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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: tom b on February 21, 2011, 01:32:09 am

Title: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on February 21, 2011, 01:32:09 am
I'm sure that there isn't a dedicated street photography thread so I thought I would start one. I've just changed workplaces and I'm now travelling to the CBD each day so I thought that I could concentrate more on the street. So far though I seem to have taken more tree images than anything else.

Here is one from Darling Harbour, I've called it watch out.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffdIOaF8Hrg/TJG40p-B7zI/AAAAAAAAAmc/e_gkDrFNCWU/s1600/lorikeet.jpg)

So feel free to contribute to this thread.

Cheers,

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on February 21, 2011, 03:45:01 am
Sadly for the bird, the wrong neckline.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on February 21, 2011, 08:54:15 am
Good shooting, Tom. I'm on vacation on the Florida Gulf Coast for a week. I'll probably have something for this thread by the time I get back.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 21, 2011, 03:37:19 pm
I do not shoot street much, but occasionally I'll get something I like. This one was shot from the upper platform of a double-decker tour bus in New York, during a night tour:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4154220386_fd21e45a02.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slobodan_blagojevic/4154220386/)
A New York Moment (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slobodan_blagojevic/4154220386/) by Slobodan Blagojevic (http://www.flickr.com/people/slobodan_blagojevic/), on Flickr
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on February 22, 2011, 02:27:46 am
A happy snap from on the way home, I'm tentatively calling it different strokes.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OKa9o89hivE/TWNhlAngi9I/AAAAAAAAA4Q/iT_pF9nBAvc/s1600/the_hog.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on February 22, 2011, 05:22:41 am
Just wait, Tom; somebody is sure to start to tell you about angles and how you 'should' have framed it.

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on February 22, 2011, 03:07:58 pm
Rob, I'm sure I can handle it!

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on February 22, 2011, 11:27:59 pm
A street shot from Thailand, I'm sure it's just a language thing.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffdIOaF8Hrg/TMYUvMmge3I/AAAAAAAAAuc/VEuwuELVRWM/s1600/bomb_car.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on February 23, 2011, 11:27:56 am
Just wait, Tom; somebody is sure to start to tell you about angles and how you 'should' have framed it.

;-)

Rob C

But not until they've told you how to crop it.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Patricia Sheley on February 23, 2011, 06:03:42 pm
Street Siren...
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: bobtowery on February 24, 2011, 12:18:27 pm
From Sacramento's second Saturday street fair...
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on February 24, 2011, 02:50:39 pm
Yeah, as a woman's shoes fetichist, I must admit that those are really cool.


Nope, the shoes suck. The jeans look cool. But I once did have a Spanish version of cowboy boots.

Stiletto heels are to die for - or at least break an ankle for - but wedges/platforms were ugly each time they were inroduced. The legs look nice enough though.

Nice image, regardless of fashion sins. Just the sort of thing I never find on my St Helena, though it problably exists did I know where to look.

;-(

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: fredjeang on February 24, 2011, 03:01:24 pm
Nope, the shoes suck. The jeans look cool. But I once did have a Spanish version of cowboy boots.

Stiletto heels are to die for - or at least break an ankle for - but wedges/platforms were ugly each time they were inroduced. The legs look nice enough though.

Nice image, regardless of fashion sins. Just the sort of thing I never find on my St Helena, though it problably exists did I know where to look.

;-(

Rob C

Maybe on the hills arround, where the big houses are located or on the yachts in the harbours.

This summer I may be there for a week at one point. I'll tell you.

I'll also try to get in touch with that friend in France because he did twice the Canal du Midi and knows a lot about it. When I have information I send you a mail.

Cheers.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: fredjeang on February 24, 2011, 03:04:46 pm
From Sacramento's second Saturday street fair...
Bob, I like very much how you grade the tones in general in your pictures. Good works.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on February 24, 2011, 04:24:18 pm
Maybe on the hills arround, where the big houses are located or on the yachts in the harbours.

Cheers.



Yes, but that means driving to Portals Nous and without somebody willing to pay me... no way, José!

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on February 24, 2011, 06:44:27 pm
As for a statue being the subject of street photography. Several years ago I had a work project where I had to take images of public statues in Sydney. Most of the images I took had nothing to do with the street. The one statue that had a great deal of interaction was Il Porcellino the wild boar in the image. He is outside Sydney Hospital and is used for fund raising, rub his nose and you'll have good luck. Over the years he has taken on a new role all on his own, rub him elswere and you'll increase your fertility. I could have had a hand in the image but I though that I would leave that up to people's imaginations. Street photography can include how people react to thheir environment and I think Il Porcellino fits the bill.

Interestingly I'm in two minds as to whether the bomb image is a steet image. It was more of a bump to get the thread started.

