Color Street Photography

motorized Nikon F3P
Vivitar 135mm 2.3 AI'ed manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
2.8 @ 1/500th
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motorized Nikon FA
Vivitar 135 2.3 AI'ed manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
2.3 @1/4000th
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Soft focus but I like it. This girl's got a story to tell...

Soft focus but I like it. This girl's got a story to tell...

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Hsg said:
Thanks. I was using a P&S so I raised my hand. If I had shot it eye level with a viewfinder it wouldn't have worked.
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The best camera is the one you have in your hands when you need to make a photograph. Love the lines leading to the red hat and the circles. The balance of the one on the right (mural in B/G) and the starbucks sign left and then all the faces seen and the one blocked.
 
airfrogusmc said:
The best camera is the one you have in your hands when you need to make a photograph. Love the lines leading to the red hat and the circles. The balance of the one on the right (mural in B/G) and the starbucks sign left and then all the faces seen and the one blocked.
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For me color street photography means that colors are the subject - not simply shooting in 'color', that anybody can do.

And since color is the subject, the white balance should be correct, the contrast should be just right and colors should not look too saturated or under saturated.

This kind of shooting is very difficult, that is why I only post one image at a time.
 
Hsg said:
For me color street photography means that colors are the subject - not simply shooting in 'color', that anybody can do.

And since color is the subject, the white balance should be correct, the contrast should be just right and colors should not look too saturated or under saturated.

This kind of shooting is very difficult, that is why I only post one image at a time.
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Exactly.

Shooting color photography, and viewing color photography, is a discipline.
 
Hsg said:
For me color street photography means that colors are the subject - not simply shooting in 'color', that anybody can do.

And since color is the subject, the white balance should be correct, the contrast should be just right and colors should not look too saturated or under saturated.

This kind of shooting is very difficult, that is why I only post one image at a time.
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I disagree with your statement .
I only shoot colour slide film because I learned photography by doing so, and after almost 40 years feel at home using it, and love the way my projected slides look.
From time to time colour may in fact be my subject, but most of the time it is not. The people and/or situations captured are the subjects and while colour might enhance, or be central to the theme, more often than not the colours are immaterial. And to that end some of my photos are left in colour and others may be converted to black and white.
As for anyone being able to shoot in colour, I agree that is true. However not everyone can do it well. And therein lies the difference.
 
Hsg said:
For me color street photography means that colors are the subject - not simply shooting in 'color', that anybody can do.

And since color is the subject, the white balance should be correct, the contrast should be just right and colors should not look too saturated or under saturated.

This kind of shooting is very difficult, that is why I only post one image at a time.
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Yes color is difficult to do well. So is B&W. They are just different. I shoot mostly color all week, usually with very deliberate color in mind. Art directors will say something like triadic primary color scheme with low key type lighting. When I am shooting for me, at this point in time, (wasn't always the case) I prefer B&W but love good color work from others and have been enjoying your work.
 
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I can agree to that where color has a purpose. If it is used well and as a subject then it makes sense.

What if the picture tells a story and I documented it with the intention of showing EXACTLY how I saw it which is in color?
 
rbsinto said:
I disagree with your statement ...
From time to time colour may in fact be my subject, but most of the time it is not. The people and/or situations captured are the subjects and while colour might enhance, or be central to the theme, more often than not the colours are immaterial...
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what's quoted sums up my view, thank's
the world happens to come in colors


Untitled by Andreas, on Flickr, OM Zuiko 2.8/24, Sony A7
 
There is a huge gap between "photography in color" and "color photography as a concept, an art form"

It seems hard for some people to make the difference.
 
Ned Bojic said:
It seems hard for some people to make the difference.
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Yes, that is clear as 99,9% of all photography is in color.

Most of the time the color in a photograph is boring, except when the color is the subject of the color photograph. But when is the color the subject? Only in a very few occasions, 0,1%. So it would be better if 99,9% of all photography was in B+W.

Color in photography is often boring because the photographer gets it for free.


Erik.
 
Ned Bojic said:
There is a huge gap between "photography in color" and "color photography as a concept, an art form"

It seems hard for some people to make the difference.
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no doubt, certainly agree with the first sentence, feel no concern for the second. thread is called and talk has been about 'color street photography' where I consider 'street photography' as main.

Untitled by Andreas, on Flickr, another 'very fresh' one with OM Zuiko 2.8/24 on Sony A7
 
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