Still working on street photos - C and C appreciated: Here are a couple of street pics converted to black and white. I'm always looking to improve techniques so C and C always welcome.

gym Loc: Athens, Georgia

Here are a couple of street pics converted to black and white. I'm always looking to improve techniques so C and C always welcome.

John Lawrence

gym wrote:

Here are a couple of street pics converted to black and white. I'm always looking to improve techniques so C and C always welcome.

I'm trying to learn more about street photography myself and liked your shots. I like the pensive pose in the first shot the best. You did a great job taking both shots but I think the gentleman portrays more negative emotion in the second shot. It is real life, though, so the gentleman probably has good reason to express those feelings. Thanks for sharing. I learned something.

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

I like the first

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

Gym,

Your processing is pretty good.

Composition in 1 is problematic. Nose should typically not break or come close to breaking the plane of the cheek. (I have one example of an image that does break this rule ,but it is a very strong image!)

Light ring around the neck creates a secondary light focal point.

Catchlights look unnatural. They look non reflective but look like they are generating light.

Correcting these things in the future will improve your images.
It's more compositional than anything.

Typically you need more room out front on a nose in shot. (I break this rule too but it's more obvious here.)

Good luck and congrats on the shots!

gym Loc: Athens, Georgia

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Thanks Russ. I'll work on the catch lights. I was trying to keep the nose and the eye from breaking the lateral plane, but as you said, the nose came very close. I'm still trying new things in PP, but have a very long way to go.

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

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I understand and agree with your comments except for the nose. Would appreciate further explanation. Thanks

gym Loc: Athens, Georgia

PalePictures wrote:

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Here's another from the same shoot and this time I did not try to add to the catch lights. I just did minimal enhancing of the ones that were naturally there.

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

ecobin wrote:

I understand and agree with your comments except for the nose. Would appreciate further explanation. Thanks

It is generally considered not good practice to have the nose come close to or break the plane of the face. How far the turn of the head is relative to the camera is subjective. The idea is that it makes the nose look large especially on females. I use this rule on my street shots generally. I have included a link that states the rule.(See rule #16.) and gives an example.

http://desmond-downs.blogspot.com/2010/05/40-rules-of-portraiture.html

jimberton Loc: Michigan's Upper Peninsula

PalePictures wrote:

It is generally considered not good practice to have the nose come close to or break the plane of the face. How far the turn of the head is relative to the camera is subjective. The idea is that it makes the nose look large especially on females. I use this rule on my street shots generally. I have included a link that states the rule.(See rule #16.) and gives an example.

http://desmond-downs.blogspot.com/2010/05/40-rules-of-portraiture.html

great article! thanks for the link.

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

PalePictures wrote:

It is generally considered not good practice to have the nose come close to or break the plane of the face. How far the turn of the head is relative to the camera is subjective. The idea is that it makes the nose look large especially on females. I use this rule on my street shots generally. I have included a link that states the rule.(See rule #16.) and gives an example.

http://desmond-downs.blogspot.com/2010/05/40-rules-of-portraiture.html

Thanks very much.

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

PalePictures wrote:

It is generally considered not good practice to have the nose come close to or break the plane of the face. How far the turn of the head is relative to the camera is subjective. The idea is that it makes the nose look large especially on females. I use this rule on my street shots generally. I have included a link that states the rule.(See rule #16.) and gives an example.

http://desmond-downs.blogspot.com/2010/05/40-rules-of-portraiture.html

Thanks very much.