Category: Visual Communications

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WHY I use a DSLR for Street Photography & How (Nikon D850) by Samuel Streetlife

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.

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David Yarrow’s Dallas – D Magazine

By Jonathan Thompson | October 14, 2022|9:51 am |Photography by David Yarrow, Portraits by Henrik Olund
Treasure Chest: Yarrow with The Wolves of Wall Street, 2019 Henrik Olund

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2022/october/david-yarrow-photographer-dallas/

This is an interesting article and a unique perspective on Dallas as a photography setting from such a world-renowned British fine art photographer. Anyone who has lived in Dallas for any amount of time knows it is an ever-changing city with a rapidly evolving culture. As one on the inside, it is always fun to hear how people on the outside looking in perceive the city. The only constant here is change.

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Photo Subjects at Home

It is often said that one does not need to travel far to get good photos, there are many a few feet from your door if you just look for them. Sometimes, they can be a few feet inside your door. Then black and white/grayscsle image of the lamp, window blind slats, and black background screen on a stand is a few feet from my bed. It has been there a while, but I didn’t “see” it there and visualize it as in this picture until I woke up the other morning and there it was! One thing I enjoy about photography is how it encourages he to look deeper into object around me and grab a nice image from the mundane.

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Bell UH-1D Iroquois Huey at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas Texas

This is a picture I took at sundown of a Bell UH-1D Iroquois Huey Helicopter on static display. Because of the fading light, I was able to capture a nice, silhouetted image of its iconic shape contrasted against a muted gradient of transitioning sky colors at twilight. For those interested, this aircraft is on permanent static display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field in Dallas Texas. There is a wonderful history behind this particular helicopter and it is a story worth checking out. You can find it in the link below.

https://www.flightmuseum.com/

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Photography and Images Rediscovered

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and with the Trinity River at flood stage in the foreground.

Photographs Rediscovered

I have often said that when capturing images, as soon as the camera shutter closes one has visually captured the past. It may not feel that way while in the moment, but it will become increasingly apparent as time passes and the captured image is revisited.

Shooting Photographs sometimes begins and ends in one day for me with a 2 step process of capturing images, then downloading them to my computer. Once downloaded, unless I am time-limited, it may be some time before I get around to revisiting some of those images. It is later, when going through my tens of thousands of images, that I often “rediscover” images that I had forgotten about and depending on how much time has passed, may have taken on some level of historical significance. This picture was taken the last (and 20th) time the Trinity River crested above 40ft, a literal “high water mark” that has only been exceeded 22 times since the flood of 1908, before the Dallas levee system was built. Only time will tell if this image will gain any real historical significance, but for me, it created an opportunity to experience a nice morning at daybreak in order to capture a rare image of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge with the Dallas skyline reflected in a body of water that is the flooded Trinity River. I am not sure when an opportunity like that will arise again but was happy to recently “rediscover” this image.

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Statue at Fair Park

I always enjoy seeing the statues out of all the attractions at Fair Park and watching how the light and shadows change throughout the day on those statues facing south, toward the sun. They are artistically lit with artificial light at night in very colorful and creative patterns. I have yet to get a good picture of them at night but plan to on my next visit. This statue is the work of Lawrence Tenney Stevens.

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History in the Moment

Often when taking a picture, it is merely to capture the image of a subject I find interesting. The image visually captures that moment, often in a fraction of a second. What I don’t know exactly at the time, and only discover later is how I captured a piece of history as it was and will never be seen again. The level of importance of that image and it’s historical significance varies and is subjective, but what I find fascinating is how the visual image of that moment in time stays exactly the same, and yet how it is perceived can change greatly as the history surrounding it evolves.