In one of my previous posts, I published a couple of photos of people sitting on a bench - alone - and involved in different activities. This week, the theme is the same, but there are two or more people sitting on the bench and are involved in discussions or not at...
Cafés – continued
May 16, 2018
I recently declared my love to take pictures of people on the terraces of cafés. In this week's post, I come back to that with a quick follow-up, because I went out again and took a couple of more pictures of people sitting outside of cafés. You will notice a...
On the bench
May 9, 2018
Just like cafés (see recent post), people sit down on the bench in public spaces to take a break, to chat, to wait for others... And as for cafés, they look for seats in the sun in this early spring. In this week's post, I just want to share a couple of pictures with...
The Out-of-Camera JPEGS of the Fuji X100F are stunning!
May 2, 2018
This week, my post will differ from my usual ones as I went out with a new camera and tested the out-of-camera JPEGs of the Fuji X100F to publish a post on equipment and tech. To set up the camera, I read through many many blogs, forums, and watched many videos and...
Cafés
Apr 25, 2018
With the first sun rays, people living in the cities are starting to soak up the sun on the large terraces of cafés. Usually, they meet up with one or more friends to chat and to exchange the last news, with the romantic partner for an afternoon coffee entre amoureux,...
When people spot the camera
Apr 18, 2018
Film photography opened up some other forms of street photography to me by putting much more effort in the composition of the picture and playing with lights. But, when I use my digital MFT camera, I still focus very much on people and their interesting gestures or...
A dog on the piano
Apr 11, 2018
Before starting to write this blog post, I quickly googled for "a dog on the piano" and the search engine provides - among many others - 2.28 million links to videos with dogs playing, walking on or singing along with the piano. The first page of results even features...
Unwanted selfies
Apr 4, 2018
For work, I recently looked up information on psychological disorders or pathologies caused by digital media and technologies and I came across something interesting: selfitis, or the obsessive need to take and post selfies. According to researchers, selfitis - the...
More backlights in cold weather
Mar 28, 2018
Although the temperatures are moving up considerably, I will share two photos this week, which I took in much colder conditions end of February. I was on a teaching assignment trip to another university and landed a couple hours before my lecture actually took off. To...
Contrasty pictures – post-production
Mar 21, 2018
This week's post will be dedicated to some more technical aspects: post-production. As a passionate but complete amateur photographer, who only recently came to street photography, I also discovered ways to get the best of the pictures in post-production. To do so, I...
Testing another roll of film: Ilford’s FP4+
Mar 14, 2018
On a business trip - a teaching assignment in one of my former institutions - I decided to test another roll of film: Ilford's FP4+ 125, which I shot at 200. The FP4+ is a 24 exposures film and I read some interesting things online about this film. For space - and fun...
Another film photography post
Mar 7, 2018
For my Christmas travels back to my family in the north of Germany and to the family of my significant other - a time spend a lot in aircrafts, our car, and of course sitting around a table with a lot of excellent food - I made a decision: I only took one camera - my...
Cold
Feb 28, 2018
It's cold and it has been cold for a couple of weeks now. Winter season in addition to a very busy teaching period in the job reduced my available time to get out on the streets very much. Until today: the announced weather was cold but sunny, and no teaching, no...
Backlight
Feb 21, 2018
I recently understood that my adventure into film photography also broadened my perspectives on street photography: candid people-centered street photography is what pushed me towards this genre of photography, but film photography pushed me to go further into ways of...
Working selectively with colors – again
Feb 14, 2018
Sometimes, the colors of the clothes attract my attention, but usually, I still decide to convert the later completely to monochrome. For this week's post - and after my first color experimentations - I decided to share two pictures of an elderly man who was pushing a...
In a rush – Experimenting with blur
Feb 7, 2018
Many of my pictures are shot with shutter priority to compensate for the fact that often my the subjects of my photos are moving as do I. Lately, I was starting to experiment a little bit more with wanted blur in my images. While not often simple, I am slowly getting...
Call me maybe
Jan 31, 2018
Our relationships with our smartphones are extremely interesting and someone who either looks at his or her smartphone or is actually calling someone else presents for me always a potential candidate for a picture. By the way, there is an excellent book titled...
Strangers passing by – Back to my first love
Jan 24, 2018
It is time for my first post in 2018 where I get back to what initially motivated me to get into street photography: people. This week, I will simply share a couple of photos with people I captured in the streets at different moments and in different locations. There...
Barefooted or not
Jan 17, 2018
As a street photographer you should always have your camera ready to shoot. This is probably one of the major recommendations made in books and blogs on street photography. When I went to the Bavarian capital Munich a couple of months back, I started to fully...
Experiments (2nd part): Leading lines
Jan 10, 2018
As a second part of putting in practice other ways to get into street photography, I focused on leading lines by excluding people completely from the pictures. This experiment - or exercice - should help me to make leading lines a part of my future composition...
Experiments (1st part): Objects
Jan 3, 2018
First things first: as this is my first post in the year 2018, please let me wish you a very happy new year! In the aim to try out other techniques and subjects, which broadly fall within the category of street photography (part of my new year's resolutions), I...
Capturing interesting looks and expressions
Dec 27, 2017
Let us get back from the "behind the subject" discussion last week to the importance to capture the facial expression and intensity of looks in my street photography. Sometimes, it seems like the individuals detected the camera in my hands, but usually somewhere near...
Behind the subject
Dec 20, 2017
Faces and their expressions are part of pictures is something I value a lot in my approach to street photography. However, sometimes standing behind the subject and taking the picture with the direction of the subject's look has some appeal as well. This perspective...
Colors
Dec 13, 2017
As with the squared format, I got very much used to converting my pictures to monochrome, which is probably most often described as being the setting for street photography. But for several years now, street photography with colors has gained some momentum. The work...