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How many galleries do we have here at RFF ? several thousands ? I have no idea.
How many galleries I hapenned to view thanks to the opening page icons ? Something between 20 and 50, I do not know exactly. The last one I saw during some hour and half, made me jump from my chair, tongue out: compa Beniliam's "street stories":
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5364
Beniliam seems to have been blessed by many interacting qualities, like a strong compositional eye, quick camera reaction to the surroundings, an enviable sense of humor and sensitivity towards people, and, I am sure a great ability to communicate with his human subjects.
To all these, he has added his highly developed technique for street photography.
One of his "tricks" that I perceive, is that instead of trying to catch people unaware of him and his camera, sometimes he just waits for them to react and then he clicks his magic camera.
Now, it is not only his great inspiration, but also his great traspiration, roaming the streets at such a pace, shoe sellers can only be happy about. I know it as I happened to know pesonally two great street photographers. No other way, no shortcut, you have to walk and walk and walk for endless hours during your workday. It reminds me very much, when during my twenties I was selling encyclopaedias from door to door in Barcelona. You knock dozens and dozens of doors, staircases up and down, getting "NO !", while when the real opportunity appears then you must arrive to it in shape to be able to use it. But in street photography the awareness counts by miliseconds ! !
As I posted to Beniliam in my comments, some pics are undistinguishable from HCB work while others strongly remind no less than the great Andre Kertecz.
Lastly, like the great Argentinian Tango singer Carlos Gardel at his early career, when you hear him so happy about his strong and golden voice, that you hear him playing with tones as a circus virtuoso for his own delight, Beniliam seems to feel at the street so sure of himself that at some pics you feel him just throwing the camera to the air and clicking when it falls back to his hand.
This is the first time for me that upon seeing images through the computer I feel a strong desire to see them printed at big size in a non-virtual gallery.
Cheers,
Ruben
PS: comrade Shutterflower take note of this new type of thread.
How many galleries I hapenned to view thanks to the opening page icons ? Something between 20 and 50, I do not know exactly. The last one I saw during some hour and half, made me jump from my chair, tongue out: compa Beniliam's "street stories":
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5364
Beniliam seems to have been blessed by many interacting qualities, like a strong compositional eye, quick camera reaction to the surroundings, an enviable sense of humor and sensitivity towards people, and, I am sure a great ability to communicate with his human subjects.
To all these, he has added his highly developed technique for street photography.
One of his "tricks" that I perceive, is that instead of trying to catch people unaware of him and his camera, sometimes he just waits for them to react and then he clicks his magic camera.
Now, it is not only his great inspiration, but also his great traspiration, roaming the streets at such a pace, shoe sellers can only be happy about. I know it as I happened to know pesonally two great street photographers. No other way, no shortcut, you have to walk and walk and walk for endless hours during your workday. It reminds me very much, when during my twenties I was selling encyclopaedias from door to door in Barcelona. You knock dozens and dozens of doors, staircases up and down, getting "NO !", while when the real opportunity appears then you must arrive to it in shape to be able to use it. But in street photography the awareness counts by miliseconds ! !
As I posted to Beniliam in my comments, some pics are undistinguishable from HCB work while others strongly remind no less than the great Andre Kertecz.
Lastly, like the great Argentinian Tango singer Carlos Gardel at his early career, when you hear him so happy about his strong and golden voice, that you hear him playing with tones as a circus virtuoso for his own delight, Beniliam seems to feel at the street so sure of himself that at some pics you feel him just throwing the camera to the air and clicking when it falls back to his hand.
This is the first time for me that upon seeing images through the computer I feel a strong desire to see them printed at big size in a non-virtual gallery.
Cheers,
Ruben
PS: comrade Shutterflower take note of this new type of thread.
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