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tokengirl on February 24, 2011, 06:59:50 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4126/5173576388_c9ec3195f0_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/msmambo/5173576388/)

**Disclaimer:  The Weimaraner in this photo is not Jasmine.  Just a couple of dogs out walking their humans, taking a little play break.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: fredjeang on February 24, 2011, 07:13:32 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4126/5173576388_c9ec3195f0_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/msmambo/5173576388/)

**Disclaimer:  The Weimaraner in this photo is not Jasmine.  Just a couple of dogs out walking their humans, taking a little play break.
This is a great street shot. Like it a lot, and I'm happy to see more dogs again here.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on February 24, 2011, 07:17:08 pm
For a moment I thought Fred's dog thread had returned:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=41877.0

Nice pic.

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: candide on February 24, 2011, 07:52:08 pm
These guys were playing a dirge for a funeral procession that crawled through the middle of Chinatown in San Francisco last Sunday during the Chinatown Street Festival.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on February 25, 2011, 04:55:55 am
Tom, it must be the time differential that's affecting you: the shot's nothing to do with mutts, it's everything to do with furthering (pandering to?) Fred's shoe fetish! Tantalising half-shoes!!!!!!!! What more can anyone want? How kind and therapeutic of Toke to help out in this way.

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: bobtowery on February 25, 2011, 01:47:03 pm
Bob, I like very much how you grade the tones in general in your pictures. Good works.

Thank you Fred, much appreciated.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on February 25, 2011, 05:26:19 pm
Talking about shoes, I took this shot a couple of days ago on the way to work. I'm sure there is an interesting story behind the shoes and dress…

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-beKx8CRhXak/TWgrk-lltQI/AAAAAAAAA4U/0h75imrSHoc/s1600/shoes.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on March 03, 2011, 01:44:41 am
Some image from the streets of Rajasthan, you have to look closely at the third image.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-72chi9BLuuo/TW8vDaCE7RI/AAAAAAAAA4k/_ZTHw_Bba9s/s1600/rajasthan_01.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IObEZ-L11UU/TW8u3Lgg_vI/AAAAAAAAA4g/XB4429kcbco/s1600/rajasthan_02.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CfcHu0ea2tc/TW8usqou6SI/AAAAAAAAA4c/xdO64MXlN7I/s1600/rajasthan_03.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t4BdoawbzN0/TW8ujV9tiaI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/GRkrL-DAeGY/s1600/rajasthan_04.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on March 03, 2011, 04:27:19 am
I like mice.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on March 03, 2011, 05:11:43 am
I like mice.

Rob C

I usually don't like this large variety, we see them in our neighbourhood as well when we leave the bird food out too long  :(

Here's another street (or should I say bus) shot.
3 chinese "hot boys" waiting in line to get on:

(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201010/PEGA8500166220101010/1078906538_zrB4L-O.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201010/13996958_KtwgT#1078906538_zrB4L-A-LB)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on March 03, 2011, 12:15:58 pm
Karni Mata is the rat temple and definitely something different from your normal tourist site. Perhaps the eigth wonder of the world? No shoes are allowed in the temple so I suggest if you go there you take an extra pair of socks that you can throw out.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WWTW7LN1keE/TW_MPEalXDI/AAAAAAAAA4s/nBmVYy1itYk/s1600/rajasthan_05.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-22P20zJZOr0/TW_MFfdVO_I/AAAAAAAAA4o/DB_a-9SOZXQ/s1600/rajasthan_06.jpg)

Cheers,

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on March 03, 2011, 12:19:16 pm
I like mice.

Rob C

Apparently, this (http://www.patspapers.com/story_stack/item/pizza_prank_who_ordered_the_mice/) guy too... though in his competitor's pizzeria  ;)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on March 03, 2011, 03:37:37 pm
Tom, Thanks. I'm happy. There are some really quite good street shots in this thread. Wish I could have come back from the Gulf Coast with some good street stuff, but it wasn't to be. As I explained to Slobodan, instead of street photography I had to settle for beach photography.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on March 04, 2011, 02:05:27 pm
Rats are very capable and intelligent creatures.

Many years ago I constructed a bird-bath from about eight feet of conduit tubing and a plastic tray. I planted the structure in a cement base in the garden, about two feet from a hedge. To my surprise, I watched a rat climb up the tube, which I had imagined impossible, reach out and swing himself up and over onto the tray. His dismount was even more simple: he leaped into the hedge.

I suppose that jumping from an unsteady and swinging branch would be far more dangerous than landing on it.

Watching a lot of documentaries, I have come to the conclusion that as a species, we are not so hot when it comes to things physical. Our power to weight ratio isn't so wonderful.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on March 04, 2011, 11:01:27 pm
Rob,

Last week I saw a documentary from Africa on detecting landmines by using rats …and I mean big rats. More on the topic here:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.StoryDetail_VPage&pid=2K1HRGMXWST

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Andres Bonilla on March 05, 2011, 11:23:11 am
Rob,

Last week I saw a documentary from Africa on detecting landmines by using rats …and I mean big rats. More on the topic here:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.StoryDetail_VPage&pid=2K1HRGMXWST

Cheers,

Great link thanks!
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Andres Bonilla on March 05, 2011, 11:30:52 am
Here are somo from the streets of Cartagena
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: BFoto on March 05, 2011, 11:57:58 am
Shoe shine Mexico.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on March 05, 2011, 02:44:27 pm
Thanks for the contributions.

