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Brian: Wonderful shot and timing! =)

Here are some of my shots, straight jpeg and no pp.
SUper newbie here and trying to learn the proper way of composition :)









 
Love the idea! It will give me a push to do a bit more street shooting :)
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what day would be best?
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A week from now?
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Brian Mosley wrote:

Thanks for sharing, maybe I'll post a weekly (or thereabouts) street shooting thread - anyone want to cover for me? what day would be best?

Cheers

Brian
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That's a great shot, Brian. It took me some moments to determine how many people actually were in that shot, and then to look at everything afterwards.

That would be a great party print (something for people to talk about).
 
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Harold66 said:
hello
well I guess there is street photography and street photography

While the m4/3 concept is , in theory, well adapted for street photography because of a reduced size versus a regular SLR , it is , at least in its present form , ill-suited to street snaps in many ways
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I agree, there are obvious improvements (snap focus, reduced shutter lag, brighter / articulating LCD, more prime lens options) which will come over time... but I do feel we're better off now with the available m4/3rds cams, than we were before.

Am I missing something?
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Hi Brian :)
How are you ?
if you mean that we are better off that we were 3 or 4 years ago , I would agree

I guess my point is that digital cameras have lots of advantages over film cameras for street photography ( possibility to change ISO after each image , possibility to review the shot, etc..) but that so far there are not many digital cameras which have fully exploited the possibilities

I think this is especially true of the m4/3 format. Because of its reduced format , the m4/3 should be leading the way for street photography and be the most able for the so-called " decisive moment" and force is to admit this is not

I think there is a huge demand for street photographers for such a camera and so far the m4/3 is not delivering
so far , only a few cameras can address this area rather well

the Leica M9 of course , although at a huge price tag , the Ricoh GR?GX series and to a lesser extent the Sigma DP's

these three options offer very different options but they all allow efficient manual focus and / or guess focusing

in my mind, a camera for which composing and focusing relies almost exclusively on the LCD does not qualify as a camera for street photography

at least , the Ep2 with its great EVF will allow to shoot " a la Rolleiflex" and offer high quality EVF
Harold

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Brian Mosley said:
It's always great to check out the wonderful image threads over there - some real artists in residence (and I mean true artists ;))
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but i used a GF1 for those...i posted there because i used an old Voigtlander lens...=-)
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hello everyone its my first thread here, and its rather daunting to post something, seeing how everyone else's pictures are superb.

only had my first camera in the form of G1 with kit lens since September, and my shutter count has already reached about 5000. crazy i know.

pictures were taken in sunny Singapore. all with 14-45mm Kit Lens.











hope you find these pictures acceptable.
 
I don't do it that much because the E-P1 kit zoom doesn't focus as well as I'd like and my MF 50mm macro is too long for discreet street shooting.

Here are some shots from St. Jean de Luz, done by prefocusing rather than letting the AF hunt around. The top one is a bit overexposed, as the E-P1 seems to want to do.



 
3, 8, and especially 4 (chess players) do it for me.

I'd like to see them with a little more emphasis on the depth of illusion rather than the surface (less "grain" (if that's the right term)) -- but that just my preference.
 
was downtown today for an errand and had the EP-1 with me (that is kind of the point of owning an EP-1: having it in the pocket) and snapped a few shots.

When uploading the images I realized I must have been where Ginnungagap is, the legendary emptyness. The absolute void, absence of everything. At all. The photos were taken in Sandvika, a small town near the Norwegian capital, but I guess timing is more important than location: Ginnungagap is in early december...





 
as I am learning, my DP2 may very well be better to manually focus than the Olympus E-P1 for street life shots. I don't understand why Olympus can't put a distance scale on the LCD when manually focusing.. been thinking about that since a while back with 4/3rds.

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