Everything Street Photography

Your new blog looks really sharp -- I did like the old one but you've got a lot more potential with the new one. Any chance you can somehow integrate the community blog with your other? Not to put our posts into your main content area, of course, but just to give it all a similar look and feel, and maybe tie comments in that area to our "real" names over here? Mostly just cause it looks better

Actually, you should move all your site into the new style. Nothing against your old site. I just really like the new one. I might have to steal some ideas if I ever build mine again.

Come on people, I need my fix of photos...where is everyone?

I just got back from a week in New York with my three new girlfriends, the digital rebel XTI, the Ikon, and my somewhat eccentric Holga. Having never used any of the three until this trip, it was bound to be interesting...of course the digital camera performed as well as expected, but the other two were more interesting. I just got the negatives back today and have been scanning them in for some time (took a while to figure out the film scanning process).

Can't say they came out great, but I wasn't expecting much -- since neither camera has a REAL viewfinder, I didn't even know what I was actually taking pictures of! The Holga lets you look through a fake lens, but the Ikon only has a little box that hangs in space -- and the view you see in that is MUCH more zoomed in than what the film actually records.

I'm redoing my website again while I master the Ruby language, but hopefully I'll have it back up soon and can show off some of my work. It was an adventure, I have to say. This was the first trip where I felt challenged by the photography, and I think that's due in large part to the fact that I actually had to think some. And that is always a good thing.

No pictures yet -- but I was over at my folks' house last night and they had been going through some old stuff. My dad was quite into photography back in the day, then I came along and kind of distracted he and mom for a while...but they were cleaning up and found a camera that someone had given him a loooong time ago. At least 25 years ago. But the camera itself is up to 69 years old -- 1938 is when it was first built (it's a Zeiss Icon 515/2). The thing is built like a tank -- it puts my poor digital rebel to shame as far as construction. And it's so simple!

But the best part...there was a roll of film inside. It almost certainly is dead and won't have anything on it. But, I'm taking it to the lab tomorrow anyway -- I figure there's a 1 in a million chance that the film can be developed and will have some kind of captured gem from the past, from who knows when.

And I'll be getting some new film, too. I'll keep you guys updated with whatever I find.

Oh -- by the way, I "borrowed" the camera from my dad, but I think he realizes that I'm actually stealing it.

Well, I'm an idiot. I kept saying I would back up my drives next weekend, and next weekend turned into next month, next year, and here I am over two years later...can anyone guess where this story is going?

ALL of my street photos are gone. The drive is completely corrupted. I've run a few different file restoration utilities on it and they don't see any directory or file structure at all -- nothing. So, I'm going to have to take the drive in to a pro to see if they can pull anything off (for a large amount of money, I'm sure).

This is the one area where all you film shooters will get no arguments from me about the weaknesses of digital...but it was my own fault. The good news is that I do still have all of my hiking pictures from around Arizona and some California...but there are sooooo many others that are probably just gone.

One of my friends said, "Look at the bright side...god's telling you to get a better camera." And in my depression, I might just take that advice...

Hello All,

www.nonphptography.com has had a long history in my bookmarks and is a site I very much admire in terms of content and design. It was therefore with a great deal of pleasure that I recently stumbled across this related blog. I have taken photographs for a number of years now and I am starting to realise that for me, street photography is one of the most interesting and exciting genres of photographic art.

I, and two very talented friends of mine, also post to our own blog entitled Monochrome Brisbane. As the name suggests we post monochrome images of our home city; sometimes as part of a theme, other times as individual images according to our own taste. Some are very recognisable as street photography, others hint of a desire to explore architectural line and form, and yet others are a celebration of the characteristics of light itself.

I look forward to a long and hopefully reciprocally rewarding relationship with Everything Street photography and to celebrate this inaugural post have included “CDs for Sale” an image which I took recently on the streets of my home city.

Cheers,

Martin.

A couple years ago I took a great trip to New York in the winter -- I've posted a few pictures from the blizzard that hit while I was there. But my favorite pictures were a series that I took in Central Park, which was oddly quiet that time of year. Apparently, New Yorkers don't like going outside when the average temperature is only 15 degrees! Here's one of them -- click the title to see the others.

A view of Manhattan from quite the subway in Queens.

Found this excellent forum and knew I had to join.

I have just bought a little Ricoh GRD and wow what a street cam, especially in SNAP mode.

Here's one I took while in Nottingham.

CC's always welcome.

Doc

These ladies positioned themselves on the best spot on the street. Fairly cold day then (hence the blanket), but actually quite nice if you stayed within the reach of the sunlight.