Thirty years ago, a group of musicians and political activists came together to form Rock Against Racism. Elvis Costello played at the 100 000 strong London rally, it was an event I will never forget. The English sure know how to do eccentric.

Unfortunately the B&W  negatives from this year long trip were overexposed or overdeveloped, leaving dense, grainy TRI-X negatives. Around seven years ago I used my Nikon 990 to slide scan the negatives. These images are the originally process shots given another treatment using Photoshop CS5.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hDHyvwVvm_I/TXKRGdDP4dI/AAAAAAAAA5A/WTifvJkMv1o/s1600/rally_05.jpg)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c5y4oW89sYw/TXKQ-hzYm2I/AAAAAAAAA48/CfBiuqrQR30/s1600/rally_04.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cBvsWGk1rLA/TXKQ26uKZMI/AAAAAAAAA44/KO3sJEHpk48/s1600/rally_03.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rjIV5uDbmE8/TXKQvtvpDOI/AAAAAAAAA40/VTyKjOxDDAI/s1600/rally_02.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-raUYH5rH5j4/TXKQnEXB8GI/AAAAAAAAA4w/Uxw7Q2SM95U/s1600/rally_01.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on March 05, 2011, 04:46:20 pm
Rob,

Last week I saw a documentary from Africa on detecting landmines by using rats …and I mean big rats. More on the topic here:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.StoryDetail_VPage&pid=2K1HRGMXWST

Cheers,



Thanks for the link, Tom; I knew those rats were bright! Thinking about it, our (as species) biggest basic survival failure seems to be based in our weak sense of smell. So much of survival seems rooted in that sense, from finding stuff to eat that's buried in sand (been watching bears find shellfish) to knowing what's lurking in the bushes. We generally have to see it to believe it. Hmmm...

Ciao -

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on March 08, 2011, 02:55:13 am
As I explained to Slobodan, instead of street photography I had to settle for beach photography.

Nothing wrong with street shooting at the beach:

(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201103/PEGA7001354720110306/1209046416_XmhVA-O.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Other/201103/16106246_QDWvv#1209046416_XmhVA-A-LB)

(Btw, shot from the street)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on March 17, 2011, 02:54:42 am
From the ramp. I just remembered these three shots from my trip to South Australia. A not so friendly goose.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mXGf-kDOLEA/TYGu3snjJXI/AAAAAAAAA6A/JFgS5HK18wc/s1600/goose_01.jpg) (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-z-0jViVJMp0/TYGuuEs0AqI/AAAAAAAAA58/r3D0Zkbs-tk/s1600/goose_03.jpg) (https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uq9klfl40gU/TYGulZZEX-I/AAAAAAAAA54/_icGBR5DTSw/s1600/goose_02.jpg)

You should be able to work out where my feet were.

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on March 17, 2011, 05:30:59 am
Your last shot is a fine example of a Stealth Bomber at work.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 17, 2011, 09:05:45 am
Your last shot is a fine example of a Stealth Bomber at work.

Rob C
+1.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on March 17, 2011, 01:38:22 pm
+1.


On second take, I think more a touch of Concorde?

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on March 26, 2011, 03:54:31 pm
Definitely no stealth in that goose!

Hari Krishnas Kathmandu 1978 and Melbourne 2008.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-EJblRzaOctY/TY5DvB8XqZI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/JFMpJmcgrCM/s1600/krishna1.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ePMTRyzBq3I/TY5DmOQXAAI/AAAAAAAAA6U/5F-eKqiUoEw/s1600/krishna2.jpg)

Cheers,



Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on March 26, 2011, 04:27:15 pm
As spectacle, it lacks the charm of flower power; loved broderie anglaise, long hair and bare feet. And big sun hats, as only the French and some sectors of the English aristocracy can summon it. That's what turned me on to David Hamilton back in the 60s... pity he always had the wrong models.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on March 28, 2011, 05:02:12 am
On the way home.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3uxNZTaw2Mg/TZBOCIKKgMI/AAAAAAAAA64/yjCO922wM6g/s1600/wedding.jpg)

Cheers
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on March 28, 2011, 05:06:54 am
Enjoyed the pre-nupe notice already dividing them!

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Dick Roadnight on March 28, 2011, 08:05:25 am
Karni Mata is the rat temple and definitely something different from your normal tourist site. Perhaps the eigth wonder of the world? No shoes are allowed in the temple so I suggest if you go there you take an extra pair of socks that you can throw out.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-22P20zJZOr0/TW_MFfdVO_I/AAAAAAAAA4o/DB_a-9SOZXQ/s1600/rajasthan_06.jpg)

Cheers,
What camera did you use?

