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Miraculous apparition
The advantage, in some manner, of street photography, is that the photographer can go out to the streets for prospecting without a determined goal in mind or a precise assignment or duty to bear. It reduces the pressure and allows the photographer to relax and to freely devote his time to his real quest, catching bits and pieces of everyday life. Continue reading
Girl who missed the subway – NYC
This picture was taken back in 2007 a few weeks after I started photography. I had taken out my tripod, very determined to be serious about photography. And what is more serious than a photographer, his camera, and his giant tripod, waiting patiently for the Subway to arrive in 42th station? My intentions were very serious at start, I wanted to catch a motion blurred subway, with long exposure, coming in an empty station. Continue reading
African american woman running under the rain – Harlem
Doing street photography requires some accurate skills. You are obviously all the timing looking for the great picture, and waiting for this decisive moment to happen, the one that will appear so strongly in your viewfinder that you will just know that you just took The good picture and you saved the day. Continue reading
Three Women and a puddle – Meat Packing District
This picture was taken in the meat packing district back in September 2007. May be it’s not worth mentioning it was just taken after a rain shower.
I had spotted this large puddle and found it interesting because it was reflecting the building across the street, and also because the pavement was adding some interestingness, with the pronounced textures of the stones, as well as the multiple levels of reflections when wet. So I took the position, half crouched on the sidewalk in front of the puddle, and waited for interesting subjects to pass-by in front of my lens. Continue reading
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Tagged B&W, Cobble, Meat_Packing, Pavement, People, Puddle, Rain, Reflection, Woman
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About a pair of green eyes…
Bored to take street shots of candids, buildings and walls, I put an ad on Craiglist New York in order to find people interested in playing the role of top model for the beginner photographer that I am. Much to my surprise, I had several answers, more or less serious at this time, and more or less interesting. Eventually Christy accepted my ad and we agreed upon an appointment in Soho to take street shots. I took a lot of pictures during the session, and eventually found this one very interesting. It was shot on a bench in Soho, the sun light was reflected from a building across the street, giving a soft and diffuse brightness on the face and in the eyes.
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Woman waiting for the metro
This image was taken in the NY subway after a long wait this past summer 2007. Platforms are perticularly hot in this season, and I was trying to capture this heat feeling in the subway. This shot is very opportunistic, which is not surprising for a street shot. The woman just stepped in front of me when I was trying to shoot the train coming from the right in the station. I did not ask for anything, the opportunity came by itself. Continue reading
Boy climbing a wall – West Village
The boy was climbing the wall but was feeling guilty in a certain manner, and he was glancing at his mother who had passed on the right just to make sure everything was alright. Who knows, she might have not seen what the boy was doing. I applied a B&W filter, which renders well on this picture on my opinion, and provides something out of time. Would this picture been shot 50 years ago, it would not make a big difference. It is like an intemporal scene which could have happened at any epoch. We might call this picture the intemporal innocence. Continue reading
African American with a red dress – Harlem
This picture has been taken back in September 2007 on a rainy day. Well, it was a rainy day, and we had been wandering for a good shot all the afternoon long in Harlem, waiting most of the time the end of the multiple rain showers to output our gear. Suddenly, when all hopes to get a beautiful picture had disappeared, a bright sun pointed its rays and shed it’s light on 125th avenue in Harlem. And it was the golden hour, when the sun is low and light gets some warmer tones. It lasted only half an hour, during which we shot frenetically people in front of this red wall. Continue reading