[bbluesman]

Out in public...No shame..I was like 4 feet away and took three snaps and they never even noticed me....:thinking:



Talk about a mobile food station...

Wow that chica in pink is pretty hot. Like that shot best. Those tortas look pretty awesome too. Keep bringing me LA street life hermano

[impact]

[bbluesman]

1st-Impact I really liked image #2. Good edge and always like Vespas. Smoking looks cool even though it's terrible for you-go figure.

These were street images taken from Taichung Botanical Garden during early AM exercise time. Still getting used to my 50's(Pentax and Ricoh) liking them in different ways.

[SteveM]

Can I ask what you used for those shots?...they really stand out.

[impact]

Thanks. There are two major things I do that make the subjects stand out.

1) The shooting phase:

I almost always use as large aperture as possible to get shallow depth of field. I also try to get close to the subjects, but leave enough distance between them and the background for that nice out-of-focus blur.

2) Post-processing.

I shoot raw and load the files in Rawtherapee afterwards. Then I manipulate the curves tool and changed the straight line to an S-shaped one, which increases contrast and saturation.

Then I check the shadows/highlights warning and if I see some areas that are too dark or too bright, I use the shadow and highlight compensation to bring them back. I like the shadows at about 4-5, anymore and they start looking unnatural to me. I guess I like dark shadows. Highlights I usually pull back a lot more, the slider usually ends up somewhere around 50-60.

The basic settings look like this:



I rarely adjust other values in the topmost part of the menu.

Then I quickly go over the other tabs, usually to desaturate the colors a bit and tweak the white balance if needed.

[jgredline]

Dirty Looks..


The reason these Illegal DVD's are on a blanket is so that when the police come, they quickly close up the blanket and run into the subway..I saw this first hand...


So many things.

[jgredline]

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

Some more with the DA15ltd, my new street fav' lens.


(the only shot I managed to get flare on so far with this lens)









Parallell to the DA15ltd on the K20D I'm currently shooting a lot with the Program A + SMC Pentax-M 24-35mm f4, but it will take some time to get the film processes and scanned.

[Nesster]

Holy crap, this here thread's gone up a couple of notches while I've not looked in... Bravo folks, there's a lot of excellent photography going on.

This one's not so great, a bus had just disgorged dozens of old ladies going to the Stop & Shop...



1957 Minolta A-2 rangefinder, generic ASA 200 film.

[K-9]

This one's a classic capture.

[bbluesman]

Some more with the DA15ltd, my new street fav' lens.



Parallell to the DA15ltd on the K20D I'm currently shooting a lot with the Program A + SMC Pentax-M 24-35mm f4, but it will take some time to get the film processes and scanned.

So glad to see some more of your street stuff here. Brilliant.

[jgredline]

Douglas, I am indeed one of your biggest fans...I love your work and now you have the lens I have been pondering and dreaming about! Great work as always!

[jgredline]

This one's a classic capture.

Thank you. That picture is actually my favorite that I have made in the past few months, but do not know why.

[jgredline]

Holy crap, this here thread's gone up a couple of notches while I've not looked in... Bravo folks, there's a lot of excellent photography going on.

This one's not so great, a bus had just disgorged dozens of old ladies going to the Stop & Shop...



1957 Minolta A-2 rangefinder, generic ASA 200 film.

Nesster, shame on you for being away Your one of the best street photogs here and need to be here! Nice capture.

[jgredline]

The last from westlake...
Pentax K20D with Tokina 20-35mm lens