When I photographed water rats with a Nikon, they reacted to the mirror noise, and they were out of shot or spinning before the exposure started. Perhaps the rats there are tame, and accustomed to being photographed?
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on March 28, 2011, 10:01:06 am
Some more beach "street" shooting (I think they go well together)

These platforms of the unbuilt beach huts provide good opportunities for all kind of activities:


Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: armand on April 06, 2011, 08:35:10 pm
Watch your cat
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on April 17, 2011, 12:45:42 am
Happy Easter.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aDI9zJB6474/TapwBCSh5cI/AAAAAAAAA7A/cMMqKLGtqdI/s1600/halloween_10.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on April 17, 2011, 03:56:25 am
Bunnies ain't what they used to be; sign of the times.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on April 17, 2011, 04:23:55 am
Yep, the bunny was taken on a combination of Halloween and a blue moon. Definitely not an Easter bunny.

More from the blue moon/halloween event can be seen here:

http://www.tombrown.id.au/eclectic/halloween/album/index.html

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: William Walker on April 17, 2011, 08:35:03 am
Yep, the bunny was taken on a combination of Halloween and a blue moon. Definitely not an Easter bunny.


Something tells me Rob was thinking more in terms of "Playboy" than "Easter"....
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on April 17, 2011, 09:34:31 am
One thing you never had to worry much about in B&W film days was the blue color cast outdoors on a bright, blue sky day. With color, it's different. The blue sky tends to turn everything, white objects especially, slightly blue. But when you're out there on the street your eye compensates and tells you white is white. Unfortunately, the camera doesn't compensate. In film transparency days you bought "daylight" film that responded more or less correctly to a light source at about 5500 degrees Kelvin. With digital, if you shoot .jpeg and set your camera on one of the outdoor daylight settings, you get something similar to the results you'd get with daylight color film, but almost everyone nowadays shoots raw with in-camera color balance set on automatic. I know I do. If you do that, some of your shots will be fine, but some will have an obvious blue cast. You need to check every shot to make sure the blue cast isn't visible, and adjust if it is -- either with Photoshop's "White Balance" menu, or, better yet, by picking up the White Balance dropper and clicking on something you know is white or middle gray.

I see the problem in an awful lot of pictures put on LuLa for critique, and in an awful lot of tourist pictures, but I've tried to be polite and not mention it. I think I'll stop being that polite if the photographer is asking for criticism. I wonder if anyone else has noticed the problem.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on April 17, 2011, 02:09:17 pm
Actually the image was taken late afternoon. Adusting to remove any blue makes it far too warm for the scene that i remember (I'm told I have a cold eye). And as for the good old days there was a lab that colour corrected all the colour prints, film was definitely not perfect.

Cheers,

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on April 17, 2011, 03:10:34 pm
Something tells me Rob was thinking more in terms of "Playboy" than "Easter"....




Trust the inner voice: it seldom lies to you!

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 17, 2011, 04:02:02 pm
I don't normally do street photography, but here is a NY scene that I couldn't resist.

Eric
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on April 17, 2011, 05:28:16 pm
I don't normally do street photography, but here is a NY scene that I couldn't resist.

Eric




I'm not talking about your picture, but about the content: it's what I hate about a certain type of snapper.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on April 20, 2011, 05:12:24 am
Watch dogs.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fIXS2Df3u_4/Ta6jHqua7AI/AAAAAAAAA7I/cmKXMRuryN0/s1600/IMG_9413.jpg)

Cheers
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Dick Roadnight on April 20, 2011, 06:55:05 am
One thing you never had to worry much about in B&W film days was the blue color cast outdoors on a bright, blue sky day.
Wrong - competent Monochrome photographers often used yellow or red filters to enhance contrast (by filtering out the blue)... on sunny or cloudy days.
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With color, it's different. The blue sky tends to turn everything, white objects especially, slightly blue. But when you're out there on the street your eye compensates and tells you white is white. Unfortunately, the camera doesn't compensate. In film transparency days you bought "daylight" film that responded more or less correctly to a light source at about 5500 degrees Kelvin.
Some of us realized that blue sky or cloud was bluer than 5,500k, and used pink (mired) filters to compensate.
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With digital, if you shoot .jpeg and set your camera on one of the outdoor daylight settings, you get something similar to the results you'd get with daylight color film, but almost everyone nowadays shoots raw with in-camera color balance set on automatic. I know I do. If you do that, some of your shots will be fine, but some will have an obvious blue cast. You need to check every shot to make sure the blue cast isn't visible, and adjust if it is -- either with Photoshop's "White Balance" menu, or, better yet, by picking up the White Balance dropper and clicking on something you know is white or middle gray.
Or take a special grey card with you... and photograph it in the same light, record the colour temperature and use it to WB correct your raw files... ¿and can you not correct tint as well?

Fortunately, with raw, for opportunities not-to-be-missed, you can use the technique the police are not supposed to use... ...shoot first and ask questions later!

I used a pink filter for the calendar shot I took for Farm Contractor/Turner, November 1980... but "they" wanted it to look like a grey day, and uncorrected it.

