Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => Discussing Photographic Styles => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on May 07, 2017, 10:58:18 pm
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Incredibly beautiful, quirky, paradoxical street-life shots from a very talented Russian photographer Alexander Petrosyan. Great use of wide-angle lenses, strong colors, vantage points, and decisive moments. Having seen those environments, I can strongly relate, but even if you've never been there, I am sure you will be captivated by the images.
"The Russia you’ll never see on postcards…
Street life, St. Petersburg-style"
http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/alexander-petrosyan-photographers-devotion-st-petersburg-street-scenes-russia/
And his website: http://aleksandrpetrosyan.com/en/
My favorite:
(http://aleksandrpetrosyan.com/uploads/piterskoe/alexander_petrosyan_image283.jpg)
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That's a fantastic set of images. Thanks for the link.
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That's a fantastic set of images. Thanks for the link.
+1 Wow! Thanks!
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Thanks for the link, that's great work.
I visited St Petersburg years & years ago when it was still known as Leningrad. Looks like it's got a very different vibe now.
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Thanks Slobodan. That's wonderful stuff -- real street photography.
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Amazing work. Thanks for the links.
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Excellent indeed.
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Seems a lot of those are composites. Still produces some interesting images, but would be a bit of a stretch to call it streetphotography then, no?
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Seems a lot of those are composites...
Examples?
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Some great images there. Certainly evoked some smiles & the odd chuckle.
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Thanks for the link. I am impressed by his imaginative photos!
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Some great images there. Certainly evoked some smiles & the odd chuckle.
+1 some of the best street photography I've ever seen.
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Examples?
Almost any picture gives me that uneasy feeling that something doesn't add up, the light isn't quite right, the shadows don't appear natural or parallel, the comparative size of people doesn't quite work.
In your picture, it seems the shadow directions aren't quite parallel.
In another picture there is a little kid on a railing, with a background where the people look just a bit taller in comparison than would be natural. They don't cast shadows on the railing. The kid seems stabbed by the railing.
You know why people keep cats as pets? (Now that we're on the subject)? Because you hardly need to take care of them. What are the odds then that a cat is in a car which is snowed in? With a wolf-like dog on top that doesn't quite look like its on the prowl in the city, but more like a pose from on a lease that isn't there? And the cat, is it behind the window?
shadows of birds are different with what seems to be chromatic aberration, one seems a moving bird shadow, yet the water is perfectly frozen. Those shadows don't look natural.
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Almost any picture gives me that uneasy feeling that something doesn't add up...
It's Russia, what do you expect? ;)
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... In your picture, it seems the shadow directions aren't quite parallel...
Should they be? Not if you take into account perspective, otherwise quite pronounced in that picture.
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It's Russia, what do you expect? ;)
;D
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Should they be? Not if you take into account perspective, otherwise quite pronounced in that picture.
I mean with taking perspective into account, the shadows don't quite work for me. They don't seem parallel to the vanishing point of the lightsource...
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I mean with taking perspective into account, the shadows don't quite work for me. They don't seem parallel to the vanishing point of the lightsource...
Given the distance from the lightsource, they shouldn't follow the same perspective as the street. The closer the light source (say a street lamp), the more divergent shadows would be, and vice versa.
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Incredibly beautiful, quirky, paradoxical street-life shots from a very talented Russian photographer Alexander Petrosyan. Great use of wide-angle lenses, strong colors, vantage points, and decisive moments. Having seen those environments, I can strongly relate, but even if you've never been there, I am sure you will be captivated by the images.
What a great talent! Thanks for posting those links.
Jim
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Thanks for the link. Great photographer. Bookmarked.
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Great images, thanks for the link.
Beautiful?
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.... Beautiful?
Well, in a broader sense of the word (attached with three clicks ;) )
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Some of the shots have been around elsewhere, becaue I'm familiar with them, but can't for the life of me remember where I saw them. I guess that's the price one pays for too many hours at the computer instead of getting a life or job within the reality sector. On the other hand, as long as I march my one, prescribed hour per day, that should keep the veins clear, thus perpetuating the status quo.
I get a twinge of doubt over two shots: the woman with the binos between the heads of policemen or whatever they are; the lady with the tight skirt and undamaged hose climbing in or out of a condemned building; isn't her butt well-lit compared with the walls!
There's seems to be an underlying sense of homage to Mr Parr, not one of my favourite snappers. I think colour is used (to effect) to add a sense of drama that would not, otherwise, exist to any great extent. Which to me, seems fair enough.