As announced in my earlier blog post, today I will share a couple of pictures taken with my recently acquired rangefinder camera: the Yashica Electro 35 GS. To get used to the camera, I chose the very flexible Ilford HP5+, which I shot at box speed of ISO 400. The day...
Slowly but surely I understand how photographers - amateurs and professionals, but film photographers in particular - accumulate cameras. After the Rollei 35 S (see my earlier posts on the camera, the HP5+, and the Pan F 50 experiences) and the fun Konica C35 EF I...
We are now in December and Christmas is approaching. Time to publish a photo I took beginning of September. I took the picture - again from the hip - when walking by the man and his posture as well as his expression had something quite charismatic. The man was...
After the encouraging results with my first roll of film in my recently acquired Rollei 35 S, I went out again with this fun and fully manual camera. The last time, I experimented with pushing the Ilford HP5 plus 400 to 1600 and compensated for the use of a yellow...
One question you might be confronted with is: where do you draw the line? Raw street photography can be really brutal in its approach and the subjects photographed. In one of the books on street photography, which I really like a lot and which is a big help when...
You might have noticed up to now, that all pictures I presented here were in square format. As people are the center of my photos, I really like how the square format somewhat strengthens the focus on the subject. However, sometimes, the square format does not really...
November isn't probably a month we like very much: November is not really known for its sunny afternoons (just think of the Guns N'Roses song), summer is long gone now, the days are getting really short, and we are not yet in a more joyful Christmas mood. Funnily, I...
Another exception to the "one post each Wednesday" rule: Yesterday, I received the developed roll of film I shot with the Rollei 35 S (see my earlier post). When I handed in the exposed film last Monday and I were told that I can come back on Friday afternoon, I was...
I am starting to have some trouble in visiting cities as a tourist and just do some sightseeing. When abroad for a conference recently, I was happy to have a morning off and to shoot some photos. Before discovering street photography, I was interested in sightseeing....
In all books I have read on (street) photography, the question of manual versus autofocus is usually addressed - sometimes even in one dedicated chapter. The answer to this question seems to be not straightforward - this is very much up to the individual preferences...
Between mid-September and beginning of October, Munich (Germany) welcomes around six million visitors - who usually drink as much beer measured in liters. For Bavarians - and others - the Oktoberfest is the occasion to dress up and wear their traditional costume...
I deviate from my "one post each Wednesday" rule, because I am too excited to wait for Wednesday. This weekend, I received a time machine back to film photography in my mail: a black Rollei 35 S camera! What's the deal? I started my discovery to street photography...
Taking pictures of two and more individuals engaged in a conversation during weekly markets often feels like they are letting you - just for a fraction of a second - being part of the exchanged words and shared moments. This week I decided to share a couple of...
As said - and repeatedly so - I am always drawn towards individuals who somewhat stand out from the crowd. And those individuals often happen to be elderly women or men. Instead of a weekly market, this time I visited a small and lovely village in the valley of a...
Looking through my photos made me realize an impression I already had: it is often elderly persons who draw my attention to them. It might be their calm and steady way to walk in a more frantic environment of the crowd or their completely still and charismatic posture...
We are now in October and summer seems to definitely leave its place for the fall season. Good news: I still have pictures from the summer I would like to share and hope to extend some summer feelings. The different photos I published here so far showed one or two...
This week, I am very happy to share another one of my absolute favorite pictures with you. As described in my last post, scenes at weekly markets in smaller and medium cities provide a multitude of situations and moments of and between people that are personally for...
I am starting to get a little bit further down the road in my discovery of street photography. How do I know that? I just do - with every hour more I spend outside with my camera ready for the next shot, I have the impression that I more and more know how to look for...
So far, I was not able to get out during the periods with warm and soft light conditions (i.e. morning or evening), but most often with typical August weather: sun with rather very hard light. One late afternoon in the park, however, the shadows were beginning to get...
Composition makes up a big part in photography - and so it does in street photography. While I am at first always drawn to interesting faces, I started to concentrate a little bit more on composition. The problem is that composition is more complex when you (still)...
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