In the early 1970's, when I had a really awful Mamiya C330, with blue biases lenses, a pro came to take a photo in our vegetable garden... he used a Mamiya 67, professional (blue-biased) ektachcome and a blue batch correction filter... I used Agfa CT18 (warm biased) and a pink filter... somewhere I have a letter of appreciation from the ad agency.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on April 20, 2011, 07:14:44 am
All quite true, Dick, and like you I always carried a set of color filters in film days. But none of that changes the fact that I see too many pictures shot under a blue sky with a blue color cast.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on April 25, 2011, 12:13:04 am
A shot from Kings Cross.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIrm0l_MhSA/TbT0p5nNg6I/AAAAAAAAA7M/zq0VmsCwDN8/s1600/bikie.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on April 25, 2011, 08:48:50 am
Good shooting, Tom. The guy looks like one of the drifters we get in my home town of Manitou Springs, Colorado. He's priceless. My only beef is that I wish you could have moved a bit to the left to get the distracting lettering on the pickup in the background out of the picture. I understand that you may not have had time since you were only about 15 feet away from him.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on April 25, 2011, 09:20:28 am
Drifter? The guy's an artist! Look at his pipes! Look at the credit cards all over his back! That little thing must have cost a fortune; any old bike costs a fortune today, even the humble bicycle, if you can find one.

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on April 25, 2011, 09:49:47 am
Right, Rob. Nowadays drifting is an expensive proposition. You can't do it in boxcars any longer.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 25, 2011, 10:47:09 am
... I wish you could have moved a bit to the left to get the distracting lettering on the pickup in the background out of the picture...

Or you can see it as a visual pun, a humorous commentary on the main subject (the "easy living" and "limited mobility" part) ;)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on April 25, 2011, 03:57:44 pm
Right, Rob. Nowadays drifting is an expensive proposition. You can't do it in boxcars any longer.


But Amex helps...

After all, Buz and Tod did okay doing the same with their 'vette.

;-)

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on April 25, 2011, 06:24:41 pm
Kings Cross is Sydney's red light district. It's full of backpackers by day and sex, drugs and rock 'n roll by night. Maybe there is an alternative story…

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: michswiss on April 25, 2011, 10:37:05 pm
Class divide?

(http://michswiss.smugmug.com/Work-in-progress/Work-in-Progress-2010/i-Nrdx8jg/0/L/dsc_2606-L.jpg)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on April 26, 2011, 04:30:27 pm
Too sunny and bright for my tastes in this genre, Jennifer.

Maybe a b/w conversion and lots of added darkness...

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on April 29, 2011, 11:58:38 pm

From the Think Global School exhibition in Sydney, more information here: http://thinkglobalschool.org

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iAuKujeAyCc/TbuHjleUdwI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/Y4d_84lmrSg/s1600/globalvilliageschool_01.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on May 01, 2011, 04:01:11 am
Read the link; wondering why it disturbs me.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on June 15, 2011, 06:14:33 pm
The building had strong backlighting and there was a pole in front of it (hence the wide angle shot). Not a great image but it just had someone's written all over it. Outback South Australia.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S7-4b50rkiE/TfktC-oUJhI/AAAAAAAAA7o/2umlHtFyoSI/s1600/RSL.jpg)

Cheers,

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: degrub on June 15, 2011, 06:49:28 pm
Read the link; wondering why it disturbs me.

Rob C

cultural homogenization ? or critical thinking ?
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on June 15, 2011, 08:10:41 pm
I went back and read the blurb for Think Global School and I don't have a problem with them. At the moment they are only offering places for Year 9 students and I think that it is the perfect age to give students a different experience. I'd be sending 15 year old boys off to a farm or something similar. Prince Charles was sent to Geelong Grammar's Timbertop school in Victoria in 1966 and he valued the experience. Most Year 9 students just 'sleep' through the year and except for the highly motivated students not a lot is achieved.

MLC in Sydney was one of the partner schools and they have a great reputation and facilities (Year 9 fees are over Au$21 000 pa though). The major problem that I can see is that with food, accommodation, tuition, travel, fares etc this would be one expensive endeavour. This is an experience for the wealthy few.

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on June 16, 2011, 05:16:23 am
I went back and read the blurb for Think Global School and I don't have a problem with them. At the moment they are only offering places for Year 9 students and I think that it is the perfect age to give students a different experience. I'd be sending 15 year old boys off to a farm or something similar. Prince Charles was sent to Geelong Grammar's Timbertop school in Victoria in 1966 and he valued the experience. Most Year 9 students just 'sleep' through the year and except for the highly motivated students not a lot is achieved.

MLC in Sydney was one of the partner schools and they have a great reputation and facilities (Year 9 fees are over Au$21 000 pa though). The major problem that I can see is that with food, accommodation, tuition, travel, fares etc this would be one expensive endeavour. This is an experience for the wealthy few.Cheers,



And I see nothing wrong with that; you aren't saying this, but why should those who can be penalised (even if only morally) for the sake of those who can't? It's an attitude that does nothing for the poor and even less for the wealthy.

