Photographer Iwona Pinkowicz has evolved quite a bit since bidding her day job adieu to pursue photography full time. To refresh, Iwona is a fantastic street photographer who then got into street portraiture and earned a spot on our list of great women photographers to watch.
I grew up in Toronto Canada but moved to NYC to go to College. I spent most of my youth studying and working in Film and Television production, including teaching in a graduate department. As I got older NY changed and I changed.
The Ricoh GR II is and has been a hit with many photographers for a long time now. Based in part off of the classic Ricoh GR point and shoot film cameras that have forever been popular with street photographers, the Ricoh GR II brings modern updates to the previous camera.
Photographer Anirban Chatterjee is a Melbourne based photographer. He doesn't like labels, but if you were to label him, he'd be a street shooter. "Personally, I think myself as a narrator who uses the street as a stage and real people as characters to tell stories.
When you look at the street photographs of Omri Shomer, you start to see work that's typical of many photographers though in a different way involving the use of specific lighting, color and urban geometry.
The time-honored approach to improving one's photography has always been time spent out there taking pictures. Education, gallery shows, and reading photography books can do wonders for a person's development, but there is nothing that comes close to the importance of just going out there constantly for a long period of time.
We've featured Blu & Pace before on this website, and they're a couple who continue to astound me with the quality of their black and white photography. The due specialize in portrait, fashion and documentary photography--with a new series called Faces of Shanghai being are the fore of their new work.
"Photography to me is a very complex form that consists of vast amount of visual language. " explains Jett Inong. "It is more eloquent than verbal language itself. When we look into a manual to build or fix something, we are most likely reliant to the photographs rather than the typed words for instructions.
"Photography to me is a very complex form that consists of vast amount of visual language. " explains Jett Inong. "It is more eloquent than verbal language itself. When we look into a manual to build or fix something, we are most likely reliant to the photographs rather than the typed words for instructions.
If you were to liken any sort of photography genre to cinema, it would be tough to do so with street photography--but Daniel Valledor is sort of putting that claim to rest. You see, Dan is a photographer and DP based in Madrid.
The photography of Rinzi Ruiz has always has a very noir-esque look to it. His works over the years has been evolving quite a bit but still retains a lot of that core look to it. Rinzi attributes this to photographers like Ray K Metzker; but if you ask me it also looks a lot like the movies--and of recent he's been using the Fujifilm X100F.
Photographers that use the Fujifilm X series system professionally (or are interested in doing so) will be amazed to know that there are a number of fantastic lenses available to use for the system.
Photography has the power to transform the perspective of both viewer and photographer. The images that stick with us can transport you a world away and truly convey the soul of their subjects.
"Every street photographer has the occasional bad encounter. saysPhotographer Sebastian Siadecki. "Though I will say, it’s far more common to have an overtly positive reaction – like someone smiling, chatting me up or even thanking me – than a bad one.
One crucial element to pay attention to when it comes to street photography composition is to use interesting backgrounds. Massimo Giachetti has a keen eye for dramatic graffiti on the streets of New York, blending it with street subjects to create a visually stunning results.
My interest has always been to explore identity, emotions and experiences, in particular those influenced by existentialism and angst. It is almost certainly a little self-indulgent but it is entirely the product of my own experiences and difficulties as a child; of having to figure out who you are and how you’re going to ‘be’ when those around you don’t want you to ‘be’ with them.
Hi, I’m Xavier, a food photographer based in Brighton, U. K. This will be my 3rd year as a full time professional photographer. I’m a freelancer which means I work for and with many different clients in all sorts of projects.
Happy 2017! I’ve been sick for all of it, plus a few days so far, so I didn’t go out shooting this week. But I have plenty of photos to choose from for this topic. “Slice of life” might be my favorite subject matter for photography.
To create street photography with impact, one of the proven methods is to go dangerously close to the subjects. David Gleave, a Licentiatesship distinction holder in the prestigious Royal Photographic Society (RPS) adopted the "in your face" approach in his street photography work.
For a really long time, I've never truly been a fan of the Sony RX100 series of cameras, but then earlier this year Sony launched their Sony RX100 V--and somehow or another things changed. The company has been making steady improvements to the camera over the years with a better aperture value through the zoom range, the addition of an EVF, improved battery life, improved autofocus, better video, and better image quality.
There are typically two extremes to street photography approach: one being completely stealthy and ninja-like to capture spontaneous, unposed and original moments happening on the streets as if the photographer was merely observing without active interaction (eg Henri Cartier-Bresson), as opposed to straight in the face, direct confrontational approach (eg Bruce Gilden).
Kaiman Wong (who has recently left DigitalRev TV) continued to create video contents in his own Youtube Channel and we found his recent video comparison of popular street photography lenses, 50mm vs 35mm vs 28mm to be educational and useful especially for newcomers to street photography.
It's no secret: lots of photographers are drooling over the idea of shooting with the Fujifilm GFX 50S medium format camera. The idea of owning something bigger than full frame 35mm (though not even the size of true digital 645) is something that is bound to attract a whole lot of photographers.
Bruce Gilden is renowned for his direct confrontational and to a certain level, controversial approach in street photography which is a stark contrast to the traditional observe and shoot discretely methodology and this has spawned endless debates and discussions on how street photography should be defined.
I think every photographer can relate to the first time that they fell in love with a camera, but the act of becoming smitten with a piece of gear is perhaps nowhere as important than with street photography.
The Leica 28cm f5. 6 lens (or the Leica Summaron-M 28 mm f5. 6) was recently re-released by the company--touting a classic look that it can deliver in addition to an incredibly overall small size.
This is not going to be a popular opinion. However, in the course of starting a discussion, sometimes it is helpful to speak from a dissenting position. I want to talk about street photography.
In Street Photography, photographers can use the new Fujifilm X-T2's tilting LCD screen with ease to get the images they want to capture.
If you wanted to go for a premium point and shoot camera of some sort, then the best of the best is easily awarded to the Sony RX1r II and the Leica Q. With their full frame sensors and fast aperture lenses, they're bound to be appreciated by many photographers.