My first street photography candid portrait (comments welcome)

12 years 8 months ago #117358 by eryck
I was out with my camera today hoping to get some portraits of people, if i get a few candid's I'm lucky. I was at this for the first time, any one I can get in my view finder and click, if they want to talk I am available for eye contact after the shot but no one seems to care. This guy was practically posing for me, he moved into the light, I must have 3 pix of him, what do you think of this one?


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12 years 8 months ago #117361 by Rob pix4u2
Not bad but i would have a tighter crop with less of the building to the left

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12 years 8 months ago #117364 by eryck
I already cropped it, hes in front of a bus stop, wondering if i should include the sign this time and go for a vertical?
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12 years 8 months ago #117365 by Rob pix4u2
he seems far out in the frame to the right, almost like an afterthought

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12 years 8 months ago #117368 by eryck
I decided to leave out any distractions.

Street photography is quite a challenge and a good way to understand composition,
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12 years 8 months ago #117371 by Rob pix4u2
much better-now it's a portrait

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12 years 8 months ago #117372 by Scotty
I'd sharpen it up a bit.

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12 years 8 months ago #117375 by eryck


added contrast and sharpened ... re crop (:unsure: )
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12 years 8 months ago #117377 by Scotty
Do you mind if i post a sharpened version by myself? :P

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12 years 8 months ago #117378 by eryck

Scotty wrote: Do you mind if i post a sharpened version by myself? :P


do you want the original file?
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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #117379 by Scotty

eryck wrote:

Scotty wrote: Do you mind if i post a sharpened version by myself? :P


do you want the original file?


Sure, i'll post what I did on here, with the smaller file.

If you don't like it, i'll take it down. Just wanna help ;)



It's subtle.

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12 years 8 months ago #117382 by eryck
it is subtle, hard to tell but I do get a impression that your version is more finalized, something about, seems more "packaged" i dont know how to say exactly but I like where your going with it, what program did you use and also what did you do? I like it.
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12 years 8 months ago #117383 by Scotty
Here is a quick job of a technique I use when i want to really make an impression with light. It's a quick job, but you get the drift. I did it to just him.

Make it a little more gritty, makes it a little more 3d.

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12 years 8 months ago #117387 by eryck
yes gritty is a good word, But now thats last one is in my memeroy when I look back the others look really clooudy.

Nice idea people are always interested in images of people with amazing weather torn faces like from the desert or something, you got that going on. cool idea.
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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #117390 by Scotty
Yeah, just trying to get the creative juices flowing

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