Was a time that some of us in Britain used to believe that one of the cultural differences between the US and the UK was attitude. We believed that in the US, should you see a guy drive past in a brand new Cadillac you'd think: one day, if I work hard enough, I'll buy one of them too, whereas the usual Brit response to the experience would be: mothereffer! why he and not I?

I wonder if it's still like that in the States, or if it ever was more than a British fantasy? Russ? Eric?

Fascinating website, this.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on June 16, 2011, 10:29:09 am
Rob, I think a majority of Americans understand that wealth isn't a zero-sum game in which the rich become rich at the expense of the poor. Yet there are those who are wedded to the labor theory of value Marx put forth in Das Kapital. When our own president, on the campaign trail, was confronted by a citizen who asked him why he wanted to raise capital gains tax rates when experience has taught us again and again that raising rates results in less tax revenue, he responded: "It's a matter of fairness."

If you believe Marx was right, as our president obviously does, then you believe that no one can become wealthy unless he steals part of the value produced by the labor of others. But the majority of American people understand that labor isn't the only thing that produces value. That's why people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc., keep inventing and creating -- creating wealth. Small business, not General Motors, always has been our nation's salvation.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on June 16, 2011, 12:00:58 pm
Oh, boy...
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on June 16, 2011, 02:59:57 pm
Oh, boy...



Slobodan, has your amplifier just broken down?

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on June 16, 2011, 04:17:27 pm
Oh, boy...

I'll buy that, Slobodan, but the situation's getting close enough to catastrophic that I'd add some stronger language which I won't repeat on this family forum.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on June 16, 2011, 05:57:59 pm
Ironically I understand that 99% of public funds for education in the USA go to public education, how socialist is that. Interesting enough is that under John Howard who had a public education, private school funding in Australia has increased to a level where we are one of the highest providers of funds to private education in the OECD. Britain has been the the leader in public versus private education for a long time with wealth and privilege being a keystone of the ruling/working class system.

Actions speak louder than words and unfortunately for most of us the outcry does not match reality.

Enough rhetoric, where are the images from the street.

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on June 16, 2011, 06:46:18 pm
... Was a time that some of us in Britain used to believe that one of the cultural differences between the US and the UK was attitude. We believed that in the US, should you see a guy drive past in a brand new Cadillac you'd think: one day, if I work hard enough, I'll buy one of them too, whereas the usual Brit response to the experience would be: mothereffer! why he and not I?...

Rob, having lived on both continents, I think your perception is quite correct, as much as broad generalizations could be. I would say it is not specifically British (sorry!), but European. I tend to think it has something to do with Christianity, particularly in its Catholic incarnation (and pardon me if wrong, I do not claim to be a religious scholar), in particular the saying "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God".
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on June 17, 2011, 04:02:15 am
Rob, having lived on both continents, I think your perception is quite correct, as much as broad generalizations could be. I would say it is not specifically British (sorry!), but European. I tend to think it has something to do with Christianity, particularly in its Catholic incarnation (and pardon me if wrong, I do not claim to be a religious scholar), in particular the saying "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God".


I'm starting to suspect that, too. I've come across several people here who seem quite well off, but still spout rather leftish views; in particular I'm thinking of a couple of them who own businesses here. It appears to me to be a bit of hypocricy or, perhaps, a public display of playing safe? Something I noted thirty hears ago on first coming here to live, was that the local rich didn't spend their money on swanky cars; one multi-millionaire that I know uses the same small, workmen's bars as the rest of us, drives a modest mid-range family car and at best, as far as I remember, owned a rather small ski boat. And in those bars, chats to absolutely anyone who cares to chat with him. In a way, it's reassuring, but it also disappoints a little: I'd like my millionaires to play the part! The world needs more glamour. It reminds me of the sad claims of British football pools winners of yesteryear who used to say that a win wouldn't change their lives, that they'd continue working in the factory... as if their erstwhile mates would allow them ever to feel the same again!

But the expensive car thing seems to be growing here too, now, these past few years, mainly spurred on by the next generation that has a liking for spending the previous one's wealth. And also by the buy-now-pay-later ease.

Oh well, maybe Saturday morning's computer check will see the Euromilliones come my way. Have to say, I feel a certain sympathy with the 'not change my life' school: what would I do differently now? I doubt a boat would come to fruition and at best, a 3-Series BMW coupé or a medium-sized Mercedes; I don't really desire large cars - far too restricting in the where-to-park stakes. Perhaps I'd just call cabs? However, I'd certainly make my kids independent for ever! Or until the next financial crisis.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on June 17, 2011, 04:37:15 pm
Back to the street. After finding my Old Delhi powerlines image (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=55092.0 (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=55092.0)) I remembered this street shot from Delhi.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0EB09su6bio/Tfu6nEeFNBI/AAAAAAAAA8o/qYzpV2jpkfU/s1600/power.jpg)


Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on June 21, 2011, 03:09:29 am
Took this one in Amsterdam in front of the Station a few weeks ago

"Ken, can you please come and pick me up, my bags are sooooo.... heavy"  ;)

(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-meeting-June-4-2011/i-bPqDHrd/0/O/PEGA8500429520110606-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-meeting-June-4-2011/17398644_GgM3Bb#1333397956_bPqDHrd-A-LB)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on June 21, 2011, 07:58:25 am
Good shooting, Pegelli. Bravo.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on June 21, 2011, 11:40:29 am
Man, you're slipping: instead of snapping her you should have offered to look after the baggage and snapped her up instead of leaving her to Ken who, had he had any sense either, would have already been there!

