Everything Street Photography

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

A rare colour photo from me for my first post. Taken in Taipei last March Ricoh R1v....err, slow (1s) shutter IIRC!

SSP

Vienna December 2006

This picture does not have a deeper meaning, i just like it because it's typical for my regular trips to Vienna. Sitting in a cafe, drinking coffee and taking pictures of foreigners. This image was done with my old M6. I'am still using both, analog and digital gear. I find it hard to make the decision between the joy of using 'a real camera' and the high res pics that the 5D produces. Have fun, Guido

Just because it's so long ago since I posted here.
A guitar player in the Grand Place in Brussels. I've shot thousands of them, and I swore never to do it anymore, but I liked the expression on his face and the way he was dressed.
And I shot this with my 50mm 1.8. It's so damn cheap, and SO GOOD!

The Royal Galleries in Brussels. I don't like the processing a lot myself, but this is what the customer wanted. And this comes out of my mouth. Me, who said never to bend to the wishes of anyone... Well, it's kind of how I pictured it, so it's not that bad.

Berlin Kreuzberg 2006