A Few From Hippyville Today

dkapp

I've been shooting a lot of landscapes lately, so I decided to do a little street photography today. These pictures were all taken in the Haight & Ashbury District of San Francisco.

In post processing, I applied a lomo action to help give a different feel.

I spent a little time inside the shops while my girlfriend did her thing. One place has some very strange shoes. I'm not sure how anyone could wear them.




Some just looked like weapons.




There is a lot of construction going on these days. Everything will get a fresh coat of paint when they are done. This one is just waiting its turn.




As always, there were the beggers. It seems that they are getting younger and younger. It's a shame, but a fact of life here in the city.




When were were done shopping, it was time to find some food and a drink. It looks like this one gets more active as the sun goes down.




While this one is open all hours.



I hope you enjoyed the pictures.
Dave

Andy

great set, dave!

Dee

Lomo Action?

dkapp wrote:

In post processing, I applied a lomo action to help give a different feel.


Dave

Where do I get one? I love the vibrant "in your face" graphic effect!

We went to Crissy Field late afternoon, beautiful sky, did you catch it?

dkapp

Dee wrote:

Where do I get one? I love the vibrant "in your face" graphic effect!

We went to Crissy Field late afternoon, beautiful sky, did you catch it?

I missed the sunset & most of the good weather today. I spent most of the day running around w/ the gf, then back home to watch the game, or should I say commercials.

My cars lease just came up this weekend, so I had to turn it in. Now I'm at the mercy of Muni & my gf's schedule. This should be interesting...maybe a vespa is in my future

Dave

Jeremy Hall

A little hint?
Could you describe your "lomo action?" I consider myself pretty versed in PS, played around and could arrive at your contrast and colors with some of my photos a few different ways. Just curious on your basic methodology. Thanks for any tips. Love the photos - subject, composition, post-processing.

obelix

Hey, unfair, we were supposed to go to Haight & Ashbury together

What is a lobo action?

The first shot, hmm, hmm.

dkapp wrote:

I've been shooting a lot of landscapes lately, so I decided to do a little street photography today. These pictures were all taken in the Haight & Ashbury District of San Francisco.

gus

Thats a great set dave....really nice colours

GREAPER

I like them a lot Dave,

Fantastic colors and a nice effect.

I think the compositions would have stood on their own with standard post.

Nice set.

dkapp

Jeremy Hall wrote:

Could you describe your "lomo action?" I consider myself pretty versed in PS, played around and could arrive at your contrast and colors with some of my photos a few different ways. Just curious on your basic methodology. Thanks for any tips. Love the photos - subject, composition, post-processing.

The 1st & 4th picture were processed normally, while the others I gave full treatment.

The lomo action adjusts the color, saturation & contrast in many levels & uses different blending options to create the saturated, burnt, dodged, blown out looks. It's taken me a long time to get my technique & workflow on this.

If I get some free time, I'll put together a tutorial...better yet, I should combine all the basic lomo actions I have into one monster that actually works. Right now I'm running multiple, then doing my own adjustments to get what I need. Not a simple workflow & more time consuming than it should be.

Dave

dkapp

obelix wrote:

Hey, unfair, we were supposed to go to Haight & Ashbury together

What is a lobo action?

The first shot, hmm, hmm.

I know...we should have got together today. It looks like we were both downtown

The lomo action is actually an effort, sometime poor execution to get digital files to look like the classic lomo camera images.

Dave

dkapp

Humungus wrote:

Thats a great set dave....really nice colours

Thanks Gus! Hows the Nikon vs. Canon thing going?

dkapp

GREAPER wrote:

I like them a lot Dave,

Fantastic colors and a nice effect.

I think the compositions would have stood on their own with standard post.

Nice set.

Thanks Greaps. I processed these both normally, and decided to do something fun. I just had a wild hair today & needed to get out of my rut.

I've had a creative block from hell the last two weeks. I think I was just trying to hard to make things happen.

Dave

fish

Really unique stuff, dave. nice!

gus

dkapp wrote:

Thanks Gus! Hows the Nikon vs. Canon thing going?

like a mad womans custard mate

pathfinder

I like the first few images a lot - The use of strong primary colors reminds me of some of Jay Maisal's work. Nicely done, Dave!

Jeremy Hall

Figured
I figured it wasn't a quick, one or two step thing. But, often times quality and uniqueness requires a little more than the every day guy is willing to do. I would love to see a primer on some of your steps to get there. Love the look.

gubbs

Cool set Dave
See those "weapon boots", I went to a friends wedding where the bride and groom were both wearing those.... Bridesmaids had blue hair and silver dresses too, they looked like the girls from space 1999 or UFO (Gerry Anderson shows of the 70's)

dkapp

pathfinder wrote:

I like the first few images a lot - The use of strong primary colors reminds me of some of Jay Maisal's work. Nicely done, Dave!

Thanks Pathfinder. I was actually out trying to get some ideas for the next challenge. Stupid me realized when I got home it wasn't primary colors this challenge, but Predominant Colors. haha

I knew I should have wrote it down.

dkapp

Jeremy Hall wrote:

I figured it wasn't a quick, one or two step thing. But, often times quality and uniqueness requires a little more than the every day guy is willing to do. I would love to see a primer on some of your steps to get there. Love the look.

Give me a couple days & I'll see what I can get to you. I'm swamped the first part of the week.

Dave

dkapp

gubbs wrote:

Cool set Dave
See those "weapon boots", I went to a friends wedding where the bride and groom were both wearing those.... Bridesmaids had blue hair and silver dresses too, they looked like the girls from space 1999 or UFO (Gerry Anderson shows of the 70's)

I bet that was a show. I had a few "goth" friends back home. They would love it out here.

Was the wedding fun? I would imagine they had a pretty good reception.

Dave

damonff

Those are all excellent. Great technique there with the post Dave. I'm not going to ask you how-to because I don't want to copy you but, yeah, those are refreshingly different...

marlof

These made me check your galleries. And you photoblog. Color me impressed.

dkapp

damonff wrote:

Those are all excellent. Great technique there with the post Dave. I'm not going to ask you how-to because I don't want to copy you but, yeah, those are refreshingly different...

Thanks Damon. It felt great to break the landscape scene and start shooting for myself again. It was the most fun I've had with photography in weeks.

Dave

dkapp

marlof wrote:

These made me check your galleries. And you photoblog. Color me impressed.

Thanks marlof. I appreciate the kind words

I can't wait to get the film back from yesterdays outing for comparison.

Dave

Michiel de Brieder

I love the abstract look Dave, absolutely stunning, I can imagine it can look 'overdone' but I think you've taken the right pictures and right amount of post processing :encore

John Mueller

Groovy shots Dave:D
And you post processing is far out

DoctorIt

Thanks for taking us along with you. That action gives a cool effect

ian408

Dave,

Very San Francisco. By that, I also mean very cool.

Ian

dkapp

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

I love the abstract look Dave, absolutely stunning, I can imagine it can look 'overdone' but I think you've taken the right pictures and right amount of post processing :encore

Thanks Michiel! I appreciate the kind words.

Dave

dkapp

MHJS wrote:

Groovy shots Dave:D
And you post processing is far out

Thank you MHJS. I'm glad my process is getting good reviews. I didn't know what to expect when I put it up there

Dave

dkapp

DoctorIt wrote:

Thanks for taking us along with you. That action gives a cool effect

Thanks DR!

I'm trying to figure out how Fred Miranda puts his together. I'd like to get my action ready for prime time

Dave