Just an idea after the event - I have lots of those.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on July 02, 2011, 02:43:24 am
Location, location, location…

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eE4gMEVJheM/Tg690AnjZYI/AAAAAAAAA9c/SNMIPs_t1RY/s1600/meatLoaf.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on July 07, 2011, 09:10:43 pm
Location, location, location…

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eE4gMEVJheM/Tg690AnjZYI/AAAAAAAAA9c/SNMIPs_t1RY/s1600/meatLoaf.jpg)

Cheers,

Tom, Somehow I missed this one. Good shooting.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on July 07, 2011, 10:01:06 pm
Thanks, I thought it was a good image. Had to walk back home and get my camera for this one.

The young guy was practicing his saxaphone under a railway bridge on Paramatta Rd, a busy arterial road going into the CBD. I guess he was using it as a sound "blocker" of some sort. It was definitely not a good place to be busking. I'll make a print and give to him if I see him again.

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on July 09, 2011, 01:11:08 am
Definitely a better busking position than Parramatta Rd.

Here's one from one of Syndey's best busking spots, Circular Quay.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2fcvgoLBuWM/ThfkpZrzsRI/AAAAAAAAA-I/SeEceA6Gz9M/s1600/busking.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on July 09, 2011, 04:40:26 am
Is all of this a sign of unemployment, or do people do it for kicks? Or is it easier than regular employment?

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on July 09, 2011, 02:34:27 pm
But if you're no good, nobody pays attention (and you go to bed hungry)

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on July 09, 2011, 06:16:14 pm
Or if you're very good, you just have to pay attention to the task at hand.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ec7Og9nHQoU/ThjS-3PeHGI/AAAAAAAAA-M/gU_efS2fUa0/s1600/drawing.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on July 22, 2011, 01:50:28 am
Bike messengers or cycle couriers as they are called here really annoy me. They are a law unto themselves.

I prefer my bicycle riders to be a little more sedate, perhaps like this young lady:

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U0G-QkdgYmM/TikN-5dqB3I/AAAAAAAAA-8/10V7bsDC-bk/s1600/cyclist.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on July 22, 2011, 04:02:04 am
Cheap funeral for a pet?

Rob C

P.S. Cute face!
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on July 22, 2011, 07:25:53 pm
Cheap funeral for a pet?

Rob C

P.S. Cute face!

Good question Rob, actually it was a film shoot. This may explain it better than words (4000?)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0gDTWpYGuwM/TioAZ_iOvtI/AAAAAAAAA_A/q6cj2SF-p0s/s1600/cyclist2.jpg)

It seemed to be a Japanese/Australian collaboration by the looks of it. I did a reverse image search to see if I could find the film and got the following results. Need a good laugh, just do Reverse Google Image Search.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kpdg-f0qnaQ/TioE6IQDlcI/AAAAAAAAA_I/aYml_cjhMEU/s1600/search1.jpg)


Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on July 23, 2011, 04:20:29 am
Skateboarders on bikes

(http://inlinethumb23.webshots.com/46934/2759857160040348811S600x600Q85.jpg)




Well, if one knocked you over, at least you got a great shot out of the connection.

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on July 23, 2011, 04:27:01 am
Good question Rob, actually it was a film shoot. This may explain it better than words (4000?)

It seemed to be a Japanese/Australian collaboration by the looks of it. I did a reverse image search to see if I could find the film and got the following results. Need a good laugh, just do Reverse Google Image Search.




I think I mentioned my own search: I tried it out with an image I had up on LuLa and all it found was my own website. I'd have imagined that LuLa would have been an easy one to discover.

The shot of the girl on the bike has a terrific atmosphere, losing nothing even after being shown the context; nice shooting, Tom. If only 'street' was always as nice and productive; I'd be tempted to try again, sensibilities notwithstanding!

