Germany, 29th August 2015
Germany, 29th August 2015
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Posts from the 'Streetphotography' Category
Gaze
Paris, April 2014
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Under The Influence: Bow Down To The Master
And of course, I have to bow down: I didn’t know the shot before, if I had I had probably never posted mine. There are so many things you can learn from studying great photos:
- the shoe in the upper right corner does the trick here: opens up the triangle onto which the composition is based.
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the vertical (the frame)/horizontal(the shadows, the direction of the walk) tension works great here
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keep an eye on you shadows, see, if there is actually something in there to add more interest
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contrast works better, the grain in the first image is distracting and gives the image an unclean look…
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is it only me, but the fashion in the 60ies was way cooler: most elegant ankle…
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cutting is an art, I am almost sexually aroused by the slip of skirt above the calf…
Fastest gun in the east, Winograd has laser-eyes to be able to spot all this and frame it right…
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We Don’t Fit In
We no longer fit in into the world. You would somehow think that we could try to change the world to make us feel more comfortable in it, but we failed to do that. Eventually, this feeling of uneasiness will fade: We just have to wait until we have adapted to the machines we have created.
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Not Too Bright, Not Too Dark
Valencia, April 2015
18% grey. This is what you’re camera is trying to achieve when you put it into any sort of automatic mode. Does not matter if it’s aperture, shutter-speed, if ISO is fixed or you allow it to float: The camera will always strive for something in the middle, not too bright, not too dark.
How do you think can something interesting come out of this? How many guys you met that were lukewarm actually managed to keep your interest for more than 2 minutes? Good looking, yes, maybe, but boring nevertheless. Not too many things, that are not too much of anything, too much darkness, too much light, way too fast or grinded to a screeching halt – nothing that is in the middle of everything ever came out interesting. And still, you tell your camera to do just that: Start something interesting with 18% grey. How’s that gonna work out?
Instead be brave, be bold, don’t shy away from underexposed pictures, blurry shadows, outblown highlights: Images can be faulty, as your vision is faulty, imperfect too. The emotion lurks in the shadow, love has to burn into you, pain is too dark to be bearable… And get out of automatic, damn.
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The Germans
Frankfurt, March 2015
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Valencia 2015
Leica M3, Summicron 50mm, Kodak Tri-X
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Back From Valencia
Just came back from Valencia, Spain. Spent the Easter-Weekend there with friends. The Easter-Processions were intense: Don’t know what’s it with me and religion – although I’ve lost my religion years ago, that ole catholicism still gets to me…
Brought my trusty Rx100 and the new, old (1955) Leica – probably screwed up all the Leica-Shots, as I did not knew, that you need to turn&lock the retractable lens, a 50mm Summicron. Packed only Kodak Tri-X. although Spain in Spring screams for color…. Exciting, so many new old things too learn, long way to go…
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Word Of Advice
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as judgment that the photograph is good.
— Gary Winogrand
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