Three from the East End of London
Mar 11, 2017 09:26:46 #
The first is Brick Lane and it's very popular beigel bakery. The second two are from the Columbia Road flower market, a half mile long street market that takes place each Sunday.
Mar 11, 2017 09:56:52 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
All well done Mr. Smith, I will say the oof foreground flowers in the third draw my eye...if I had to pick it would be #2.
Mar 11, 2017 10:00:28 #
Mar 11, 2017 10:06:50 #
R.G. wrote:
They seem darker and more vignetted than your usual style - is that deliberate?
They are perhaps darker than I had intended but perhaps it's because I can't get out of the house much at the moment... my mood is dark
Mar 11, 2017 10:09:34 #
Frank2013 wrote:
All well done Mr. Smith, I will say the oof foreground flowers in the third draw my eye...if I had to pick it would be #2.
Hello Frank, thanks for commenting. I think the flowers should be quite strong otherwise it would be just a row of people looking at nothing in particular... but that's just me
Mar 11, 2017 10:17:05 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
Graham Smith wrote:
A well done job with that....Hello Frank, thanks for commenting. I think the flowers should be quite strong otherwise it would be just a row of people looking at nothing in particular... but that's just me
Mar 11, 2017 10:21:36 #
a festive air with flowers all about - Good priorities your country has, and a bagel at Beigel's to boot.
Mar 11, 2017 10:33:04 #
pfrancke wrote:
a festive air with flowers all about - Good priorities your country has, and a bagel at Beigel's to boot.
Salt beef or smoked salmon in your beigel Piet?
Mar 11, 2017 10:40:18 #
Graham Smith wrote:
As long as they slather on some cream cheese, you betcha!smoked salmon in your beigel?
#2 catches my fancy because I enjoy making up stories about what has caught their attention.
Good to see you, Graham!
Mar 11, 2017 19:30:08 #
Graham Smith wrote:
The first is Brick Lane and it's very popular beigel bakery. The second two are from the Columbia Road flower market, a half mile long street market that takes place each Sunday.
All three of these are wonderful. You have a marvelous way of including details like signs that I find very engaging. The flowers in the third shot do, as you mentioned, make that shot. All three are very good street photos. Scratch that. They are just plain good photos. Thanks for posting. I hope it was the weather that was keeping you indoors and that all is well.
Erich
Mar 12, 2017 08:43:12 #
I've missed you, Graham. I've been thinking about you. Nice images.
Mar 12, 2017 09:28:40 #
Mar 15, 2017 09:08:11 #
Lance Pearson
Loc: Viriginia
Interesting shots but what interests me more is why they were shot in more or less monotones rather than color? That's a choice. What was the reason for the choice if I could ask. I like how there is a depth of field to the scenes on the second and third especially and wonder if the "mood" would have been different in color. Nice compositions if darker than I would probably have liked. Still, good work at least to my non professional eye.
Mar 15, 2017 11:31:17 #
Lance Pearson wrote:
Interesting shots but what interests me more is why they were shot in more or less monotones rather than color? That's a choice. What was the reason for the choice if I could ask. I like how there is a depth of field to the scenes on the second and third especially and wonder if the "mood" would have been different in color. Nice compositions if darker than I would probably have liked. Still, good work at least to my non professional eye.
Hello Lance, there are a number of reasons for shooting street photography in b&w, not the least being taste.
Street photography has been practised since the very earliest days of photography, when the only choice was b&w, so perhaps tradition plays a large part in the choice.
B&W is very useful in setting mood and atmosphere, also it gives a different perception of life, by removing colour you remove unnecessary information, someone in brightly coloured clothing can distract from the main protagonists who may be dressed less brightly. Also faces can be better defined when the brightness of the surroundings are removed.
Structure and composition become more important than "nice" colours. Shape and shadow come to the fore.
There is a much quoted saying:
"When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”
Graham
Mar 15, 2017 13:44:27 #
Graham Smith wrote:
They are perhaps darker than I had intended but perhaps it's because I can't get out of the house much at the moment... my mood is dark
Are you ok or is it just the season?
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