Rob C
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on July 23, 2011, 12:52:35 pm
Tom, I haven't spent much time on LuLa lately. I've actually been working -- shooting pictures and making gallery prints. I really like the gal on the bike, especially since it looks as if she's staring at the store dummies off to her left as she rides by. Good shooting.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on August 27, 2011, 04:13:32 am
Balmain Market and a lamington, can't use the good china.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rOu7JMEDK-0/Tlim1eZ47NI/AAAAAAAABBg/b38KSl10Apw/s1600/lamington.jpg)

Cheers,

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Bryan Conner on August 27, 2011, 04:58:54 am
Graffiti Dreams

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7008/graffitidreamslowres.jpg)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on November 17, 2011, 11:31:53 pm
From Pitt Street Mall…

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lcUyHmgan2c/TsXe6p-6UqI/AAAAAAAABDA/cRVwj9EXVcw/s1600/concentration.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on November 18, 2011, 12:35:47 pm
I know street is mostly B&W, but I like this one better in colour:

(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/i-s6P2bVV/0/O/PEGNex0052020111106-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/19996893_jqMNxr#1577616272_s6P2bVV-A-LB)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on November 21, 2011, 01:13:29 am
I'm sorry if I upset some people with the colour shot  ;)

So here's another B&W

Never travel without a broom:
(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/i-8N6zg43/0/O/Dopol-A77-02094-O.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/19996893_jqMNxr#1593783791_8N6zg43-A-LB)
 ;D
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on November 21, 2011, 01:57:25 am
Why have one broom when you can have several…

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WY_01NPjJLQ/Tsn1B17O4ZI/AAAAAAAABDI/mSlKJvr9r7Y/s1600/brooms.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on November 21, 2011, 06:26:25 am
Nice one Tom, looks like an older film shot, correct?

Time to bring back some colour (Hope I don't close it down again  :-\)

One sided passion, or when to keep your hands in your pockets   :D :

(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/i-rrNLMkG/0/O/PEGA8500567920111106-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/19996893_jqMNxr#1589470874_rrNLMkG-A-LB)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on November 21, 2011, 09:25:58 am
And to think I'd imagined the point of interest was the knock-knees in the background!

;-)

Rob C

P.S.  Nice calves and heels, though, on the crisp one...
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on November 21, 2011, 10:46:15 am
So here's another B&W

Good shooting, Pieter -- on both of them.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: pegelli on November 21, 2011, 01:48:10 pm
Thanks Russ. A couple of weeks ago I went with a few like-minded togs to Madrid and had a blast.

Here's another one I like, witnessing a self portrait in the making on the Puerta de Sol.

(http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/i-WKz6L3K/0/O/PEGA8500554220111105-L.jpg) (http://pegelli.smugmug.com/Events/Dyxum-Madrid-201111/19996893_jqMNxr#1577616237_WKz6L3K-A-LB)
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on November 21, 2011, 02:45:10 pm
I like that one best of the lot. Bravo!
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on November 21, 2011, 03:21:50 pm
Some reflections don't reflect reality…

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-drUofWmGkJw/TsqymL9tWcI/AAAAAAAABDQ/HSDkgG5DXnA/s1600/mirror.jpg)

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: dchew on November 21, 2011, 05:19:25 pm
I was in Nicaragua two weeks ago auditing some in-home filters we installed for the out of the way villages as part of our company's sustainability efforts.  In one community the children congregated around us.  When we were finished I pulled out the "blow bubbles" soap.  The kids had a blast.

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: popnfresh on November 23, 2011, 12:05:53 pm
I was in Nicaragua two weeks ago auditing some in-home filters we installed for the out of the way villages as part of our company's sustainability efforts.  In one community the children congregated around us.  When we were finished I pulled out the "blow bubbles" soap.  The kids had a blast.


A wonderful photograph.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: WalterEG on November 23, 2011, 02:47:37 pm
Pictures like this always prompt me to ask: "Why do we ever have to grow-up?"

I try to retain my innocence and sense of wonder but sometimes the pressures of modern life make it hard to comply.

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on November 23, 2011, 03:39:45 pm
Well, somebody's got to milk the cows and slop the hogs. Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to get political.
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: RSL on November 23, 2011, 03:45:19 pm
Yesterday I got a chance to wander around Ybor city in Tampa for a while. I shot the equivalent of a couple rolls of film, then dumped the majority of them and kept a few. Here are four survivors. I posted them on Street & PJ, but since we're talking street in this thread I thought that since they're already ready to go it might be worthwhile to post them here too.

Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 23, 2011, 04:47:29 pm
Great assortment, Russ.

IMHo, "street photography" is all about interactions, expressions, body language, and unexpected juxtapositions. These all have something to linger over.

Eric
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: tom b on February 21, 2012, 01:09:24 am
The police officers were acting like Christmas had come early. They were opening up and checking everything that they could.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0-gk0zOIKdY/T0MzoXmKgAI/AAAAAAAABEI/NJk4an_QAGY/s1600/early_christmas.jpg)

South Yarra, Melbourne.

Cheers,
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Fips on February 21, 2012, 03:02:24 am
Quote
The police officers were acting like Christmas had come early. They were opening up and checking everything that they could.

I guess they were called by the owner of that truck who had reported that his shock absorbers had been stolen. Australia seem truly like a strange place....  ;D
Title: Re: From the street – let's keep Russ happy
Post by: Rob C on February 21, 2012, 04:48:40 am
I think it's an infection from across the Pacific: street sleds (aka sledge). How very odd.

Rob C