I found this to be a captivating and insightful video on the subject of not only the topic of street photography, but overall photography in general. His mindset, and workflow from shooting to post editing to an image worth sharing and/or publishing is efficient and masterful.
Late in September 2022, I traveled to the Trinity River / Downtown Dallas area to shoot some pictures. Normally, I take a backpack with one of my Nikon DLSR cameras and lenses. This day, I wanted to travel light, so I just took my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and my Leica D-Lux 7.
While I had only planned to shoot a few river and skyline shots from a distance, then leave, that did not happen. As often happens, I began walking and exploring instead. I hiked down the levee to the Trinity River bottoms trail and kept walking when I discovered the view of some landmarks and infrastructure was very much different and interesting than what we all usually from street and ground (or drone) level. It was captivating, and I kept walking further, shooting pictures with my smartphone, until it “crashed.” There was a message saying the camera had overheated, so it had to close. It was only a mild 91 degrees, which is not hot by Dallas standards, and I’d never had any film or digital SLR/DLSR or.any camera for that matter “shut down” due to the heat, ever in my decades of shooting, including many middle of summer 100+ degree days in TX. The camera did not come back on no matter what I did, and I could see many potential good pictures ahead on the trail.
Fortunately, I had my taken my small Leica D-Lux 7 along with me. It was working, but as with moast mirrorless cameras, it was eating battery power up as I continued to shoot and didn’t have an extra battery. In the end, I was able to capture most of the images I wanted between the two cameras that day. The picture in this post of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge taken from below at the river botttom level was taken with my Leica after my smartphone “shut down.”
I experimented with the choice of camera gear I took with me that day and learned a lesson with that experience. Fortunately, it was not a serious shoot, and had it been, I would’ve had my backup Nikon cameras and gear available.
I am sharing this experience as a caveat for those who set out with a smartphone “only” to capture important images. Keep a backup camera close.
https://petapixel.com/2022/12/20/pentax-launches-new-35mm-camera-project-after-film-resurgence/
My interest in photography began in the film/darkroom days when I went to photography school and learned to shoot with all types of film format cameras, process color/b&w film and prints, and worked in a custom color photo lab after I graduated school. Over time, as I evolved into the digital age with all its possibilities, film faded away in my life. My Nikon Ftn 35 mm SLR sat dormant for decades, yet I carried it through life and many moves. I did think of selling it at one point but hung on to it, possibly for nostalgic reasons. What I never would have predicted is the resurgence of analog and film photography you see today and for me, an plan to shoot film with my 1970’s Nikon 35mm camera once again.
I always liked Nikon above others camera products then. I even used their lenses on my darkroom enlargers. I’ve always been interested in photography gear and back then always looked at the popular cameras of the day, especially if I was with someone who owned one. Outside of Canon and Nikon, when it came to 35 mm, I always had an appreciation of Pentax cameras and the quality niche they had in the market among the other big names. I was excited to see the news of this film project featuring Pentax. I look forward to seeing where it goes as well as shooting a roll of Kodak film with my 35 mm Nikon Ftn for the first time since my last roll in the 1990’s .
This is some of the best advice I have seen on how to grow professionally and personally in any life endeavor, but especially relevant to growing in a creative/technical world, specifically photography.
As one who evolved from the film/darkroom to digital age, I found this a very captivating video on street photography. From the 35mm Kodak Tri X 400 film days of street photography to today, all of the images produced over that span still fascinate me, regardless of how they were captured.
In this video, he captures the most stunning street photography images and video using a blend of the hardware and formats available over the span of 30+ years.
From a personal standpoint, I have much of the gear he uses in this video, from a small Leica D-Lux 7 pocket camera to a Nikon 35 mm film camera and lenses to a Nikon D750 full frame digital camera and lenses. His reason for using the gear is subjectify situational but aligns with what I feel work in capturing street photography images. Where we depart on that, is on many levels, mostly in the when, where how to use the small compact camera vs, the big body DLSR, and in using a manual lens on a DLSR. After watching this video, that will change.
He is shooting carnival scenes in this video, which I have done, but what he does here is nothing short of extraordinary. It gives me some great ideas to practice and use next time I am a State Fair and/or Carnival event. That practice will start today.
I found this to be a useful and low-cost, albeit more labor-intensive way to calibrate your monitor using a newer Samsung or iPhone and a manual monitor setting.
