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Philadelphia Squared

mikepennmikepenn Registered Users Posts: 214 Major grins
edited March 12, 2010 in Street and Documentary
My cropped square street photography of Philadelphia.

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    bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited March 9, 2010
    good stuff make me wanna go play in the streets :D
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    pixelparablepixelparable Registered Users Posts: 27 Big grins
    edited March 9, 2010
    seven and twelve are so awesome....the rest are good too...i just really like those alot :)
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    dixondukedixonduke Registered Users Posts: 197 Major grins
    edited March 9, 2010
    What a great set. clap.gif

    I really like 6, 9 & 13.

    Thank you for sharing.
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    RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,931 moderator
    edited March 10, 2010
    pixelparable wrote:
    seven and twelve are so awesome....the rest are good too...i just really like those alot :)

    15524779-Ti.gif I also like 19 and 20 quite a bit. Well done. thumb.gif
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    black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,321 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    Hey Mike,

    This is pretty impressive work. I'm curious about photo #1. It's obviously a panned shot but there's something unique about it, at least to my eyes. Parts of the car to the front, below, and rear of the driver are slightly blurred, yet his face seems much sharper in focus. Is that just an effect I'm perceiving that's not really there, or did you somehow selectively sharpen his face? I can't imagine that the chosen F-stop would have been the causative agent here because the whole car is pretty much on the same plane relative to your position.

    Thanks for sharing your visions with us.

    Tom
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    mikepennmikepenn Registered Users Posts: 214 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    black mamba wrote:
    Hey Mike,

    This is pretty impressive work. I'm curious about photo #1. It's obviously a panned shot but there's something unique about it, at least to my eyes. Parts of the car to the front, below, and rear of the driver are slightly blurred, yet his face seems much sharper in focus. Is that just an effect I'm perceiving that's not really there, or did you somehow selectively sharpen his face? I can't imagine that the chosen F-stop would have been the causative agent here because the whole car is pretty much on the same plane relative to your position.

    Thanks for sharing your visions with us.

    Tom

    Hi Tom, This was shot with a 17-55mm 2.8 lens at 1600iso. I was probably 15 feet away and just followed him as he passed. I did sharpen the image but It was just luck. I was very happy when I got home and noticed his head in focus.
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    mud390mud390 Registered Users Posts: 219 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    I love 2, 7, 12, and 19! Very nice set overall!

    Kris
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    bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    mikepenn wrote:
    My cropped square street photography of Philadelphia.

    There is some unquestionably wonderful stuff here - particularly 1, 12, and 13. But there are many others that I'm just not sure about because I don't know if I'm looking at street photography or home Photoshopping. I find myself not trusting 2 and 4, because I don't know if the mist/steam is real, or PS generated.

    I may be the only person who feels this way, but I'd love you to post some of the stuff with minimal PP so we can really see what you're seeing before you get home. mwink.gif
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    mikepennmikepenn Registered Users Posts: 214 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    bdcolen wrote:
    There is some unquestionably wonderful stuff here - particularly 1, 12, and 13. But there are many others that I'm just not sure about because I don't know if I'm looking at street photography or home Photoshopping. I find myself not trusting 2 and 4, because I don't know if the mist/steam is real, or PS generated.

    I may be the only person who feels this way, but I'd love you to post some of the stuff with minimal PP so we can really see what you're seeing before you get home. mwink.gif

    Neither is Photoshop generated, actually I wish i knew how to do that.
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    mikepennmikepenn Registered Users Posts: 214 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    bdcolen wrote:
    There is some unquestionably wonderful stuff here - particularly 1, 12, and 13. But there are many others that I'm just not sure about because I don't know if I'm looking at street photography or home Photoshopping. I find myself not trusting 2 and 4, because I don't know if the mist/steam is real, or PS generated.

    I may be the only person who feels this way, but I'd love you to post some of the stuff with minimal PP so we can really see what you're seeing before you get home. mwink.gif

    This is what my camera saw.

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    redleashredleash Registered Users Posts: 3,840 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    Wonderful series! I just love #13--right place, right time and you've definitely got a winning image, IMO. I really like your B&W treatment too--it adds to the grittiness of the street.

    Nice work.

    Lauren
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    ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    mikepenn wrote:
    This is what my camera saw.

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    I actually really dig these color shots both color and crop wise clap.gif
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    mikepennmikepenn Registered Users Posts: 214 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    ivar wrote:
    I actually really dig these color shots both color and crop wise clap.gif

    These aren't cropped, they are just jpegs of my camera's RAW images, Nothing was adjusted.


    But thank you
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    ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    mikepenn wrote:
    These aren't cropped, they are just jpegs of my camera's RAW images, Nothing was adjusted.


    But thank you
    Heh, yeah I figured that, but I didn't really knew how to say "lack of crop wise" without sounding like an idiot :D I think I prefer the original over the cropped I think, especially on the first of the two thumb.gif
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    pgaviriapgaviria Registered Users Posts: 78 Big grins
    edited March 10, 2010
    this is GREAT.
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    Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2010
    Wonderful series !
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