Good choice on rearranging your main page -- it's a lot more compact and clear. Although I preferred it when your personal photo blog launched from the main picture...but I added you to my google page, so I can see when you make updates to the blog long before I get to the site, so I'll let that slide.

You know, cause my opinion really matters in how you manage your own site!

This is my first successful transfer (mod podge, plain paper to photo paper). I have a bad time getting the paper off with out ruining the print. I'll try some more.

I was visiting Florence when I passed by the Duomo(St. Maria Novella church) and saw this old laid begging. People just pass by her pretending not to see her. I think that in these days humans are getting used to see this kind of thing, is easier to pretend not to see instead of trying to chance something.

40 minute exposure taken a couple nights ago at 4:00 am. I was surrounded by yipping coyotes the entire night, but lived to tell the tale. Next time, I'm taking a voice recorder too, because the coyotes were fun to listen to.

One from Manhattan...a church entrance very, very late at night.

Possibly my favorite shot ever...

Something a little different from me...

Taken in Queens, New York City

received a mail this week from Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne , Switzerland. One of my photographs has been on display at the exposition "Tous photographes!", "La mutation de la photographie amateur à l'heure numérique" So here is the installation view plus the original image.

btw the image is called "Eat ---”

I love New York, but this guy just looks really cold.

Veldstraat - Gent - Belgium - © www.oogsnoep.be

Taken on blackpool promanade in january, rather cold and very quite. winter makes an ideal time to visit seaside resorts for photography.

cheers
martin

This was in St. Louis near the Arch. I liked the reaction of the old(er) couple. Happy Valentines Day.

Street of Albi, where I spend one day.

Here's another shot of mine. I tried to go all BW for a day but went back to color part way through. I do like the shots in BW.

I'm new and looking for honest criticism. I took this in Hollywood on a Saturday and was amazed at the gentle way this guy worked with his balloons. I have to say I'm shy about getting in peoples faces with the camera. It's hard when half the people in LA seem to think you should pay them if you take a picture on the sidewalk. I'm not talking about posing someone with zorro or or batman, just shooting life as it unfolds. Any advice? I do smile and wouldn't dream of being rude.

I don't know if it's my computer causing black and whites to look blueish to me. So I wonder if black and whites look blueish to anyone else.

OK -- this one I love. It's the Manhattan Bridge, taken from very near the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York City. The colors really worked out well (in my opinion).

Taken with a very slow shutter speed - looking for a sense of movement and a dgree of abstraction.

Here's my two rusted prints and one transfer that I don't really like, but I'll show them for critique. I think the rust technique will look best with a contrasting tone, like blue, instead of BW images.

Rusted transfer 1:

Rust transfer 2: (this one is ok, but it looks best when just viewed normally)

Mod transfer with heavy matte: (not bad but I should have used more modpodge on the edges)

What does everyone think?

The idea that coachmen are stiff representatives of aristocracy vanishes all of a sudden.

In Belgium, we have a site called Belgium Digital. One of its members has created a very convenient little piece of software that doesn't require installation. Its purpose is to resize images to the dimensions you want and the max. filesize you want, so now, for this blog for instance, you can set it to 450 px, 96 kb, which is getting the max from what you are allowed to do. The application will also allow you to put frames around your images. (there are more than 80 different frames).

Here's the software:

http://www.idimager.nl/FreeWare/BDSizer.exe

and here is the file with the frames. Just put it in the same directory as the exe:

http://www.idimager.nl/FreeWare/CustomFrames.imbfrm

Lately when I am taking photos downtown, security from the buildings tell me not to take pictures. I always tell them to mind their own business and they always call the police. The police always come and tell them that it is ok for me to take the pictures. I just wonder if it is just me running into stupid aggressive security people or if others have experienced this.

I am relatively new to photography and very new to street photography I have focused on landscape up to now but the work on this site and various Flickr groups has inspired me to explore street photography in more detail. Thanks for the great site and the inspiration..

My passion for long exposures and escalators strikes again.

There you go. An image transfer made with Gesso.
it's almost too good

OK, here's my first try. Also, may I introduce my new friend, the scanner?

Here's a second image, done before I knew what I was doing, that I still kind of like. However, I did tweak this in Photoshop a bit to get it like this...making this a digital photo, printed using an analog method, brought back into digital format, and manipulated again. I should try an inkjet transfer of this image just for kicks.

Hey Nitsa,

Cool new images! I want to make sure I understand this before I make a big mess.

Step 1: Flip image and print onto REGULAR printer paper (not photo paper?)
Step 2: Apply mod podge to print and press onto photo paper, holding them together until it dries
Step 3: Soak in water and peel off the original sheet of paper

Is that it? Step 1 is the main one I'm interested in...

Veldstraat in Gent - Belgium