellent selfie KF. Love the lighting, composition, and PP. It reminds me of the feeling in a Hopper painting.Very good photo, especially with the difficulty of taking it with the camera and a bottle in handSomewhere in Manhattan today.
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Yes, there was a reflection or window smudge right over his face, and a shadow. I tried to clean it up a little, but yeah, it is what it is. Thanks.Also, the fellow on the right in the straw porkpie hat looks somewhat bizarre, probably because he is shaded and because of the reflection of the car behind him. I think this works to the advantage of your photo. And the lighting on the lady in that unusual dress is beautiful.Thanks Steve, I appreciate the feedback!Excellent selfie KF. Love the lighting, composition, and PP. It reminds me of the feeling in a Hopper painting.Very good photo, especially with the difficulty of taking it with the camera and a bottle in handSomewhere in Manhattan today.
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Great shot.
Loved my oh too brief visit to NY last year. Going to make a return trip, hopefully next year, for a planned photo project.
Loved my oh too brief visit to NY last year. Going to make a return trip, hopefully next year, for a planned photo project.
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It's good, gives a convincing 1950s chrome feel with only the st*rb*cks glasses giving away it being contemporary. The modern car reflection somewhat spoils it though so if you have the same shot with it having passed it might work better.Somewhere in Manhattan today.
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The car was parked. Such is street photography.It's good, gives a convincing 1950s chrome feel with only the st*rb*cks glasses giving away it being contemporary. The modern car reflection somewhat spoils it though so if you have the same shot with it having passed it might work better.Somewhere in Manhattan today.
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Thank you!
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Thanks Dan, and good luck with your project!
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Pretty easy to remoive the reflection, it does distract from a good photo.The car was parked. Such is street photography.It's good, gives a convincing 1950s chrome feel with only the st*rb*cks glasses giving away it being contemporary. The modern car reflection somewhat spoils it though so if you have the same shot with it having passed it might work better.Somewhere in Manhattan today.
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I guess this comes down to personal philosophy. I could actually rent a shop or space, hire two models, set up lights, wardrobe, remove any distractions, pose them... and what would I be left with? What would be the point of that image? Would it be “street photography”? Whatever it would be, it most definitely would not be reality.Pretty easy to remoive the reflection, it does distract from a good photo.The car was parked. Such is street photography.It's good, gives a convincing 1950s chrome feel with only the st*rb*cks glasses giving away it being contemporary. The modern car reflection somewhat spoils it though so if you have the same shot with it having passed it might work better.Somewhere in Manhattan today.
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I like that I stumbled on this scene and noticed it, and it took place in a real time and a real place, and it has warts, and it’s not perfect, and that’s ok.
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Not this again.I guess this comes down to personal philosophy. I could actually rent a shop or space, hire two models, set up lights, wardrobe, remove any distractions, pose them... and what would I be left with? What would be the point of that image? Would it be “street photography”? Whatever it would be, it most definitely would not be reality.Pretty easy to remoive the reflection, it does distract from a good photo.The car was parked. Such is street photography.It's good, gives a convincing 1950s chrome feel with only the st*rb*cks glasses giving away it being contemporary. The modern car reflection somewhat spoils it though so if you have the same shot with it having passed it might work better.Somewhere in Manhattan today.
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So you are implying that an edited photo is the same thing as a staged one? Really?
So the great masters were not allowed to crop, dodge, and burn their prints in a darkroom, and modern street photographers are not allowed to use any of the tools of modern photography to fulfil the intent of their images? Is that a rule? Which philosophy is that?
I’ve got news for you: photography is NOT reality - especially street photography. If you are a street photographer, you take “reality” and create something different.
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Firstly, great shot with a little mystery vibe in the two people seated! If it were my shot, I might also check out how it might hold up as a b&w.I guess this comes down to personal philosophy. I could actually rent a shop or space, hire two models, set up lights, wardrobe, remove any distractions, pose them... and what would I be left with? What would be the point of that image? Would it be “street photography”? Whatever it would be, it most definitely would not be reality.Pretty easy to remoive the reflection, it does distract from a good photo.The car was parked. Such is street photography.It's good, gives a convincing 1950s chrome feel with only the st*rb*cks glasses giving away it being contemporary. The modern car reflection somewhat spoils it though so if you have the same shot with it having passed it might work better.Somewhere in Manhattan today.
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I like that I stumbled on this scene and noticed it, and it took place in a real time and a real place, and it has warts, and it’s not perfect, and that’s ok.
Secondly, 100% agree with you.
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Wouldn’t stripping a photo of color and converting to B&W contradict Joel’s philosophy of keeping with “reality” even more than simply removing a glaring highlight? And yours, in your belief in not changing after the fact what you’ve seen in the viewfinder?Firstly, great shot with a little mystery vibe in the two people seated! If it were my shot, I might also check out how it might hold up as a b&w.I guess this comes down to personal philosophy. I could actually rent a shop or space, hire two models, set up lights, wardrobe, remove any distractions, pose them... and what would I be left with? What would be the point of that image? Would it be “street photography”? Whatever it would be, it most definitely would not be reality.Pretty easy to remoive the reflection, it does distract from a good photo.The car was parked. Such is street photography.It's good, gives a convincing 1950s chrome feel with only the st*rb*cks glasses giving away it being contemporary. The modern car reflection somewhat spoils it though so if you have the same shot with it having passed it might work better.Somewhere in Manhattan today.
Instagram: @joeltunnah
I like that I stumbled on this scene and noticed it, and it took place in a real time and a real place, and it has warts, and it’s not perfect, and that’s ok.
Secondly, 100% agree with you.
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You’re very passionate about this topic Sam, I respect that. I’m not saying any of those things are inherently bad or wrong for you to do. I don’t make rules for other people. You do you, I’ll do me.Not this again.I guess this comes down to personal philosophy. I could actually rent a shop or space, hire two models, set up lights, wardrobe, remove any distractions, pose them... and what would I be left with? What would be the point of that image? Would it be “street photography”? Whatever it would be, it most definitely would not be reality.Pretty easy to remoive the reflection, it does distract from a good photo.The car was parked. Such is street photography.It's good, gives a convincing 1950s chrome feel with only the st*rb*cks glasses giving away it being contemporary. The modern car reflection somewhat spoils it though so if you have the same shot with it having passed it might work better.Somewhere in Manhattan today.
Instagram: @joeltunnah
So you are implying that an edited photo is the same thing as a staged one? Really?
So the great masters were not allowed to crop, dodge, and burn their prints in a darkroom, and modern street photographers are not allowed to use any of the tools of modern photography to fulfil the intent of their images? Is that a rule? Which philosophy is that?
I’ve got news for you: photography is NOT reality - especially street photography. If you are a street photographer, you take “reality” and create something different.
Some people were upset by Steve McCurry cloning people and things out of his photos, some couldn’t care less.
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