Trying my hand at street photography

[clovishound]

I don't see me getting into it, or having the chutzpah to walk up to strangers and take their picture, which is the mainstay of most street photography. Having said that, the Pup wanted to go to downtown Charleston this past weekend. I trailed along behind and tried my hand at, mostly, some of the architectural elements. here are a few.

I found the doors of this boarded up building rather interesting. B&W was in my mind when I took it, and felt like that was the best way to go when I edited it.

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Neat looking arched doorway at the rear of a theater.

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Liked the idea of making a cross image of this imposing lion on a door.

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And this is probably the best of the bunch. I like the play of geometric shapes and colors, and the cupola anchoring the image. An interesting sky helped as well.

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[BrokenolMarine]

I do get into street photography at times, mostly shadow, reflections, and the effects of windows and angles. Sometimes the architecture will capture my attention. There are some people shots that do it, mostly the candid shots where they don't even know they are in them, the long shots with the telephoto.

[The Wiz]

Well, I am a professional poser. Let me explain. I fish on a boardwalk in a local preserve. A lot of pro photographers go there because of a mill and dam that's there plus a lot of nature. It seems that a lot of them can't resist taking a picture of an old, lone fisherman with his beat up fishing hat, casting his line out. Usually with a long lens. I pretend i don't see them, just act naturally not catching anything. The usual state of my fishing. Sometimes they stop and we talk fishing. Other times they just walk on by not wanting to intrude on my solitude I guess. So yes, I am a poser.

[Coach]

I like the pictures.

Here’s an arch door picture I took at a little church in Scotland.

[clovishound]

Beautiful.

There are a lot of interesting doors, windows etc, in downtown Charleston.

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[markiver54]

Charleston is a VERY interesting city.

[Hatchdog]

Love how the first window pic captured both the reflection and the items inside. Well done!

[clovishound]

I took a number of images of this window. The bottles in the window were what drew me to take some pictures.

This one has a somewhat "ghostly" look to the bottles.

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I tried it in B&W, but think I like the color version just a little better, although the "ghostly look was enhanced in the B&W.

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[Coach]

Here’s a street shot from Chicago

[clovishound]

The Pup and I made it out to downtown Charleston this weekend. I Tried my hand at some long exposure images. I know, everybody and their dog with a camera around here has a picture of the pineapple fountain. I ended up doing a sky replacement, as the original was drab, and blended in with the spray at the top of the fountain.

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Tried it in B&W

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[CT_Shooter]

Beautifully crafted shots, CH.

The B&W version of the Pineapple Fountain is quite dramatic. Photos with long exposures of flowing water always seem so peaceful to me. Surreal. Thanks.

[BrokenolMarine]

I like the ghostly bottles the best.

[daytime dave]

Great photographs. Keep them coming.

[Hatchdog]

I have to say that as good as my dog is with his camera he has never made moving water look as good as you did.

Nice pic.

[clovishound]

Here's another.

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[CT_Shooter]

Here's another.

This isn't one of my favorites, CH. The (intended) depth of field is just a tad too close, so that the gull's beak is ever so slightly out of focus. Other than that, I see brush strokes on the painted siding. Nice. Are the flags at half staff?

[clovishound]

Are the flags at half staff?

No, this was a flag hung from a large construction crane. I would have like to have had the flag flying in the opposite direction, but I haven't learned how to change the wind yet.

[Hatchdog]

Are the flags at half staff?

No, this was a flag hung from a large construction crane. I would have like to have had the flag flying in the opposite direction, but I haven't learned how to change the wind yet.

As long as you are at it change the gull to an eagle

[clovishound]

As long as you are at it change the gull to an eagle

Actually, with the new AI generative capabilities of Photoshop, I could probably do that. It may not be long before you can snap an extremely crappy cell phone image and get AI software to automatically turn it into a very good looking image.

I know I've posted this one before, but this is a composite photo I did earlier this year. I had a picture with the geese in focus, but no moon. I had another of the moon with no geese. I also had several of the geese and the moon, but only the moon was in focus. I took the moon image by itself and added the geese from the other image. I also removed one of the geese that had a branch covering a good bit of him, and then repositioned another to fill the space. It made for a nice picture, but I found it hard to feel good about it. I screwed up when I took it, although in my defense I only had a few seconds to set up and take the shot when I heard the flock heading my way.

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This one from this morning required no extreme measures. Other than be careful not to annoy the nest enough to evoke a response.

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