[fractal]

Rock on....Bravo!

Cheers. Will do!

[jgredline]

Cruising by


Ha? Don't hide girls.


Dirty looks? sheesh..


Two men and a baby


Ruff ruf


Le french

[fractal]

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

was there some rule about b/w images?

shot from the hip with a manual focus yashinon dx 50mm; don't tell him I got his picture

No rule. Part tradition (which is silly) and part because it may suit the pictures. The way I see it, going black and white is a way of simplifying a picture so that the actual objective is more in focus by removing colors that could otherwise be distracting. It is also simply because I grow up in a darkroom and really love black and white and the process of tuning contrast, greyscale etc to something I beleive to be an improvement, the only change is that I now do it in lightroom instead of the darkroom. Some +90% of my street shots I do in black and white, but when I do believe colors add something to the picture I may keep them.

Was he asleep?

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

Great shot!!!

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

DA 15ltd

What role models are we giving our children. What dreams does that leave them with?


I guess they are sisters?


Come on!


Winter market. Sign says "smoked ham" and "cloudberry jam".

[fractal]

Great shot!!!

Thank you sir.

[JesseDavis]

No rule. Part tradition (which is silly) and part because it may suit the pictures. The way I see it, going black and white is a way of simplifying a picture so that the actual objective is more in focus by removing colors that could otherwise be distracting. It is also simply because I grow up in a darkroom and really love black and white and the process of tuning contrast, greyscale etc to something I beleive to be an improvement, the only change is that I now do it in lightroom instead of the darkroom. Some +90% of my street shots I do in black and white, but when I do believe colors add something to the picture I may keep them.

Was he asleep?

He was most definitely asleep, and a few thunderclap K10 shutter clicks a foot from his ear made no difference. In fact I think that everyone in that bench was asleep. They circulate a strange airborn drug on japanese trains that will put you to sleep as soon as you sit down, yet somehow imbues you with a telepathic ability to wake up seconds before your stop.

I had another that was framed better to show his zonked-out-ness, but I missed focus slightly:


Here is another taken from the same position pointed accross the train, dont have to go far to find more narcolepsy; Monochromed to fit in ;p


More in the Tokyo subway:


A cute pastry shop worker, one of the first Yashinon shots:


Downtown Machida, SMC Takumar 70-210 F4:


This is done with a lumix bridge camera in Yokohama:

[bbluesman]

He was most definitely asleep, and a few thunderclap K10 shutter clicks a foot from his ear made no difference. In fact I think that everyone in that bench was asleep. They circulate a strange airborn drug on japanese trains that will put you to sleep as soon as you sit down, yet somehow imbues you with a telepathic ability to wake up seconds before your stop.


Downtown Machida, SMC Takumar 70-210 F4:

Nice series-this one rocks. Great comp and bokeh. Leave it to the Tak.

[JesseDavis]

Nice series-this one rocks. Great comp and bokeh. Leave it to the Tak.

thanks ♥ Now you're my very special friend! {erm... platonically.}

[bbluesman]

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

"If your photos are not good enough, you are not close enough."

Robert Capa


Of course he talked about war photo, but I think it may apply to street shooting as well.

[jgredline]

"If your photos are not good enough, you are not close enough."

Robert Capa


Of course he talked about war photo, but I think it may apply to street shooting as well.

Yes, indeed I have read and heard that.....I think of it often. I also agree with you Douglas on the black and white conversions. At the end of the day though, to each his own. As much as I try to post in color, the only ones that seem to work for me are the ones I shoot with film.

[jgredline]

This is done with a lumix bridge camera in Yokohama:

This is fantastic.

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

This is fantastic.

I was going to say the same thing. And I think I would also have kept the nice warm color on this photo. Well done!